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Keywords:
Professional issues, Radiographers, Management, CT, MR, Ultrasound, Education, Health policy and practice, Technical aspects, Education and training, Quality assurance, Patterns of Care
Authors:
P. Ferreira1, R. P. P. Almeida1, A. F. Abrantes1, L. P. Ribeiro1, N. F. Pinto1, K. B. Azevedo2, J. P. Pinheiro1; 1Faro/PT, 2Faro, EU/PT
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2017/B-0324
Methods and materials
A quantitative,
descriptive and non-experimental study was performed to access the level of knowledge.
A self-applied questionnaire developed by Chesson,
Mckenzie and Mathers (2001) in UK was validated for the Portuguese population with permission of the authors and assigned to 143 outpatients who perfomed US (55),
CT (48) and MRI (40) examinations between two healthcare providers (public and private sector).
The questionnaire was divided in two sections: on for the demographics characteristics and another one composed by questions related to the examinations.
The second section included 15 main questions related to general aspects of the examinations,
were the patients could answer "True",
"False" or "Don’t Know" and were interpreted and statistically analysed through descriptive statistics,
Phi and Cramer’s V tests.
The same questionnaire was applied to the three modalities so that it could be compared posteriorly with the study “What do patients know about ultrassound,
CT and MRI?” from Chesson,
Mckenzie,
& Mathers (2001).
Statistics were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences V.17 (SPSS V.17).