[Physicians's attitude toward patient education]

In the article patient education is recognized as a process of changing knowledge, attitudes and skills and influencing behaviour to improve health. In 2001 a questionnaire survey was carried out among 415 physicians to assess range of patient education, physicians' attitudes, social influences supporting and hindering this activity and barriers for performance. It was concluded that patient education was quite wide range activity among young physicians and attitudes were more or less positive. Despite of that social influences were not strongly supportive for patient education and there was a lot of barriers, especially lack of time, too many patients and administrative tasks.