Knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of medical faculty students about family medicine

Abstract

Aim: It was aimed to determine the knowledge levels of medical faculty studentsabout the family medicine discipline, their approachto primary care, their interest in the family medicine career and the factors affecting it.Material and Methods: The universe of our study was 713 people, and the sample size was calculated as 250 people in 5% margin oferror and 95% confidence interval. A questionnaire included 62 questions which were aboutthe knowledge, attitudes and behaviorsof medical students about family medicine.In the variables with normal distribution, the comparisons of the two groups were carriedout with two independent samples t test.In non-normally distributed variables, comparisons of the two groups were examined byMann-Whitney test.Categorical variables were examined with Chi-Square test. Statistical significance was accepted as p