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European general practitioners’/family physicians’ attitudes towards person-centered care and factors that influence its implementation in everyday practice : preliminary results
Background:
Person-centered care (PCC) is widely acknowledged as a core value in family medicine and has been
associated with many positive outcomes of care. There has been no comparison of GPs attitudes towards
person-centeredness across European countries.
Research questions:
To investigate GPs/FPs attitudes towards person-centeredness. To understand GPs/FPs facilitators and
barriers related to practicing PCC. To document obstacles to practicing PCC in practice.
Method:
A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study across 22 European countries (finished in one country, in 10
countries ongoing, in 11 countries finishing the preparatory phase). In each country, the population of
GPs/FPs will be reached through the official mailing list of the national medical associations. The study
instrument consists of four parts: General information about the doctor and the doctor's office, Perceived
Stress Scale (PSS), Patient Practitioner Orientation Scale (PPOS) and Facilitators and barriers to PCC in
everyday practice. The Ethics Committee, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb approved the project.
The study will be carried out in close collaboration with the European Association for Quality and Patient
Safety in Primary Care (EQuiP) and the European General Practice Research Network (EGPRN). The study
will be coordinated by the Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine University of Zagreb (Croatia).
The project is supported by the EGPRN Grant.
Results:
GPs/FPs attitudes towards person-centeredness will be described and investigated in correlation to sociodemographic data and work stress in each participating European country. GPs/FPs facilitators and barriers
to practicing PCC in everyday practice will be analysed. Data will be analysed using software package
STATISTICA 7.1 (StatSoft Inc, Tulsa, OK, USA), and P < .05 will be considered statistically significant.
Conclusions:
Regardless of the specific context of care that is highly dependent on the patient, physician and healthcare
system characteristics, PCC represents a core value of family medicine that should be implemented in
GPs/FPs everyday work across Europe