[The use of the International Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asthma (GINA) in clinical practice among family physicians]. / El uso de las Guías internacionales de Diagnóstico y Tratamiento del Asma (GINA) en la práctica clínica de los médicos familiares.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the degree of knowledge of family physicians related to the International Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment (GINA) of Asthmatic Patients. MATERIAL AND METHOD: We invited the family physicians from some clinics of Mexico City. A questionnaire was applied to 50 doctors who accepted to participate in the study; they had a 46 year-old age average and a proportion 1:1 between genders. The analysis was carried out with the test r of Pearson. RESULTS: The correlation between general knowledge of asthma and knowledge of GINA was r = 0.022; between the general knowledge of asthma and the specialty of family medicine was r = -0.117; and that among the knowledge on International Guides of Asthma and the specialty of family medicine was r = 0.33. CONCLUSIONS: A scarce knowledge exists on the guides proposed by GINA.