Counselling spaces in Italy are in public care services to the family, education for responsible motherhood and fatherhood, women's and couples' health. The public counsellings have been established in various Italian regions since 1975. Over the years the services changed in according to customer requests. The aim of this study has been to analyze, by administering a questionnaire, the different services and different types of users in North, Central and Southern Italy with particular regard to the services for adolescents. There have been descriptive and inferential analysis. Analysis results have seen a heterogeneous distribution in North, Central, and Southern Italy, particularly in relation to the proportion of female users, adolescents and immigrants. Within the public counselling there are gynecologists, midwives and psychologists, there are less frequently pediatricians and internists, probably in relation to the type of given performances (contraception, pregnancy and unwanted pregnancy). Finally, regarding the satisfaction of the service provided, the facilities managers perceive themselves, especially in the South and the North, how mostly inaccessible, impractical and with an insufficient number of operators.
Survey of the Italian Society for Adolescent Medicine (SIMA) on the organization of the family public counselling services for adolescents
INVITTO, SARA
2011-01-01
Abstract
Counselling spaces in Italy are in public care services to the family, education for responsible motherhood and fatherhood, women's and couples' health. The public counsellings have been established in various Italian regions since 1975. Over the years the services changed in according to customer requests. The aim of this study has been to analyze, by administering a questionnaire, the different services and different types of users in North, Central and Southern Italy with particular regard to the services for adolescents. There have been descriptive and inferential analysis. Analysis results have seen a heterogeneous distribution in North, Central, and Southern Italy, particularly in relation to the proportion of female users, adolescents and immigrants. Within the public counselling there are gynecologists, midwives and psychologists, there are less frequently pediatricians and internists, probably in relation to the type of given performances (contraception, pregnancy and unwanted pregnancy). Finally, regarding the satisfaction of the service provided, the facilities managers perceive themselves, especially in the South and the North, how mostly inaccessible, impractical and with an insufficient number of operators.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
