Table 1.
Jordanian Physicians’ Knowledge and Awareness of Surveillance.
| Sector | Total | P value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ministry of Health | Teaching hospitals | ||||||
| The purpose of surveillance | |||||||
| Assess the trend of disease occurrence | 115 | 82.7 | 79 | 94.0 | 194 | 87.0 | .015 |
| Prevent and control diseases | 102 | 73.4 | 55 | 65.5 | 157 | 70.4 | .210 |
| Detect and notify disease outbreaks | 102 | 73.4 | 72 | 85.7 | 174 | 78.0 | .031 |
| Health education and advocacy | 86 | 61.9 | 57 | 67.9 | 143 | 64.1 | .366 |
| Research purpose | 96 | 69.1 | 68 | 81.0 | 164 | 73.5 | .051 |
| Determine the prevalence of disease | 104 | 74.8 | 71 | 84.5 | 175 | 78.5 | .088 |
| Sources of public health surveillance data | .016 | ||||||
| Controlled clinical trials | 28 | 20.1 | 6 | 7.1 | 34 | 15.2 | |
| Case studies | 10 | 7.2 | 10 | 11.9 | 20 | 9.0 | |
| Direct observations | 34 | 24.5 | 15 | 17.9 | 49 | 22.0 | |
| Population surveys and case reporting | 67 | 48.2 | 53 | 63.1 | 120 | 53.8 | |
| Surveillance data must be | .244 | ||||||
| Rapidly collected | 15 | 10.8 | 4 | 4.8 | 19 | 8.5 | |
| Use simple case definitions | 24 | 17.3 | 19 | 22.6 | 43 | 19.3 | |
| Provide very precise estimates | 28 | 20.1 | 22 | 26.2 | 50 | 22.4 | |
| Rapidly collected and use simple case definitions | 72 | 51.8 | 39 | 46.4 | 111 | 49.8 | |
| Physician’s role in public health surveillance | |||||||
| Diagnosis and reporting | 90 | 64.7 | 63 | 75.0 | 153 | 68.6 | .110 |
| Collect the data and analyze it | 68 | 48.9 | 49 | 58.3 | 117 | 52.5 | .173 |
| Provide recommendation on the disease | 57 | 41.0 | 34 | 40.5 | 91 | 40.8 | .938 |
| Believe in that reporting an event to surveillance system is a professional obligation | 73 | 52.5 | 44 | 52.4 | 117 | 52.5 | .118 |