Effect of the National Health Education Program among Saudi Patients in Saudi Arabia Primary Health Care Centers, 2019

Abstract

Health education (HE) is important in improving public health. Globally, the evaluation HE quality is an important obstacle to better interventions, and wider acknowledgment of As a result, the purpose of this research is to improve the quality of health education services by providing a current perspective on current evidence on the effect of the HE national program in primary health care centres (PHCCs) through the following objectives: To calculate the frequency of receiving HE To measure patient satisfaction with the provided HE service. To assess patient self-control and its determinants in chronic diseases. An analytical cross section study targeted randomly selected 1590 Saudi PHCCs visitors from the main five regions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Through exit interview using a pretested, well-structured questionnaire composed of four parts. The majority of participants were females (73.5%) and married (69.1). Of those, 64.9% had chronic diseases. The frequency of receiving HE was 51.1%. The health-educated patients significantly had better self-chronic disease control and an improvement in health status. The HECs shows a significant self-patient control of chronic diseases and patient satisfaction than HE services. HE interventions must be multidimensional to be effective in improving patients’ clinical outcomes through the increase and maintenance of healthy behaviours.

Keywords

• health education
• saudi patients
• primary health care centres
• saudi arabia