Factors Affecting Gonadal Shielding Use Among Technologists in California.
Purpose To assess the patient gonadal shielding practices of radiologic technologists in the state of California. Methods A survey invitation was sent via email to registered radiologic technologists in California to collect data to determine whether there were significant associations between gonad...
| Publicado en: | Radiologic Technology Vol. 95; no. 4; pp. 263 - 271 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Society of Radiologic Technologists
Mar/Apr2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=176022923&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 176022923 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 00338397 39J jtl: Radiologic Technology issn: 00338397 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar/Apr2024 vid: 95 iid: 4 pid: 7052 pub: American Society of Radiologic Technologists place: Alburquerque, New Mexico artinfo: ui: 176022923 176022923 176022923 176022923 ppf: 263 ppct: 8 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Factors Affecting Gonadal Shielding Use Among Technologists in California. aug: au: Ranada, Raymond T. Tilson, Elwin Clark, Kevin affil: Associate professor and clinical coordinator for the radiologic technology program at Cypress College in California sug: subj: Radiation Safety California Gonads Radiologic Technologists Human Surveys Sex Factors Age Factors Clinical Supervision Protocols Radiation Safety Equipment and Supplies Nonexperimental Studies Simple Random Sample Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software Inferential Statistics Chi Square Test T-Tests Confidence Intervals Educational Status Fetus Male Female Leadership Pelvis Radiography Radiography, Abdominal Infant Child, Preschool Child Adolescence Adult Middle Age Aged Aged, 80 and Over California Fetus, conception to birth Infant: 1-23 months Child, Preschool: 2-5 years Child: 6-12 years Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Aged, 80 & over Male Female ab: Purpose To assess the patient gonadal shielding practices of radiologic technologists in the state of California. Methods A survey invitation was sent via email to registered radiologic technologists in California to collect data to determine whether there were significant associations between gonadal shielding practices and various categorical variables, including patient sex, patient age, body part, availability of gonadal shielding protocols, availability of gonadal shields, and supervisor encouragement. Results There was a significant association between gonadal shielding protocol availability and supervisor encouragement of using gonadal shielding (P = .005) and between gonadal shielding availability and supervisor encouragement of using gonadal shielding (P < .001). Contrary to other studies in the literature, there was a significant difference between patient sex and the likelihood of gonadal shielding use, with participants indicating that they shield girls and women more often than they shield boys and men (P < .001). Discussion There was a sex-based difference in the frequency of gonadal shielding usage among the sample in this study. Also, supervisors providing accessible protocols and encouraging gonadal shielding can increase technologists' use of gonadal shielding. Conclusion Gonadal shielding is the current Code of Federal Regulations standard, although most professional and scientific organizations support discontinuing shielding during abdominal and pelvic radiography examinations. Shielding of these areas is more likely to occur with the availability of gonadal shielding, supervisory encouragement, protocols mandating shielding, and state regulations. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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