Assessment of Parents’ Satisfaction with Paediatric Surgery Services at a Tertiary Hospital in South West Nigeria: A Quality Control Check

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dc.contributor.authorAdemuyiwa, AO
dc.contributor.authorMosaku, SK
dc.contributor.authorOgbolu, RE
dc.contributor.authorOshodi, YO
dc.contributor.authorBode, CO
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-28T09:07:07Z
dc.date.available2022-09-28T09:07:07Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionScholarly articleen_US
dc.description.abstractBackground: Patient satisfaction is an important link in the chain of patient-physician interaction, patient care experience and patient health outcome. Patient satisfaction is relevant in the evaluation of quality of services received in health institutions based in low and middle income countries, and can provide important feedback for service improvement in such resource-poor settings. Aim: This study aimed to examine the patient’s level of satisfaction with pediatric surgery services in a Teaching Hospital. Subjects and Methods: Setting: Paediatric Surgery Unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Prospective questionnaire based survey. Consenting literate parents of paediatric post-op patients were serially recruited from the pediatric surgery unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. The consent of the Institution’s Research Ethics’ Committee was sought and obtained. Using a general sociodemographic questionnaire and the patient satisfaction with services scale, patient experiences were obtained. Results were expressed as simple percentages and presented in tables. Results: One hundred and thirty-four post-op cases participated in this study. These participants were parents of children with varied surgical conditions such as: hernia (24.6%, 33/134), hydrocoele (8.2%, 11/134), among other conditions. Majority of the cases were follow-up cases (75.4%, 101/134), compared to 24.6% being new cases. Most respondents (parents/guardians) rated the ‘assistance from the records officer’ as good/ very good/excellent (82.1%, 110/134), while 14.9% (20/134) rated it as fair/poor. Respondents were quite satisfied with the ‘amount of information given about the health problem’ with 82.9% (111/134) rating it as good/very good/excellent and 8.2% (11/134) as fair/poor. The ‘suitability of the treatment plan to needs was considered good/very good/excellent by 61.9% and fair/poor by 9.0%. However, the ‘overall quality of care’ was rated as fair/poor in 12.0%, and good/very good/excellent by 88.0% of respondents. Conclusion: In conclusion, the study serves as a useful feedback tool which provides important information on certain aspects of patient satisfaction, it identifies aspects which respondents find less satisfying and as such need improvement.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAdemuyiwa AO, Mosaku SK, Ogbolu RE, Oshodi YO, Bode CO. Assessment of Parents’ Satisfaction with Paediatric Surgery Services at a Tertiary Hospital in South West Nigeria: A Quality Control Check. Ann Med Health Sci Res. 2017;7:42-46.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/11576
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectpatient-physician interactionen_US
dc.subjectPatient satisfactionen_US
dc.subjectHealth institutionsen_US
dc.subjectQuality of servicesen_US
dc.subjectPediatric surgery servicesen_US
dc.subjectPatient's level of satisfactionen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::MEDICINE::Surgeryen_US
dc.titleAssessment of Parents’ Satisfaction with Paediatric Surgery Services at a Tertiary Hospital in South West Nigeria: A Quality Control Checken_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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