Background:The global trend towards an increasing aging population demands for adequate geriatric medical care services to cater for health needs of the aging population seeking clinical care in hospitals. In Uganda, geriatric care as a specialty in medicine is still at infancy stage, and this is further worsened by the fact that the current curricula followed in training health workers lacks a component dedicated to elderly care. There is therefore need to assess knowledge, attitudes and treatment practices of medical doctors towards clinical care for elderly persons. Objective:We aimed to assess knowledge, attitudes and treatment practices of medical doctors towards care for elderly persons accessing clinical care services at hospitals in Kampala.Methods: We conducted a cross sectional descriptive study between April and June 2019 at outpatient's clinics, inpatients wards and non-communicable disease clinics at selected hospitals in Kampala Capital City Authority Uganda. All medical doctors providing direct clinical care to elderly persons at the selected hospitals and meeting the inclusion criteria were selected using a multi stage clusters ampling method. Those who consented were interviewed using a pre-tested semi structured questionnaire. The Knowledge about Older Persons-Q (KOP-Q) scale and the Older People in Acute Care Survey-United States (OPACS-US) scale were utilized, and responses measured on a Likert scale coded and entered into Microsoft Excel 2010, cleaned and then exported to STATA 13 for analysis. A generalized linear model was used with the family of Poisson and log link with robust standard error to provide prevalence ratio as a measure of association with corresponding 95% confidence intervals and p-values. Ethical clearance was obtained from the respective hospital Institutional Review Boards, Higher Degrees Research and Ethics Committee at
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