Obstructive sleep apnea knowledge and attitudes among recent medical graduates training and practicing physicians in latin America

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Methods: Recent medical graduates completed the Spanish translation of the OSA Knowledge and Attitudes (OSAKA) questionnaire at the 2013 national primary-care residency-placement meeting in Ecuador. The OSAKA includes 18 knowledge and five attitudinal items about OSA. We compared recent graduates’ data with data collected in 2010-2011 from practicing physicians using chi-square tests of associations among categorical variables and analysis of variance of differences in mean knowledge and attitude scores. Unadjusted logistic regression models tested the odds that recent graduates (vs. practicing physicians) answered each item correctly. Results: Of 289 recent graduates, 153 (52.9%) were male, and mean age was 25.8 years. Although mean knowledge was low overall, scores were lower for recent graduates than for the 367 practicing physicians (53.4% vs. 60.4%; p< 0.001). Practicing physicians …

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2017

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