DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i01.005

Pages: 21-31

Radiation protection is very important issue. This study aimed to evaluate and asses the knowledge and performance of radiation protection during hospital practice among the radiology staff in radiology department in Taif Hospitals, King Abdul Aziz Specialist Hospital, King Faisal Hospital and Alhada military Hospital. A total of 50 radiographers participated in this study, using questionnaire and observation check list in knowledge about What Radiation protection include (ionizing radiation ) effective shielding material (lead ) , meaning of justification , the meaning of radiation dose limit , the meaning of optimization , time and distance so this study revealed that 98% of studied sample were of good knowledge about What Radiation protection include (ionizing radiation), 66% answer what ionizing radiation include ( CT) , 100 % full percentage knows the most effective shielding material (lead ) . 72 % of the sample knows the meaning of justification, 86% knows the meaning of limitation and 84% knows the meaning of optimization, 76% of them have a good knowledge about radiation protection rules (shielding, time and distance). so the knowledge and the awareness of workers about radiation protection in king Faisal , king Abdulaziz and Al-hada hospitals is very good and at high level. Finally poor performance and good performance are equal (50 %). There is a high significant difference between different hospitals regarding poor performance (p=0.000). The worst hospital was King Faisal Hospital with 80% poor performance, followed by Al-Hada Hospital with 42.9% poor performance and the last one was King Abdel Aziz Hospital with 28.6% poor performance. A similar study was done before in Al Taif hospitals also conduct that, radiographers have a good knowledge but poor performance.