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TRAINEES AND HEALTH EDUCATION

MIGUEL SOLA GARCÍA 1 ; BRAULIO GIRELA SERRANO 2 ; FERNANDO LEIVA CEPAS 3 ; MIGUEL ANGEL LOPEZ GARCIA 4
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Advanced therapies have developed in the last decades and there is a great expectation not only for patients but also for general public. In this research we investigated the perceptions of family trainees on health education on advanced therapies. Methods. This study was performed in the district of Jaén, Spain. The sample consisted of 30 family trainees. The average age was 29.2 years. The male/female ratio was 9/21 individuals. A questionnaire was used to evaluate the perceptions with a likert-like 1 to 5 scale to indicate their level of agreement or disagreement for each option. The Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney tests were used to identify the family medicine resident priorities. Family medicine residents gave highly positive scores to the need for health education in this matter. Providing health education in primary care centres is much better perceived that doing it in primary and middle school (p