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  • Title: [Relationship between the use of postgraduate educational material on human immunodeficiency virus and the number of HIV consultations in family practice].
    Author: Wigersma L, Heijnen AM, Hochheimer EH, Kloosterman H.
    Journal: Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd; 1991 Feb 02; 135(5):178-80. PubMed ID: 1706075.
    Abstract:
    An enquiry using a structured questionnaire was conducted among all 6300 GPs in the Netherlands in order to assess the distribution of HIV-related problems over general practices in the Netherlands and the influence on it of the use of the 'HIV-wijzer voor de huisarts', a loose-leaf handbook on HIV, distributed since 1988 among all Dutch general practitioners. The enquiry was conducted one year after its publication. The 2156 respondents (34%) appeared to be reasonably representative of all GPs. The results show minor imperfections because a small proportion of the questionnaires was filled out incompletely. Almost 90% of respondents mentioned HIV-related consultations, 24% had HIV-seropositive patients and 18% had AIDS patients. These numbers were correlated mainly with municipality size, less with region. The use of the 'HIV-wijzer' was related to occurrence of HIV-related consultations and AIDS patients in a practice. GPs who do not encounter these problems are little motivated to read the 'HIV-wijzer'. For them, other means of education have to be developed or HIV has to be included in existing education programmes on other subjects.
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