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The healthcare professionals\u2019 (in this context referring to medical doctors at all levels) awareness of imaging modalities associated with ionizing radiation is essential to ensure optimal patient management of cooperation in dealing with radiation exposure. Therefore, the present study is aimed to evaluate the awareness of healthcare professionals on medical imaging-related radiation exposure in the pediatric population in our center, Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among healthcare professionals using self-administered validated questionnaires in a university hospital for a duration of seven months. Healthcare professionals of all levels participated in this survey. Results: A total of 145 healthcare professionals participated in this study. More than half of the respondents are house officers, 57.2% (n = 83). Results indicated that only 6 out of 145 healthcare professionals who participated in this survey had attended a radiation protection course. This survey showed that 37.2% of the respondents were unaware that chest radiographs would expose patients to ionizing radiation. Finally, results also indicated that senior doctors (21 out of 24 participants) showed better awareness of radiation protection knowledge. Conclusions: In general, healthcare professionals in our institution are inadequate in awareness of medical radiation exposure, particularly among house officers. However, the awareness of radiation safety and exposure improves with the number of years of clinical practice. We propose that some younger healthcare professionals do not take radiation safety seriously. Moreover, we would like to suggest all healthcare professionals must attend a radiation safety course, as we expect this will improve patient outcomes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph19106260","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,21]],"date-time":"2022-05-21T09:18:08Z","timestamp":1653124688000},"page":"6260","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Awareness of Medical Doctors in Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia on Diagnostic Radiological Examination Related Radiation Exposure in the Pediatric Population"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4748-739X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chee Guan","family":"Ng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia"},{"name":"Hospital Wanita Dan Kanak-Kanak Kuala Lumpur, Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur 50586, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6769-0603","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hanani Abdul","family":"Manan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia"},{"name":"Functional Image Processing Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia"},{"name":"Department of Radiology and Intervency, Hospital Pakar Kanak-Kanak (Specialist Children Hospital), University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7142-3794","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Faizah","family":"Mohd Zaki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia"},{"name":"Department of Radiology and Intervency, Hospital Pakar Kanak-Kanak (Specialist Children Hospital), University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rozman","family":"Zakaria","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"S122","DOI":"10.1001\/dmp.2011.21","article-title":"Long-term radiation-related health effects in a unique human population: Lessons learned from the atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima and nagasaki","volume":"5","author":"Douple","year":"2011","journal-title":"Disaster Med. 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