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The Patient Enablement Instrument-French version in a family practice setting: a reliability study
BackgroundPatient enablement can be defined as the extent to which a patient is capable of understanding and coping with his or her health issues. This concept is linked to a number of health outcomes such as self-management of chronic diseases and ...
C. Hudon+4 more
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Over-indebtedness and its association with sleep and sleep medication use
Background Over-indebtedness is currently rising in high-income countries. Millions of citizens are confronted with the persistent situation when household income and assets are insufficient to cover payment obligations and living expenses.
Jacqueline Warth+6 more
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Background Uncontrolled blood pressure remains an urgent issue in clinical practice worldwide. This study aimed to compare the characteristics and effectiveness of hypertension control in family medicine pratice in the first treatment year, in relation ...
Diana Jurić+14 more
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Development of a Tool to Identify Poverty in a Family Practice Setting: A Pilot Study
Objective. The goal of this pilot study was to develop and field-test questions for use as a poverty case-finding tool to assist primary care providers in identifying poverty in clinical practice. Methods.
V. Brcic+2 more
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Academic family practice [PDF]
In many countries, the imperatives of service delivery, the constraints of shrinking resources and the increasing demands of a well-informed yet frequently risk-taking population conspire to threaten the viability of clinical academic medicine. In many countries, Academies are looking hard at ways of making clinical academic careers more appealing and ...
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Unemployment is associated with a variety of adverse health-related outcomes, yet little data on primary care services for this risk group exist. Using data from two surveys, we analyzed the frequency of GP contacts and patients’ experiences with GPs ...
N. Ikar+11 more
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Strengthening Family Practices for Latino Families [PDF]
The study examined the effectiveness of a culturally-adapted Strengthening Families Program (SFP) for Latinos to reduce risks for alcohol and drug use in children. Latino families, predominantly Puerto Rican, with a 9-12 year old child and a parent(s) with a substance abuse problem participated in the study. Pre- and post-tests were conducted with each
Chartier, Karen G.+2 more
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Background As individuals age, they are more likely to experience increasing frailty and more frequent use of hospital services. First, we explored whether initiating home-based primary care in a frail homebound cohort, influenced hospital use.
Margaret J. McGregor+7 more
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Background Efforts to address health literacy should favour a system-based approach with the dual aim both of fostering the material conditions and creating a work culture inside health care organisations that makes it easier for people to use ...
Gilles Henrard+3 more
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