Statistics

Pathology

Geometry

Biology

Ordered logit

Gluten free

Gastroenterology

Paleontology

Logistic regression

Cohen's kappa

Gluten

Medicine

Cross-sectional study

Test (biology)

Kappa

Disease

Internal medicine

Mathematics

Journal of Molecular Virology and Immunology

Celiac disease is a genetic in origin, systemic autoimmune disease that can be occur at any stage of life. The onset of the disease is triggered by dietary intake of wheat, barley and rye containing gluten prolamins. The prevalence of the disease is around 1% and this rate is expected to increase as awareness increases. Due to celiac disease mimicking the symptoms of other diseases and being known as a rare disease, the diagnosis rate is low, and patients are often diagnosed late. In this study, we evaluated the awareness rates of physicians and investigated the effect of celiac training on awareness rate. Our research is a pre-test and post-test compatibility study prepared in cross-sectional style. Family physicians who participated in the meeting on May 9, 2019, Celiac Day were included in our study. The pre-test was distributed to physicians just before the meeting. A training module on celiac disease was presented to the participants and a final test was performed afterwards. When the pre-test and post-t...

Awareness of Physicians on Celiac Disease and the Effect of Education