Role of health care professionals informing adolescents about health promotion issues at primary health care level

Objectives: The goal of this study was to find out if adolescents receive full information about health related issue and role of primary health care professionals in health promotion. Material and Methods The quantitative survey was conducted among 11-19 years old adolescents. Overall 1000 young people were interviewed across Georgia using a standard questionnaire in 2014. The survey sampling methodology was multi-stage probability sampling. All information were analyzed in SPSS 21 version. Results and Conclusions According to the study results mostly adolescents do not receive appropriate services and adequate consultation in primary health care centers as it is written in the national and international guideline. Primary health care doctors do not provide full information to young people about reproductive health, healthy lifestyle and health promotion issues. It is necessary to educate adolescents especially face to face consultation is needed. Furthermore, it is important to train health care professionals, namely family doctors and pediatricians in adolescents’ health issues and to implement it in clinical practice