SUMMARY
The aim of the study is to evaluate attitude of physicians and patients towards primary health care reform.
The objectives: 1) to assess patients' attitude to primary health care reform and its relations to demographic and social factors.
2) to evaluate physicians' attitude to primary health care reform.
3) to compare viewpoint of patients and physicians on primary health care reform.
Methods. The subject of the survey is the attitude of the patients and physicians towards primary health care reform. The survey was conducted in five primary health care centres and three private primary health care practices in Prienai region. Of the 400 questionnaires handed out to patients 82.5% were returned and of the 112 questionnaires given to doctors 87.5% were returned. The participants in the survey were 330 patients and 98 medical doctors. The questionnaires were compiled both for the patients and the doctors. The questionnaire for the patients covered 24 questions, for the doctors - 19 questions. The data analysis was done applying the statistical package SPSS 11.0 version. The statistical procedures were employed by Chi-square’s (χ2) parameters, degree of freedom and statistical significance. The difference of indices were statistical significant at p<0.05.
Results. 55.9% of the patients’ attitude towards primary health care reform is positive, while 29.9% of the patients - negative. 18.3% of the patients have the opinion that due to health care reform the quality of... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050620_133756-59338 |
| Date | 20 June 2005 |
| Creators | Slauta, Virginijus |
| Contributors | Kalėdienė, Ramunė, Misevičienė, Irena, Petrauskienė, Jadvyga, 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_20050620_133756-59338 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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