Doctors as disseminators? Practicing physicians as multipliers for community-based prevention networks in a large city in western Germany.
Aim: Practicing physicians have a special position as disseminators of community-based prevention for children. However, it is unclear to what extent physicians inform parents about programs. The study investigated: To what extent do physicians disseminate information about community-based preventio...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) Vol. 31; no. 5; pp. 701 - 710 |
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May2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=163164857&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 163164857 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 21981833 NENI jtl: Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) issn: 21981833 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2023 vid: 31 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 163164857 10.1007/s10389-021-01601-2 ppf: 701 ppct: 9 formats: tig: atl: Doctors as disseminators? Practicing physicians as multipliers for community-based prevention networks in a large city in western Germany. aug: au: Kreffter, Katharina Götz, Simon Lisak-Wahl, Stefanie Nguyen, Thuy Ha Dragano, Nico Weyers, Simone affil: Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Duesseldorf, Centre for Health and Society, Institute of Medical Sociology, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Duesseldorf, Germany su: Germany Community health services Physicians Research funding sug: subj: Community health services Physicians Germany Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities Other local, municipal and regional public administration Other Individual and Family Services All Other Outpatient Care Centers Community health centres Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) Offices of physicians Research funding keyword: Child health Community networks Information dissemination Prevention Socioeconomic factors Child health Community networks Information dissemination Prevention Socioeconomic factors ab: Aim: Practicing physicians have a special position as disseminators of community-based prevention for children. However, it is unclear to what extent physicians inform parents about programs. The study investigated: To what extent do physicians disseminate information about community-based prevention for children aged 0–7? Do differences exist along family's socioeconomic position (SEP) and immigrant background? Subject and methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study in a German school entrance examination. Parents were invited to participate in a survey on community-based prevention with information about their awareness and information source. SEP was measured by parental education, immigrant background by country of birth. For nine services types, we counted how often parents named physicians and other professional groups as information sources. To estimate social differences, we calculated adjusted odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI). Results: Survey participants included 6480 parents (response 65.49%). Compared to other information sources, physicians were mentioned less frequently. For example, regarding language therapy, 31.2% of parents were informed by healthcare/social services, and 4.4% by physicians. Lower educated parents were less frequently informed by physicians about counseling services (OR 0.58; 95% CI 0.46–0.73) compared to higher educated parents. Parents with immigrant background were informed less often about parenting skills courses (OR 0.79; 95% CI 0.70–0.90) compared to parents without immigrant background, but more often about language therapy (OR 1.47; 95% CI 1.13–1.91). No further social differences were observed. Conclusion: The role of physicians as disseminators for community-based prevention is expandable. They should promote parenting skills courses in a socially sensitive way. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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