WAYS TO RAISE MEDICAL AWARENESS OF SCHOOLCHILDREN
A study has been carried out to provide a scientific justification for medical and organizational measures to raise the medical awareness of schoolchildren. Sources of information: map of the quality assessment of the organization and medical information (405 cases), questionnaire of 405 schoolchildren. A methodical model for integrated assessment of schoolchildren’s medical awareness is proposed, it includes: the main 5 information groups that schoolchildren need to ensure the preservation and promotion of their own health, participation in health care; 9 evaluation components. An expert assessment of the organization and medical information of schoolchildren in children’s clinics has been carried out. Assessment of medical awareness of high school students showed a decrease of 32.5%, mainly due to such components as: «reproductive», «medical-diagnostic», «anatomo-physiological», «ethical-legal», «urgent», «use of information sources and means», «sanitary-preventive», «dependencies». Differences in medical awareness by sex have been found - higher in girls than in boys; parental family status is higher in full than in incomplete; in terms of medical activity of the student - higher in active schoolchildren than schoolchildren who rarely go to the clinic. It has been established that the quality of the organization and medical information of high school students in children’s clinics has been reduced. Integral assessment by experts of the quality of the medical information organization was rejected by 35%, due to shortcomings in work planning, lack of individual approach to informing patients, thematic training of medical professionals. Proposed: algorithm for assessing the medical awareness of schoolchildren; a method of assessing the quality of medical information for high school students; an algorithm to assess the preparedness of children’s clinics for medical information of schoolchildren; monitor schoolchildren medical awareness.