Attitude and knowledge towards concussion among doctors and rugby players in Malaysia
Malaysia is faced with the inadequacy of research studies assessing the attitudes and knowledge towards concussions among doctors and rugby player. This lack of knowledge and unsafe attitudes can lead to short and long term sequelae if a CC is not managed correctly. The poor understanding and mis...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/56989/1/Wazien%20Wafa%20-%20e%2024.pdf |
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| Summary: | Malaysia is faced with the inadequacy of research studies assessing the attitudes
and knowledge towards concussions among doctors and rugby player. This lack of knowledge
and unsafe attitudes can lead to short and long term sequelae if a CC is not managed correctly.
The poor understanding and misconception regarding concussions could result in a lack of
proper reporting and lead to more players and doctors ignoring the injury. This is a cross sectional study among doctors and rugby players in Malaysia to assess
knowledge and attitude towards . Self-administered questionnaire, RoCKAS-ST is adopted
from previous study. Questionnaire was given to 285 rugby players and 217 doctors with return
rate of 63% and 23% respectively. Descriptive analysis and univariate ANOVA was used to
analyse the statistical response. Both doctors and rugby players recorded good attitude index compared to other
previous study however the knowledge index of rugby players in Malaysia is subpar. There is
significant differences in knowledge index among doctors and rugby players in Malaysia More training and education programme regarding should be done in Malaysia
to increase the level of knowledge and attitude in both group of rugby players and doctors
especially those in emergency medicine, family medicine, sports medicine, neurosurgery,
surgery and orthopaedics. |
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