MEDICAL SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH AMONG INHABITANTS OF SUMY REGION UNITED COMMUNITIES ON SELF-HEALTHCARE

Abstract

Formation of health life and disease prophylaxis remain a top-priority problem at all levels of organization: global, national or regional. Population health is one of the biggest value and, at the same time, is a needed circumstance for country`s socio-economic development. Effective prophylaxis of chronic non-communicable diseases is most based on finding and elimination of illness risk but also requires formation of active society. Thus, healthcare appears not only as a medical aim but also as a social problem that makes patient himself responsible for his health state.
Purpose – to learn more about attitude of Sumy region communities to the problem of prophylaxis and idea of selfhealthcare.
Materials and methods. Our investigation form – questionnaire. We made our research based on three-level proportional selection, that varied due to the territory and socio-demographical indexes. Totally, we have questioned 1125 inhabitants. Theoretical error of selection equals 3%.
The research was done in two steps. During first step, we have designed and set program, instruments, formed selection features and created routes. During second part, our work was to make field studying (information gathering, interviewers` work check and eliminating of question forms) with further computer processing, combining material into the tables and preparation of report. Question forms` processing was done by Sumy State university laboratory “Center of socio-humanitarian regional researches’ aspects” and with “ОСA” program.
Results. After research we have concluded that only half of inhabitants of communities can rate their health state as positive and about 57% of them have indicated that they do not take care of their health themselves. About 78% of questioned people preferred to answer that their health is a responsibility of some out, independent factors, and only 21.8% agreed that their health depends on their way of life. Moreover, respondents do not consider such problems of public healthcare as health education, keeping healthy lifestyle, elimination of bad habits to be preferential; they put them only as 6% important. Every second respondent also claimed to have chronic disease, among them heart system diseases rated first. Nevertheless, only 31% of them are keeping their blood pressure control. Thus, we can say that today we have to create and implement informational communicative technologies for distance contact of patient and medical specialist. This will allow improving dynamic researches levels and will start improving of patients’ attitude to their health and selfhealthcare.