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Cureus | Patient Perspective in Saudi Arabia: What Qualities Make a Good and Competent Psychiatrist?

Introduction

The good qualities of a psychiatrist can vary when asking a psychiatrist, a resident, a student, or even a patient. The patient’s perspective, however, is of utmost importance and can be extremely unique. Our study aims to visualize and analyze the perspective of outpatients of the psychiatric department at King Fahad Hospital University on what qualities make a good and competent psychiatrist. As psychiatric medicine depends a lot on the psychological aspect, it yields high importance on studying how patients perceive and see their doctors in different regions of the world. For this reason, we conducted our study in Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

Materials and methods

A self-structured questionnaire named “What Qualities Make a Good and Competent Psychiatrist?” was developed and used to achieve the study objectives. It encompasses six sections: patients’ personal data and demographics, patients’ medical data, psychiatrists’ p ....

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