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[The demand for health education among the teachers at nonuniversity teaching centers]
O Moreno Abril1, D Jurado Chacón, J D Luna del Castillo
1Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universidad de Granada.
Objective:
To assess the demand for training in health education (HE) from non-university teachers, how it could be integrated into the school curriculum and other relevant items.
Design:
A descriptive study of a crossover type.
Setting:
Public, private and church schools in the city of Granada.
Patients And Other Participants:
A sample chosen by random sampling of clusters, composed of 303 teachers at 36 private and public schools.
Measurements And Main Results:
The demand from teachers for HE courses was 94.2%. They considered it would be good to include HE in the school curriculum (89.1%). To give HE as a "complementary activity" was the most favoured method (38.2%). Public schools were more interested than private or church ones in teaching environmental health (p < 0.005). There was a close association between the teacher's qualifications, the level he/she teaches and greater concern about questions which directly affect the child or adolescent. Therefore EGB (basic) teachers are more interested in gambling (p < 0.0001) and BUP-COU and FP teachers in drugs (p < 0.015).
Conclusions:
Among secondary (BUP-COU) and vocational training (FP) teachers there is considerable interest in Health education, although there is no one opinion on how to present it to their pupils. The close relationship between the HE aspects of most interest to the teacher and the level he/she teaches should be noted.