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Abstract
Summary and Conclusion
The incidence of diabetes is rising throughout the world, by 2025 it is anticipated that there will be 415 million diabetics all over the globe and more than 75 percent of the diabetics will be in the developing countries. The primary care provider, general practitioner (GP) or family physician (FP), has a unique role in the team, particularly with regard to care and education of people with diabetes. Because the primary care physicians working at the different primary health care facilities are in the first line of treatment, their knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) is the main determinant in managing and controlling diabetes. This might be a rational to build up the capacities required for reasonable care of diabetics attending this sector of the health care delivery system.
The aim of this work is to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) of primary health care physicians regarding management of diabetics and to find-out gaps between the practices of primary health care physicians and the already established national and international guidelines.
The study was conducted in a randomly selected 38 primary health care centers in Gharbia Governorate 11 of which were urban and 27 were rural. The chosen rural facilities were affiliated to the following Gharbia Governorate centers as follows: 13 in Tanta, 5 in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, 5 in Kafr El-Zyat and 4 in El Santa.
The selected urban primary health care facilities were as follows: 5 in Tanta city, 3 in El-Mahalla El-Kubra city, 1 Kafr El-Zyat city and 2 in El- Santa health city.
The target subjects were the primary health care physicians working in the randomly selected urban and rural primary health care facilities and agreed to participate in the study.