Volume 27, Issue 137, July 2023

Knowledge and awareness of drugs’ overdose in emergency departments: Cross sectional study among health care workers and medical students in Hail city, Saudi Arabia

Amany Mohammed Khalifa¹, Fatimah Ali Nahar Alshammari², Fatima Ismail Alessa², Alya Ali Nahar Alshammari², Joud Ali A Albadan², Sukaina Kamal Alzedany², Amirah Homoud Khalaf Aledaili², Shatha Hamzah S Alreheili²

¹Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hail, Hail, KSA
ORCID: 0000-0002-0004-8333
²Faculty of Medicine, University of Hail, Hail, KSA

ABSTRACT

Introduction: According to WHO, there are about 275 million people (or 5.5% of the global population aged 15-64 years) used drugs at least once in 2019. About 36.3 million people suffered from drug use disorders in 2019. Drug over does is one of risk factor which leads to poor health and death. Aim: This cross-sectional study was carried out to assess of awareness of drug over does in ED among health care workers and medical students in Hail city in KSA. Methods: 205 of health care workers and medical students in Hail city in KSA were the subjects of the present study. The study was conducted in Hail, KSA from May till November 2022. Data entry and analysis were done by using SPSS version 25. Results: Saudi were the most participants173 (84.4%), almost half of them were 118 (57.6%) females. The middle age was the most addict age group 40 (19.5%). Opioid, Amphetamine and acetaminophen represented the highest percentage of drug overdose. Conclusions: The study concluded that the most common drug overdose was opioid. Some of the participants showed insufficient knowledge about naloxone. Thus, we recommended implementing method to raise the awareness to contribute in reducing burden of this problem.

Keywords: Hail, KSA, Overdose, Opioid, Amphetamine, acetaminophen

Medical Science, 2023, 27, e305ms2988

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v27i137/e305ms2988

Published: 21 July 2023