Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives on Newborn Genomic Screening in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi healthcare professionals' self-reported knowledge and attitudes on genomic newborn screening (gNBS) from a cross-sectional survey. The dataset includes survey results from public and private facilities, analyzed with descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, and logistic regression. It was authored by Aminu S. Abdullahi and last updated in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling factors influencing healthcare professional support for gNBS based on reported knowledge and attitudes.
• Analyzing perceived barriers to gNBS implementation based on cited challenges like cost and ethical concerns.
• Identifying priority conditions for expanded screening programs based on mentions of SCID, DMD, and SMA.

Strengths

• Includes specific statistical results, such as 46% of professionals demonstrating good self-reported knowledge of gNBS.
• Identifies concrete implementation barriers, including cost, lack of guidelines, and ethical concerns like genetic privacy.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse and redistribution.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small (712.8 KB), indicating limited scope, likely containing the survey instrument and analysis rather than raw respondent data.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey distributed via random and snowball sampling.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 06:02:05; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates