A survey on the knowledge, attitude and behavior about familymedicine of the people living in certain apartment, Seoul.

Lee, Jun Kag; Park, Sung Kon; Lee, Sang Wha; Cho, Dong Young

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine 1991;12(8):50-57.
Published online August 1, 1991.

A survey on the knowledge, attitude and behavior about familymedicine of the people living in certain apartment, Seoul.

Jun Kag Lee, Sung Kon Park, Sang Wha Lee, Dong Young Cho

전국민 의료보험 및 의료전달체계 실시 이후 가정의학에 대한 인식도 조사

이준각, 박성규, 이상화, 조동영

서울기독병원 가정의학과 민중병원 가정의학과

Abstract

To know the knowledge, attitude and behavior about family medicine among the people living in certain apartment in Seoul, a questionnaire survey was carried out.
Among 500 persons setected randomly, 206 persons answered the questionnaire.
The results of this survey were as follows:
1. Among 296 persons, male was in 41.6%, and female was in 58.4%.
2. The rate of knowledge of family medicine was 70.9% and most of them heard of it via mass media.
3. 87.5% of the subject answered that the family medicine is really necessary for the health delivery system in Korea.
4. 6.8% of the subjects were registered at family medicine department and 78.7% of 196 answers were interested in participating family practice program whenever it is available.