Hasan Alinezhad, Reza Vazirinezhad , Ahmadreza Sayadi, Zeinab Hajaliakbari, Mahdi Alinezhad,
Volume 78, Issue 10 (January 2021)
Abstract
Background: One of the most important duties of a family physician is primary health care. The family doctor plan is one of the developmental measures to provide easy and low-cost access for patients to health care centers. The family doctor and her team are fully responsible for the health of the individuals and families covered. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess the satisfaction of rural areas of Rafsanjan city with the family physician plan.
Methods: This study is a descriptive-analytical study that was conducted in rural areas of Rafsanjan from October to December 2018. The study population consisted of twelve randomly selected villages in Rafsanjan. The required sample size was examined according to the size of the statistical population of 480 people. In this study, to collect the required data, a researcher-made checklist was used, which was prepared by reviewing the texts of the questions. The sampling method was cluster random. To check the validity of the checklist, the opinions of 10 health education experts were used. To check the reliability, the checklist was provided to 20 villagers and the reliability was determined using Cronbach's alpha method of 82%. The mean was used to describe the data and inferential statistics t-test and ANOVA were used to analyze the data and analyzed by SPSS.
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Results: The average satisfaction of villagers with the family physician program was relatively good. The Highest satisfaction is with diploma education and income below 1 million 2.21% and the lowest satisfaction score is 21-30 years old and income over three million 2.16%.
Conclusion: Satisfaction with the implementation of the family physician program in rural areas indicated that the health system reform processes were successful and to increase this satisfaction, we must improve the level of service and improve the quality of family physician services day by day because the health system with effective health care is an important element of family physicians.
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