Health education training among grassroots medical personnel in urban and rural areas:Status quo and influence factors
Objective To explore the status quo of health education among medical personnel in primary health institutions and the influence factors,and to provide reference for promoting the development of primary health education.Methods A multi-stage sampling method was used to conduct a questionnaire survey among in-service medical personnel in 6 districts,counties(cities)of Shaoxing City from May to June,2023.Medical per-sonnel completed the survey through links or scanning QR codes.Results A total of 2 595 medical personnel from primary health institutions in Shaoxing City enrolled in the survey.The health education training rate of medi-cal personnel was 73.37%,and the chief way to have health education was attending training classes,accounting for 57.76%.Trainings at the hospital accounted for the highest proportion of training,that is,53.99%.Multiva-riate logistic regression analysis results showed that those entering the final model were women[OR(95%CI):1.264(1.016-1.572)],high school educaton and below[OR(95%CI):2.162(1.396-3.348)],engage-ment in health education[OR(95%CI):4.661(3.589-6.053)],willingness to work on health education[OR(95%CI):2.170(1.593-2.956)],sufficient health education funding[OR(95%CI):1.380(1.081-1.764)],health education incentive mechanism[OR(95%CI):1.935(1.507~2.485)],self-assessment as having complete health education capacity[OR(95%CI):2.994(1.871~4.790)],self-assessment as hav-ing certain health education capacity[OR(95%CI):1.082(0.706~1.658)],which were more likely to have health education than men,undergraduate education and above,not engaged in health education,lack of willing-ness to work on health education,insufficient funding for health education,lack of incentive mechanisms for health education,and self-evaluation as having no health education capacity.Conclusions Health education training for grassroots medical personnel is influenced by various factors such as gender,educational background,engagement in health education,self-assessment as having health education capacity,willingness to work on health education,health education funding,and health education incentive mechanisms.Training courses and Internet health educa-tion are the main forms of training for grass-roots medical personnel,and hospital training is the main level of train-ing.
Influence factorHealth educationMedical personnelGrassrootsHealthcare institutionTrainingUrban and rural areas