The Effects of the European Early Promotion Project Training on Primary Health Care Professionals

Abstract

This chapter explores the effects of the European Early Promotion project training on primary health care professionals, with regard to their knowledge, self-efficacy and ability to identify need in families, and to their satisfaction with the training received. A quasi-experimental group comparison design was developed, in which an Intervention and a Comparison group were assessed twice: the Intervention group before and after the special EEPP training and the Comparison at the same time interval but without the training. Overall results show a tendency for the Intervention group to improve in knowledge and perceived self-efficacy, and a significant improvement in their accuracy of need identification in families, compared with the Comparison group. These results were more prominent in Greece, Serbia and the UK than in Finland and Cyprus, whereas training satisfaction was high in all sites. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for early intervention as well as for training PHCPs to conduct preventative and promotional work with families.

Keywords:

• primary health care personnel
• primary prevention
• home based intervention
• need identification