Compliance towards clinic follow-up and its related factors among cerebral-palsied children at Hospital Ipoh, Perak, 1994

A cross-sectional study on compliance towards clinic follow-up and its related factors was conducted at the Paediatric Clinic of Ipoh Hospital from December 1993 to March 1994. All 124 Cerebral-palsied children within the age limit of 3-12 years, attending the clinic and have been registered for at...

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Main Authors:	Zaharah Yaacob, Hanafiah Mohd. Salleh
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Language:	English
Published:	Department Of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2006
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spelling	ukm-44832016-12-14T06:36:09Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4483/ Compliance towards clinic follow-up and its related factors among cerebral-palsied children at Hospital Ipoh, Perak, 1994 Zaharah Yaacob, Hanafiah Mohd. Salleh, A cross-sectional study on compliance towards clinic follow-up and its related factors was conducted at the Paediatric Clinic of Ipoh Hospital from December 1993 to March 1994. All 124 Cerebral-palsied children within the age limit of 3-12 years, attending the clinic and have been registered for at least one year before the study period participated in this study. Information were obtained from their guardian via a pre-tested guided questionaire. The result of the study showed that only 37.9% of the sample has good compliance. The distribution of good compliance was highest among the Malays (50%), followed by the Chinese (22.8%) and the lowest among the Indians (21%). Compliance was also found to be significantly associated with ethnicity, parental educational status and income (p<0.05). On the other hand compliance was not associated with functional dependency of the cerebral-palsied chiloren or parental practice in relation to care of the handicapped children. In conclusion, compliance of clinic follow-up in the studied population is lowand it is associated with socioeconomic factors. Poor compliance is still a problem. Better identification of the group with poor compliance is recommended in order to provide room for improvement. Department Of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2006 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4483/1/Vol12%281%29-Rizal.pdf Zaharah Yaacob, and Hanafiah Mohd. Salleh, (2006) Compliance towards clinic follow-up and its related factors among cerebral-palsied children at Hospital Ipoh, Perak, 1994. Jurnal Kesihatan Masyarakat, 12 (1). ISSN 1675-1663 http://www.communityhealthjournal.org/detailarticle.asp?id=131&issue=Vol12(1):2006
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description	A cross-sectional study on compliance towards clinic follow-up and its related factors was conducted at the Paediatric Clinic of Ipoh Hospital from December 1993 to March 1994. All 124 Cerebral-palsied children within the age limit of 3-12 years, attending the clinic and have been registered for at least one year before the study period participated in this study. Information were obtained from their guardian via a pre-tested guided questionaire. The result of the study showed that only 37.9% of the sample has good compliance. The distribution of good compliance was highest among the Malays (50%), followed by the Chinese (22.8%) and the lowest among the Indians (21%). Compliance was also found to be significantly associated with ethnicity, parental educational status and income (p<0.05). On the other hand compliance was not associated with functional dependency of the cerebral-palsied chiloren or parental practice in relation to care of the handicapped children. In conclusion, compliance of clinic follow-up in the studied population is lowand it is associated with socioeconomic factors. Poor compliance is still a problem. Better identification of the group with poor compliance is recommended in order to provide room for improvement.
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author	Zaharah Yaacob, Hanafiah Mohd. Salleh,
spellingShingle	Zaharah Yaacob, Hanafiah Mohd. Salleh, Compliance towards clinic follow-up and its related factors among cerebral-palsied children at Hospital Ipoh, Perak, 1994
author_facet	Zaharah Yaacob, Hanafiah Mohd. Salleh,
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title	Compliance towards clinic follow-up and its related factors among cerebral-palsied children at Hospital Ipoh, Perak, 1994
title_short	Compliance towards clinic follow-up and its related factors among cerebral-palsied children at Hospital Ipoh, Perak, 1994
title_full	Compliance towards clinic follow-up and its related factors among cerebral-palsied children at Hospital Ipoh, Perak, 1994
title_fullStr	Compliance towards clinic follow-up and its related factors among cerebral-palsied children at Hospital Ipoh, Perak, 1994
title_full_unstemmed	Compliance towards clinic follow-up and its related factors among cerebral-palsied children at Hospital Ipoh, Perak, 1994
title_sort	compliance towards clinic follow-up and its related factors among cerebral-palsied children at hospital ipoh, perak, 1994
publisher	Department Of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2006
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Compliance towards clinic follow-up and its related factors among cerebral-palsied children at Hospital Ipoh, Perak, 1994

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