Volume 27, Issue 137, July 2023

Awareness of Diabetic Ketoacidosis among senior year medical students in Al-Qassim Universities KSA: A cross-sectional study

Tarek A Elghamrawy¹, Raghad Ibrahim Alhumaidan², Farah Abdullah Alassaf², Abdulmajeed Abdulaziz Alfouzan², Hind Naif Alanazi³, Ebtisam Fahad Alotaibi⁴, Ibrahim Ahmad Almohaimeed²

¹Associate Professor of Anatomy & Physiology, Riyadh Elm University, Saudi Arabia/Specialty: Human Anatomy, Saudi Arabia
²MBBS Student at Al-Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
³MBBS Student at Northern border University, Saudi Arabia
⁴MBBS Student at Taif University, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Background: The management of Diabetes Mellitus and its important complication Diabetic Ketoacidosis is very important for students soon to be physicians. We in this study will investigate their awareness and knowledge through a cross-sectional pre-validated Questionnaire in senior students at Qassim Universities. Methods: This study is cross-sectional; online questionnaire-based observational study conducted at Qassim Universities to measure their knowledge regarding diabetic ketoacidosis. The respondents were senior final-year MBBS students at that college, and the data were collected and analyzed statistically. Results: Among the 292 senior medical students from Al-Qassim Universities, who participated in the study, 45.2% were male and majority of participants were in their fifth year (50.7%). Moreover, 81.5% of the 292 senior medical students from Al-Qassim Universities who participated in the study had sufficient knowledge of diabetic ketoacidosis. There is a weak association between gender and inadequate knowledge (OR=1.59, 95% CI (0.89, 2.83), P=0.137). Unaizah College of Medicine had the highest proportion of students with enough knowledge (86.4%), whereas Sulaiman Al-Rajhi University had the lowest proportion of students with inadequate knowledge (35.6 percent). There were no gender or academic year variations in knowledge (p=0.091 and p=0.055, respectively). Conclusion: It could be concluded from the current study that most of the students had basic knowledge regarding the definition and diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, DKA, and their management. In addition, our study recommends preparing of some interventions to increase the level of awareness among senior medical students as preparing workshops.

Keywords: Diabetes mellitus, Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Awareness, Knowledge

Medical Science, 2023, 27, e291ms3057

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v27i137/e291ms3057

Published: 12 July 2023