Comparison of personal habits and baseline knowledge of health promotion among students of the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo

Abstract

During the years of the undergraduate medical course little emphasis is given to the importance of health promotion and prevention in the lives of doctors and patients. Typically, the teaching is based on a curative medicine. But, nowadays, the implementing health promotion programs are important to generate significant positive results for society and especially for businesses, employees and the financial market. This study aims to increase the sample size of a monograph made in 2011 and evaluate health promotion knowledge of first year’s students of specialization in Occupational Medicine, correlating it with the knowledge of the second year’s students of specialization in Occupational Medicine of Medicine College of São Paulo University, after Health Promotion module, and evaluate their own health habits. We’ll do a literature review from 1997 to 2014 on the topic in the online databases. A cross-sectional study will be done with two questionnaires that had been used in previous studies by Ferreira Junior 2011. Questionnaires are called 1) “Survey of attitudes and behavior” and 2) “Questionnaire of knowledge will be held in promoting health.” Then, statistical analysis will be made with data obtained by questionnaires and through the evaluation of results we’ll conclude the study.