title: [Factors related to community participation in primary care in the province of Toledo].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify how many professionals have, in their view, some experience of community participation (CP); how many have a positive attitude to CP; and other associated factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Observational, analytic, crossover study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Professionals from 22 Health Centres (HC).
  
  
  METHODS
  A questionnaire on attitudes, knowledge and behaviour.
  
  
  RESULTS
  220 (67%) of the 330 professionals who received the survey replied. More than half of these considered that CP in the HC was important. 49% had some experience of this question: of these 59% evaluated their experience was successful, a variable which was linked to work satisfaction, attachment to the HC for less than one year or more than five and being a nursing professional. The main problem was considered to be lack of preparation; and the main cause of failure of experiments was defective planning. 95% of professionals were willing to work on health projects involving community participation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Even accepting the difficulty of measuring attitudes, knowledge and behaviour, the idea and that the positive attitudes and/or experiences of Primary Care health professionals to CP are a chance phenomenon is rejected. An intervention study to check the hypotheses suggested in this study concerning the variable factors which favour success in community health participation is proposed.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Salud La Estación (Talavera de la Reina), Consejería de Sanidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pérez-Franco
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Turabián
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Magaña Loarte
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Manzano Cano
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Juárez
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D011320:Primary Health Care; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Factores asociados a la participación comunitaria en la atención primaria de la provincia de Toledo.