SUMMARY
Management of Public Health
ORGANIZATION OF DISEASES PREVENTION IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
Raminta Gečaitė
Supervisor Skirmantė Starkuvienė, MD, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, Kaunas University of Medicine. – Kaunas, 2005. - P.56.
Aim of the study – to evaluate patients’ attitude towards the non-communicable diseases (NCD) prevention in primary health care and to clarify the differences of the prevention between general practitioners (GP) and therapeutists.
Methods. The anonymous questionnaire survey was performed among adult patients, who visited their family doctor in Kaunas Kalniečiu outpatient clinic, at the Department of General Practitioners and General clinic (the work is organized in a team principal). There were 120 questionnaires distributed to the patients of GP and 101 of them were fulfilled and returned back (response rate – 84.2%). There were also 120 questionnaires delivered to the patients, who visited therapeutists and 98 of them were filled in (response rate – 81.7%). The data was analyzed by the application of statistical package SPSS 11.03 for Windows. The associations between the variables were measured using the Chi-squared and the Student tests.
Results. The survey disclosed that 15.6% of the respondents visited the family doctor in order to examine their health preventively. More than half (51.8%) of the patients were satisfied with the organization of diseases prevention carried out by their family... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050602_151815-36064 |
| Date | 02 June 2005 |
| Creators | Gečaitė, Raminta |
| Contributors | Starkuvienė, Skirmantė, Petrauskienė, Jadvyga, Tamošiūnas, Abdonas, Bučiūnienė, Ilona, Kalėdienė, Ramunė, Misevičienė, Irena, Bagdonas, Eugenijus, Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050602_151815-36064 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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