Community Health Needs Assessment of Primary Healthcare in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Global journal on quality and safety in healthcare Pub Date : 2024-09-03 eCollection Date: 2024-11-01 DOI:10.36401/JQSH-24-13
Abderrahmane Derkaoui, Sami A AlShammary, Yacoub Abuzied, Alanoud Alshalawi, Yahya AlAsseri, Khalil Alshammari, Khalid I Alqumizi, Ahmad Bin Nasser
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Introduction: Continuous assessment of community health needs is essential to predict, recognize, and act on healthcare issues. Conducting community health needs assessments (CHNAs) in Saudi Arabia has become a priority to overcome the current healthcare challenges and keep pace with the Saudi Arabia 2030 vision. Studies reporting community health needs in Saudi Arabia regions are limited despite the high incidence of chronic diseases. This study aims to understand the community's health problems and the range of healthy behaviors and determine the priority health problems.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study based on the adults in Primary Health Care Centers in Hail, Northern Saudi Arabia, by using the CHNA standard questionnaire. In addition to the demographic information, the questionnaire collects data on personal health status, the health status of adults and children, health facilities access information, receiving of healthcare procedures, traveling for healthcare, source of medical information, safety measures and behaviors, health problems, childcare (special needs), and perceived community problems.

Results: In all, 336 individuals were approached to participate in this study; 303 agreed to participate (response rate: 90%). The analysis comprised 276 individuals after eliminating 27 who did not fulfill the age inclusion criteria or had missing gender data. Of these, 107 (38.8%) were men and 169 (61.2%) were women. Our data revealed that almost half of the participants, 135 (52.9%) constantly or 107 (42%) occasionally, were able to visit the doctors when needed.

Conclusion: Our findings reported positive health behaviors and good accessibility to healthcare services when needed. However, the study findings also revealed healthcare challenges that required urgent action from Hail healthcare leaders. Developing healthcare strategies, screening/prevention programs, and changing healthcare policies in the Hail region are needed to control and prevent health problems and improve the population's health.

沙特阿拉伯初级医疗保健的社区健康需求评估:横断面研究。
导言:持续评估社区健康需求对于预测、认识和解决医疗保健问题至关重要。在沙特阿拉伯,开展社区健康需求评估(CHNAs)已成为克服当前医疗保健挑战、跟上沙特阿拉伯 2030 愿景步伐的当务之急。尽管慢性病的发病率很高,但报告沙特阿拉伯地区社区健康需求的研究却很有限。本研究旨在了解社区的健康问题和健康行为范围,并确定重点健康问题:我们使用 CHNA 标准问卷对沙特阿拉伯北部海尔初级卫生保健中心的成年人进行了横断面研究。除人口统计学信息外,问卷还收集了有关个人健康状况、成人和儿童健康状况、医疗设施使用信息、接受医疗程序、医疗旅行、医疗信息来源、安全措施和行为、健康问题、儿童保育(特殊需求)以及感知的社区问题等方面的数据:本研究共接触了 336 人,其中 303 人同意参与(回复率:90%)。在剔除 27 名不符合年龄纳入标准或性别数据缺失的受访者后,共有 276 人参与了分析。其中 107 人(38.8%)为男性,169 人(61.2%)为女性。我们的数据显示,几乎一半的参与者(135 人(52.9%)经常或 107 人(42%)偶尔能够在需要时去看医生:我们的研究结果表明,参与者的健康行为是积极的,在需要时能够很好地获得医疗服务。然而,研究结果也揭示了医疗保健方面的挑战,需要海尔医疗保健领导者采取紧急行动。海尔地区需要制定医疗保健战略、筛查/预防计划,并改变医疗保健政策,以控制和预防健康问题,提高人口健康水平。
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