TY - JOUR
TI - Necessary level of skills and abilities of family physicians from decision-makers’ perspective in transitional Kosovo
AU - Skeraj, Fitim
AU - Czabanowska, Katarzyna
AU - Mone, Iris
AU - Bojaj, Gazmend
AU - Tahiri, Zejdush
AU - Burazeri, Genc
TI - Necessary level of skills and abilities of family physicians from decision-makers’ perspective in transitional Kosovo
AB - 
	Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the necessary level of abilities and competencies of family physicians from the decision-makers’ perspective in Kosovo, a post-war country in the Western Balkans.

	Methods: Our study was conducted in May-July 2013 and included a nationwide representative sample of 100 decision-makers operating at different primary health care institutions or public health agencies in Kosovo (63 men aged 48.6±5.5 years, and 65 women aged 46.2±5.7 years). A structured self-administered questionnaire was employed aiming to assess the necessary level of skills, abilities and competencies of family physicians in Kosovo regarding  different domains of the quality of health care. The questionnaire included 37 items organized into six subscales/domains. Answers for each item of the tool ranged from 1 (“novice” physicians) to 5 (“expert” physicians). An overall summary score (range: 37-185) and a subscale summary score for each domain were calculated for each participant. Cronbach’s alpha was used to assess the internal consistency of the instrument, whereas Mann-Whitney’s U-test was employed to assess sex-differences in the mean values of the summary score of 37-item instrument and the summary scores of each of the six subscales.

	Results: The internal consistency of the whole scale (37 items) was Cronbach’s alpha=0.92. The summary score of the 37-item instrument was higher in men than in women (162.3±17.9 vs. 156.1±17.5, respectively, P=0.071). The subscale scores were all higher in men than in women, a finding which was borderline statistically significant for the “patient care and safety” domain only (33.4±4.4 vs. 32.0±4.0, respectively, P=0.057). There was a weak correlation between the overall summary score of the tool and the work experience of decision-makers (Spearman’s rho=0.234, P
VL - 2013
IS - Tom 11, Numer 2
PY - 2013
SN - 1731-7398
C1 - 2084-2627
SP - 234
EP - 238
DO - 10.4467/20842627OZ.14.020.1630
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/zdrowie-publiczne-i-zarzadzanie/artykul/necessary-level-of-skills-and-abilities-of-family-physicians-from-decision-makers-perspective-in-transitional-kosovo
KW - kompetencje
KW - lekarz rodzinny
KW - podstawowa opieka zdrowotna