Yetişkinlerin Aile Hekimliği Uygulaması ile İlgili Düşünceleri ve Aile Hekimlerine Başvuru Durumu.

AIM: The aim of this study is to determine the adult's perspective about family medicine and the status of service utilization. METHOD: This descriptive study was conducted on 485 adults aged 18 and over in the city center of Kayseri Province. RESULTS: The mean age of the study sample was 41.9±14.3 and 46.4% of the sample was male. Of the group, 50.1% of them thought that they had enough knowledge about family medicine practices. When family members or they have any health problem 49.7% of them usually prefer their family physicians. 23.9% of the study group didn't know if they had the right to choose and change their family physicians. The rate of people who had already changed their family physician was 12, 0% and 9.5% of them intended to change. The proportion of the women who knew their "family medicine personnel" was 27.2%, only 12.4% of them stated that they had been visited at home. The rate of the people who had found the family medicine practice as "successful" was 61.8 % and also 83.1 % mentioned that it is an appropriate health care system for our country. When the utilization status of 1693 family members from family physicians; the application rate was found to be 76.3%. This rate is significantly high in women, old age people and children. CONCLUSION: We found that people don't prefer family medicine as a place of first application although they have more or less knowledge about family medicine. Most of them didn't get enough preventive services from their physicians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]