Manarvi Irfan Anjum, Matta Nader Mahr, Yassin Abdulrahman
Department of Engineering Management, College of Engineering, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Endocrinology, Dallah Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Curr Diabetes Rev. 2018;14(5):451-457. doi: 10.2174/1573399813666170727125501.
Diabetes is one of the most chronic diseases prevalent in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Its number of patients have increased in past few decades. Best efforts to provide world class treatments to patients through public and private hospitals are in hand. However, feedback of practices observed by patients and hospitals is not being achieved to assess the treatment efficacy. Absence of an elaborated questionnaire in Arabic language is a major hurdle to seek information from patients' due to their limited knowledge of English language in which most of the survey questionnaire exist in internationally published literature.
In present research one such questionnaire was adapted and translated into Arabic language for survey of patients in a local hospital. A total of 191 patients participated in this investigation. Results of findings are analyzed on the basis of demographics, diagnostics, tests and various aspects of diabetes self-management by patients.
糖尿病是沙特阿拉伯王国最常见的慢性病之一。在过去几十年中，其患者数量有所增加。目前正通过公立和私立医院尽最大努力为患者提供世界级的治疗。然而，患者和医院所观察到的治疗实际情况的反馈未能用于评估治疗效果。由于大多数国际发表文献中的调查问卷是英文的，而患者英语水平有限，缺乏一份详尽的阿拉伯语调查问卷成为从患者那里获取信息的主要障碍。
在本研究中，对这样一份调查问卷进行了改编并翻译成阿拉伯语，用于对一家当地医院的患者进行调查。共有191名患者参与了此次调查。研究结果基于人口统计学、诊断、检测以及患者糖尿病自我管理的各个方面进行了分析。
