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Revista Cubana de Medicina General Integral
versión On-line ISSN 1561-3038
Resumen
PEREZ MARTINEZ, Víctor T.; NOLLA CAO, Nidia y ALERM GONZALEZ, Alina. Needs of learning of specialist of Integral General Medicine on dementia syndrome. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2010, vol.26, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3038.
Introduction: needs of learning or training are the result of a comparison process between the knowledges or abilities and the reality. Always it comes of to verify an ideal performance or the proposed compared to the real one, for a subject or a determined group. Objectives: to identify the needs of learning that on the dementia syndrome, have the physicians working in health primary care teams from Playa municipality. Methods: authors identified the needs of learning by a written questionnaire, applied in a collective or anonymous way in 20 specialists of Integral General Medicine working in three polyclinics from eastern extreme of Playa municipality. It was a random selection. Results: the deficiencies and insufficiencies of knowledges and professional abilities on dementia syndrome were specified, mainly with reference to the diagnosis and its obsolete therapeutics. Conclusions: in spite of the fact that senile dementia is a major entity in the geriatric, psychiatric, epidemiological and socioeconomic order, most of specialist don't make a proper identification, persisting as an underdiagnosed and undervalue entity.
Palabras clave : Needs; learning; syndrome; dementia; questionnaire.