Aile Sağlığı Merkezinde Çalışan Sağlık Personelinin Sağlığın Geliştirilmesi Uygulamalarına Ilişkin Görüşleri

Abstract

The research is made definitively to specify the opinions of healthcare personnel working in family health centers on health promotion practices. The healthcare personnel working in all family health centers in Yenimahalle county of city of Ankara constitutes the sampling of the research. The questionnaire developed by the researcher is used as the data collecting tool. The data obtained in the research is analyzed using SPSS 16.0 packaged software. It was identified that %47,2 of the healthcare personnel participating in the research were educated on health promotion and %21,5 of the trained personnel think they have sufficient knowledge. Those who express that they have sufficient knowledge on National Control Programs performed in primary healthcare organizations are identified to be %14,7. National Obesity Fighting Program is stated to have the priority among health promotion practices. School-age children are the top priority target group in health promotion. Time limitation is stated to be the most prominent complication in the aspect of health promotion. In the light of findings of this research, it is recommended to give comprehensive and repetitive trainings to the primary healthcare personnel on health promotion and national control programs, to hold especially nurses among family health personnel active and responsible for taking consultancy and training roles in national control programs, to make the health promotion practices and healthcare training skills of healthcare personnel recorded and to improve the training skills of the personnel, to do comprehensive research in which the practices can be physically evaluated since the results of our research are based on the statements of the participants.