Evaluation of self-competency of family physicians and family health workers in providing health services to syrian children: an example from ankara, türkiye

Objective: Türkiye is an immigrant-intensive country and primary health care services are the first health institution to apply for migrant children. In this research, it is aimed to evaluate how competent family physicians and family health workers working at where high Syrian migration population live consider themselves in providing health services to Syrian children. Methods:This research was conducted among 224 family health physician and 250 family health workers in seven districts with a high migrant population in Ankara, Türkiye. Language knowledge and abroad experience was asked to the participants. The questionnaire included the participants’ education on migrant health, their experience in providing health care to migrant people. Multinomial logistic regression analysiswas used to evaluate factors associated with experiencing difficulties in servingimmigrant children. Results:Over the third-four of the family physicians (78.9%) and more than one-third of the family health workers (31.6%) knew at least one foreign language (p