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The Patient Enablement Instrument-French version in a family practice setting: a reliability study

open access: yesBMC Family Practice, 2011
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Over-indebtedness and its association with sleep and sleep medication use

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of treatment of newly diagnosed hypertension in family medicine practices in South Croatia

open access: yesBMC Family Practice, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a Tool to Identify Poverty in a Family Practice Setting: A Pilot Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Family Medicine, 2011
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Academic family practice [PDF]

open access: yesFamily Practice, 2003
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 ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Unemployed individuals contact GPs more frequently but report lower satisfaction: results of the population-based DEGS1 and the GPCare-1 patient survey

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Strengthening Family Practices for Latino Families [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 2010
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
openaire   +4 more sources

A before-after study of hospital use in two frail populations receiving different home-based services over the same time in Vancouver, Canada

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2018
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
doaj   +1 more source

Dealing with health literacy at the organisational level, French translation and adaptation of the Vienna health literate organisation self-assessment tool

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

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