DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2016.v04i07.031

Pages: 2460-2463

Disorders of fluid and electrolyte are common in public and a proper understanding of the physiological changes in body water and solute is essential. The present study was planned to study the Knowledge, Attitude and practice of general medical practitioners and specialty physicians regarding diseases of electrolyte imbalances. The study population was consisting of the 67 general medical practitioners from the rural as well as urban areas and 29 specialty medical practitioners having specialization in the subject of medicine. The study was done with the help of 15 specially prepared questionnaires validated by doing pilot study. On comparison of the knowledge, attitude and practice questionnaires scores of the general medical practitioners and specialty physicians, it was found that the specialty physicians (13.10 ± 1.73) were having more of the scores of the knowledge and attitude than that of the general medical practitioners (9.50 ± 1.64) and the difference was found to be statistically significant. (Student’s t test, p<0.001). Therefore it was found that though the general practitioners were having the knowledge regarding the diseases of electrolyte imbalances; it was less than that of the other specialty practitioners.