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Using general practitioners to recruit individuals with low socioeconomic position to preventive health checks is feasible: a cross sectional study

Objective: To test whether demographic and health-related characteristics are associated with non-attendance of preventive health checks offered to individuals with low levels of education using proactive recruitment by the general practitioners. Design: A cross-sectional study. Setting: 32 general...

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Autores principales: Kamstrup-Larsen, Nina, Dalton, Susanne Oksbjerg, Broholm-Jørgensen, Marie, Larsen, Lars Bruun, Thomsen, Janus Laust, Johansen, Christoffer, Tolstrup, Janne Schurmann
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6713093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31286817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2019.1639901
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author Kamstrup-Larsen, Nina
Dalton, Susanne Oksbjerg
Broholm-Jørgensen, Marie
Larsen, Lars Bruun
Thomsen, Janus Laust
Johansen, Christoffer
Tolstrup, Janne Schurmann
author_facet Kamstrup-Larsen, Nina
Dalton, Susanne Oksbjerg
Broholm-Jørgensen, Marie
Larsen, Lars Bruun
Thomsen, Janus Laust
Johansen, Christoffer
Tolstrup, Janne Schurmann
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description Objective: To test whether demographic and health-related characteristics are associated with non-attendance of preventive health checks offered to individuals with low levels of education using proactive recruitment by the general practitioners. Design: A cross-sectional study. Setting: 32 general practice clinics in Copenhagen, Denmark. Subjects: A total of 549 individuals aged 45–64, with low levels of education, enrolled in the intervention group of a randomised controlled trial on preventive health checks offered by general practitioner. Main outcome measures: Non-attendance of the preventive health checks. Methods: (i) Descriptive characteristics of attendees and non-attendees and (ii) crude and adjusted multi-level logistic regression to examine associations of individual characteristics with non-attendance of preventive health checks. Results: Overall, 33% did not attend the prescheduled preventive health checks at their general practitioners. Non-attendees were more likely to live without a partner, be of non-Western origin, be daily smokers, have poor self-rated health, have higher pulmonary symptoms score, have increased level of stress, have low levels of self-efficacy, have metabolic risk factors or non-communicable diseases and have had no contact with their general practitioner within the past year. Conclusion: KEY POINTS: Current awareness; • Non-attendance of preventive health checks offered to the general population is associated with low socioeconomic position and adverse health behaviours. Main statements; • It is feasible to use general practitioners proactively in recruitment to preventive health checks offered to individuals with low socioeconomic positions. • In a trial targeting individuals with low levels of education, there were differences between attendees and non-attendees. • Non-attendance was associated with daily smoking, poor self-rated health, high stress and no contact with the general practitioner within the last year.
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spelling pubmed-67130932019-09-05 Using general practitioners to recruit individuals with low socioeconomic position to preventive health checks is feasible: a cross sectional study Kamstrup-Larsen, Nina Dalton, Susanne Oksbjerg Broholm-Jørgensen, Marie Larsen, Lars Bruun Thomsen, Janus Laust Johansen, Christoffer Tolstrup, Janne Schurmann Scand J Prim Health Care Research Article Objective: To test whether demographic and health-related characteristics are associated with non-attendance of preventive health checks offered to individuals with low levels of education using proactive recruitment by the general practitioners. Design: A cross-sectional study. Setting: 32 general practice clinics in Copenhagen, Denmark. Subjects: A total of 549 individuals aged 45–64, with low levels of education, enrolled in the intervention group of a randomised controlled trial on preventive health checks offered by general practitioner. Main outcome measures: Non-attendance of the preventive health checks. Methods: (i) Descriptive characteristics of attendees and non-attendees and (ii) crude and adjusted multi-level logistic regression to examine associations of individual characteristics with non-attendance of preventive health checks. Results: Overall, 33% did not attend the prescheduled preventive health checks at their general practitioners. Non-attendees were more likely to live without a partner, be of non-Western origin, be daily smokers, have poor self-rated health, have higher pulmonary symptoms score, have increased level of stress, have low levels of self-efficacy, have metabolic risk factors or non-communicable diseases and have had no contact with their general practitioner within the past year. Conclusion: KEY POINTS: Current awareness; • Non-attendance of preventive health checks offered to the general population is associated with low socioeconomic position and adverse health behaviours. Main statements; • It is feasible to use general practitioners proactively in recruitment to preventive health checks offered to individuals with low socioeconomic positions. • In a trial targeting individuals with low levels of education, there were differences between attendees and non-attendees. • Non-attendance was associated with daily smoking, poor self-rated health, high stress and no contact with the general practitioner within the last year. Taylor & Francis 2019-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6713093/ /pubmed/31286817 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2019.1639901 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kamstrup-Larsen, Nina
Dalton, Susanne Oksbjerg
Broholm-Jørgensen, Marie
Larsen, Lars Bruun
Thomsen, Janus Laust
Johansen, Christoffer
Tolstrup, Janne Schurmann
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title_fullStr Using general practitioners to recruit individuals with low socioeconomic position to preventive health checks is feasible: a cross sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Using general practitioners to recruit individuals with low socioeconomic position to preventive health checks is feasible: a cross sectional study
title_short Using general practitioners to recruit individuals with low socioeconomic position to preventive health checks is feasible: a cross sectional study
title_sort using general practitioners to recruit individuals with low socioeconomic position to preventive health checks is feasible: a cross sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6713093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31286817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2019.1639901
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