Compliance of Hba1c Test in Three Selected MOH Primary Health Care Centers of Makkah
Received Date: Nov 20, 2017 / Accepted Date: Dec 06, 2017 / Published Date: Dec 11, 2017
Abstract
Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the compliance of HbA1c Test in registered diabetic patients of three selected PHC Centers of Makkah.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of medical records of registered Saudi patients with type 2 diabetes to know the compliance of HbA1c in three randomly selected MOH PHC Centers. Sample size calculated was 354 patients with confidence level of 95% and confidence interval of 5. Data was processed on Microsoft Excel and SPSS-23 software.
Results: Overall the age range was 21-79 (58) years and a mean of +/- SD of 56.67 +/- 11.97.Hb A1C test was done in 292 (82.48%) patients. Overall PHCs HbA1c compliance rate was 38.9%. The compliance at PHC Rusaifah, Zahraa and Jarwal was 47.5%, 41.3% and 17.6% respectively (p<0.001).
Conclusion: Very low compliance rate of HbA1c test in Primary Health Centers indicate non seriousness in our study group.
Keywords: HbA1c test; Compliance; Diabetes type 2 patients; PHC centers
Citation: Siddqui MS, Siddqui MK, Zakaria M, Ahmad Ali M, Band B (2017) Compliance of Hba1c Test in Three Selected MOH Primary Health Care Centers of Makkah. J Community Med Health Educ 7: 571. Doi: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000571
Copyright: ©2017 Siddqui MS, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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