Medical practitioners� awareness and knowledge on the use of hyaluronic acid in chronic wound care

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Event Abstract Back to Event Medical practitioners’ awareness and knowledge on the use of hyaluronic acid in chronic wound care Gayatri T. Jeevananthan1, Farahnaz Amini1, Sharmanee Thiagarajah1 and Tan C. Keat1* 1 UCSI University, School of Healthy Aging, Medical Aesthetic and Regenerative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Malaysia Chronic wounds have a slow healing rate due to presence of senescent fibroblasts on their ulcer bedsand failures at cellular proliferations, migrations, and extracellular matrix synthesize (1). It have been shown that hyaluronic acid (HA) can restore aged skin fibroblasts at cellular proliferation and extracellular matrix synthesis (2). Chronic wound is very commonly seen in the government clinics in Malaysia. However, the available and current conventional treatment is not effective for all patients. This study is aimed to ascertain awareness and level of knowledge of medical practitioners on usage of HA in wound care. A cross sectional survey is done using questionnaires which are designed by research team. Inclusion criteria are medical practitioners working in Klang and speak English. The questionnaire had 47 questions in 5 section. Score ‘1’ was given to each correct answer and score ‘0’ was given for each wrong answer as well as the answer of “unsure”. Accordingly, the knowledge levels were recorded as follows: 16-24 points having good level of knowledge; 9-15 points having moderate level of knowledge, 0-8 points having poor level of knowledge. The ethics approval was obtained from UCSI ethics committee. A total of 100 respondents participated in this study (Table 1). About 51% respondents are not aware that HA can be used in wound care. No significant association between demographic factors and level of knowledge is observed (Table 2). A total of 84% doctors are willing to recommend patients to purchase hyaluronic acid over the counter for wound care .Our results showed that the level of knowledge about usage of HA as a new modality for wound care is low among medical practitioners in Malaysia. This result is in concordance with previous study which has shown conventional wound cares are still well accepted and standard among healthcare providers (3). In conclusion, moderate level of knowledge with a high level of perception on usage of HA for wound care was observed amongst the study participants. Figure 1 Figure 2 Acknowledgements This work was supported by UCSI University. Keywords: Awareness, Hyaluronic Acid, knowledge, Chronic wound care, bacterial Conference: 6th Malaysian Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Scientific Meeting (6th MTERMS) 2016 and 2nd Malaysian Stem Cell Meeting, Seberang Jaya, Penang, Malaysia, 17 Nov - 18 Nov, 2016. Presentation Type: Poster Topic: Stem cells and Regenerative Medicine Citation: Jeevananthan GT, Amini F, Thiagarajah S and Keat TC (2016). Medical practitioners’ awareness and knowledge on the use of hyaluronic acid in chronic wound care. Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol. Conference Abstract: 6th Malaysian Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Scientific Meeting (6th MTERMS) 2016 and 2nd Malaysian Stem Cell Meeting. doi: 10.3389/conf.FBIOE.2016.02.00020 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 08 Dec 2016; Published Online: 19 Dec 2016. * Correspondence: Dr. Tan C Keat, UCSI University, School of Healthy Aging, Medical Aesthetic and Regenerative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Cheras, Selangor, 56000, Malaysia, cktan@ucsiuniversity.edu.my Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Gayatri T Jeevananthan Farahnaz Amini Sharmanee Thiagarajah Tan C Keat Google Gayatri T Jeevananthan Farahnaz Amini Sharmanee Thiagarajah Tan C Keat Google Scholar Gayatri T Jeevananthan Farahnaz Amini Sharmanee Thiagarajah Tan C Keat PubMed Gayatri T Jeevananthan Farahnaz Amini Sharmanee Thiagarajah Tan C Keat Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.