DISCUSSION
This work aimed to assess the level of HCW awareness to telehealth before and after an individualized orientation session was given. The percentage of awareness among HCWs before the educational program was 50.5% which is almost similar to a study conducted in Libya as they found that the awareness was 56% [10] . This similarity may be because both studies were conducted in developing countries of similar culture and infrastructure. The result is higher than a study conducted in Iran (39%), but less than a study was conducted in Pakistan where awareness was 80.7% [9,11] . This discrepancy may be attributed to the difference in the health sector setting where the studies were conducted; the study of Ashfaq and collaborators was conducted in public hospitals while the current study was conducted in a primary health sector [11].
In the current study gender did not affect awareness. Females constituted 90.8%; 50.5% of them were aware, this was very close to the awareness amongst males (50%). This result is different from Parvin and Shahjahan study who found that the gender is associated with awareness (p= 0.04), and this difference may be attributed to the different health sector levels of the different studies