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[What is the attitude of doctors to the current model of primary care?]
B Llor Esteban1, P J Saturno Hernández, J J Gascón Canovas
1Departamento de Enfermería, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. bllor@um.es
Objectives:
To determine the attitude of doctors towards the current model of primary care and to calculate its relationship with social and demographic and/or work variables.
Design:
Multi-centre cross-sectional study.
Setting:
Health centres in Area II of the Murcia region. Participants. All general practitioners, family doctors and paediatricians in the health centres mentioned (54 in all).
Main Measurements:
The "Scale of attitudes towards the contents of primary health care" by Ballesteros et al. was used as the tool of evaluation. This scale provides both a total score and a specific score for each of its 7 dimensions.
Results:
In general, doctors' attitudes were favourable (4.1 points average out of 5). We found a less favourable attitude in the dimension "Inclusion of second-level professionals in primary care", with family doctors most in agreement. The professionals working in centres on the periphery and those without tenure had a more positive attitude towards the current model, for the remaining variables.
Conclusions:
Understanding professionals' attitudes and the variables related to them may serve as a basis for designing intervention strategies aimed at improving the quality of primary care and for the positive evolution of professionals working in PC.
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