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J Manzano Cano

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PubMed1994

[Perception of the success of primary care health promotion in the province of Toledo].

OBJECTIVE: Identification of factors which can condition the perception by Primary Care professionals of success in health promotion. DESIGN: An observation study of a crossover type. PARTICIPANTS: 106 professionals (doctors, nurses and social workers) from 22 health centres in the province of Toledo, who filled in a questionnaire. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: A non-conditional, multiple, logistic regression analysis was used. The professional satisfied with his/her work, not a doctor and who worked in a health centre open for less than 3 years, presented, against their opposite values, greater probability (OR 3.01, 2.41 and 1.24 respectively) of having a perception of success in health promotion. CONCLUSIONS: Health promotion undertaken in newly-opened centres, which involves in particular non-medical staff and, above all, is carried out by professionals satisfied with their habitual work, has a 77% probability of being considered successful by these professionals. These factors greatly facilitate its propagation in Primary Care.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1993

[Factors related to community participation in primary care in the province of Toledo].

OBJECTIVE: To identify how many professionals have, in their view, some experience of community participation (CP); how many have a positive attitude to CP; and other associated factors. DESIGN: Observational, analytic, crossover study. PARTICIPANTS: Professionals from 22 Health Centres (HC). INTERVENTION: A questionnaire on attitudes, knowledge and behaviour. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: 220 (67%) of the 330 professionals who received the survey replied. More than half of these considered that CP in the HC was important. 49% had some experience of this question: of these 59% evaluated their experience was successful, a variable which was linked to work satisfaction, attachment to the HC for less than one year or more than five and being a nursing professional. The main problem was considered to be lack of preparation; and the main cause of failure of experiments was defective planning. 95% of professionals were willing to work on health projects involving community participation. CONCLUSIONS: Even accepting the difficulty of measuring attitudes, knowledge and behaviour, the idea and that the positive attitudes and/or experiences of Primary Care health professionals to CP are a chance phenomenon is rejected. An intervention study to check the hypotheses suggested in this study concerning the variable factors which favour success in community health participation is proposed.

Community Participation↗