KNOWLEDGE & SATISFACTION OF CAREGIVER OF CHILDREN WITH ENDOCRINE DISEASES ATTENDING SOME ENDOCRINE CENTERS IN BAGHDAD, 2025

Background: A comprehensive Knowledge & Attitude assessment can identify the lack of disorder related knowledge, misconceptions that lead to non-adherence, and psychosocial barriers to high quality care. Objectives: Assess knowledge & Satisfaction of Caregiver of Children with Endocrine Diseases Attending Some Endocrine Centers in Baghdad also, Find the association of caregivers’ overall satisfaction with their and their children demographic variables. Method & subjects: A cross-section study with analytic elements, conducted in 2025, by interviewing the caregiver of the children attending 3 Specialized endocrinology and diabetes centers in Baghdad city. Results: caregivers enrolled were 364, of child with diabetes mellitus 157(43.1 %), of child with growth hormone diseases121(33.2%), while 86(23.6 %) of child with thyroid diseases, the children age with mean & standard dev. (9.98 ± 3.013), participants mostly 293(80.5%) had good-satisfaction about the endocrine center, Health education received in the endocrine centers helped in giving-treatment 225(61.8 %), food and nutrition 196(53.8 %), sleeping and sports in 87(23.9 %), also regular health-visiting 54(14.3 %), and psychological-health 9(2.5%). the endocrine centre 346(95.1%) is the main information-source, there is a significant association between the caregiver overall-satisfaction and their Job, Child-relation, and educational-level (P-value ≤ 0.05), opposite to age, marital-status of the child ‘s parents, residency, and Family month-income. Conclusion: caregivers had high levels of satisfaction with healthcare service. despite this favorable perception, caregivers` self-rated knowledge regarding their child`s condition remained mostly neutral to poor.