[Self application of preventive measures and opinion about applying them to the population at the health centers of Cantabria].

OBJECTIVE

To establish the degree of fulfillment of preventive measures and health promotion recommended by the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine for medical staff; to determine the opinion for medical staff about the application to these preventive measures in the general population and to analyse the relationship between the self application and the recommendation to the population.

DESIGN

Cross-sectional observational through questionnaire.

SETTING

Health Centers in Cantabria.

PARTICIPANTS

Medical staff of Health Centers.

MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS

A response of 67.9% (146 out of 215) was obtained. The results of the self application had been: smokers, 35.6%; know their TA, 89.5%; know their weight, 99.3%; know their cholesterol, 81.5%; tetanus vaccinated, 41.4%; influence vaccinated, 33.6%; hepatitis B vaccinated, 38.6%; consume alcohol in excess, 5.6%; make breasts annual exploration, 44.4%; mammography, 33.0%; cervical cytology, 73.1% protected against german measles, 87.2%. The opinion of the medical staff about the application of the preventive measures in the general population of was positive in more of 90% the respondent. We found a significant relation (p < 0.01) between self application and recommendations to the population; and the population recommendation also showed an inverse relationship with the number of years of experience in First Aid (p < 0.01). However, the statistical was low for these variables (0.2).

CONCLUSION

The self application of the preventive measures in the Health Centers of Cantabria is in general better than in other Spanish regions and although, we found relations between self application and recommendation to the population the statistics potency was low for this variable.