Assessment Of Knowledge And Perceptions Towards Medical Laboratory Quality Standards Among Medical Laboratory Managers And Undergraduate Students In Yemen
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Date
2014-02
Authors
Mohammed Taleb, Arwa Ahmed
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
The present study was conducted to assess the knowledge and perceptions of
undergraduate students of Sana’a University and Hodeidah University, as well as of
the managers of private and public medical laboratories towards medical laboratory
quality standards in Yemen.
A cross sectional study was conducted from May 5th, 2012 to April 23rd, 2013. The
study was divided into two parts. For the first part, a pre-validated self administrated
questionnaire containing 23 questions on socio-demographics, knowledge and
perceptions was administered to 57 and 99 consenting undergraduate students from
Sana’a University, and Hodeidah University, respectively. The second part of the
pre-validated questionnaire also included 37 questions on the socio-demographics,
knowledge and perceptions and was administered to 181 consenting medical
laboratory managers from private and public sector in Sana’a city. Statistical
Packages for the Social Sciences (SPSS for Windows version 19) and Microsoft
Excel were used for data analysis.
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Keywords
Medical Laboratory Quality Standards , Medical Laboratory Managers