The influence of the level of education on the attitude to compliance with the doctor's recommendations

Abstract

The purpose of the study: to analyze the effect of education on the attitude to compliance with the doctor's recommendations by surgical patients.Materials and methods. Information was obtained through an anonymous questionnaire of 401 inpatient patients. Two comparison groups were formed: 221 people had higher or unfinished higher education, and 180 people had secondary or secondary-special education. Among the patients studied, there were no those who had a professional medical education. Three age groups stood out: 23-44 years old, 45-59 years old and 60 years old and older. Since higher education can only be obtained by the age of 22-23 and the use of younger age groups in this case is incorrect.Results. Regardless of gender, the general trend was a decrease in the specific gravity of those who comply with doctor's appointments with increasing age. Among men in all age groups, patients with a high level of education performed prescriptions and recommendations of the doctor more often, than low-education patients, and among women, high-education patients performed physician prescriptions and recommendations more frequently, than patients with low levels of education only in the young and middle age groups, and in the older age group, the proportion of those who always fulfill the prescriptions of a doctor in full among women with a high level of education is reduced by increasing the proportion of those performing the prescriptions of a doctor only if he considers it necessary. The same patterns, in general, are observed in relation to the implementation of the principles of a healthy lifestyle. But in men, the influence of education level is manifested after 45 years and in the middle and older age groups the number of those who perform them only if they consider it necessary increases. In women, the influence of educational level on the frequency of implementation of the principles of a healthy lifestyle is more pronounced in all age groups. Also, like men, with increasing age, the proportion of women who believe that it is necessary to fulfill doctor's appointments only if they themselves consider it necessary.