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Is it possible to improve general practitioners (GPs)' attitudes towards self-assessed glycemic control (SAGC) practices among diabetes patients
Volkova, Jolanta | |
Tamaševičienė, Kotryna | |
Žukauskaitė, Irena | |
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2018-04-06 |
Introduction. The importance of patients' SAGC is related with supervisor's (SV) support for GPs'. The aim of the study was to discover, what working conditions were related with improvement of GPs' attitude towards their patients' SAGC. Methods. 24 consecutive GPs took part in the study and 12, who were sceptic about the advantages of SAGC during first evaluation (average- 5.7/11 took pert in follow up study. Both times GPs had to till up the same questionnaires. Perceived SV support was meassured by short version of Greenhaus. Parasuraman and Wromley (1990) scale. GPs had to indicate their fatigue at work as well as stress at work on 10 point Likert type scales. GPs attitude towards their patients' SAGC were evaluated using average from 6 questions: GPs general attitude; the impact of SAGC on GPs decision making: the importance of SAGC in glucose parameters control changes in consulting time; effectiveness of bidrectional cooperation; benefit-to-harm ratio of such cooperation. Each question had to be ranked from 0 to 11. The data were analyzed using Mann Whitney and Wilcoxon tests. [...].