[Attitudes of primary care professionals in Madrid in relation to work with groups].
OBJECTIVE
To learn about attitudes of health professionals with regard to work with groups in primary care.


METHODS
Qualitative-structural research.


METHODS
Autonomous Community of Madrid.


METHODS
General practicioners, pediatricians, specialists in family and community medicine, nurses, and social workers.


METHODS
4 discussion groups and 4 open interviews.


RESULTS
3 positions were identified in these professionals: the "convinced," mainly social workers, followed by nurses and some doctors (more often the family/community specialists than the GPs), who "believe" in groups; the "sceptics," mostly doctors and some nurses, who defend a basically clinical-care model; and the "convincibles," clearly the largest group, made up of doctors and nurses who, given a series of favourable conditions, would be prepared to make groups.


CONCLUSIONS
The development of health education groups in primary care in Madrid is conditioned by the scepticism of professionals.
Agencia Laín Entralgo para la Formación, Investigación y Estudios Sanitarios, Consejería de Sanidad, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. juancarlos.duro@salud.madrid.org
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D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003154:Community Medicine; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D009726:Nurses; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012947:Social Work; D013030:Spain; D000078329:Workforce