Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Behbahan Faculty of Medical Sciences, Behbahan, Iran
Review Article
Survey Radiation Health Awareness in Patients Referring to Behbahan Hospitals in south of Iran
Author(s): Omid Azadbakht, Amirmasoud Asadi, Parsa Faghani scandarkolaei, Zari Dehnavi, Mohsen shafiee and Ahmad Badeenezhad*
The present study targets to delve into the patients’ awareness of the risks of imaging experiments and also to identify the gaps existing in the radiation health training to the patients regarding the demographics such as age, education and etc. This research is a descriptive cross-sectional study done during 2019-2020. The study was conducted as a questionnaire on 319 patients selected randomly. The questionnaire consisted of 34 options in various areas including demographics, the awareness of different imaging modalities and also the patients' expectations of physicians about the training level required for the imaging modalities. The data were collected by question-answer method run by the researcher and analyzed by SPSS. The mean score of radiation health awareness in the study participants was estimated as 65.89% ± 14.37% and this rate was 67.15% ± 32.06%.. View More»
DOI:
10.37532/jhmr.2022. 4(2).109.
