The need for more evidence-based interventions in primary care is clear. However, it is challenging to recruit general practitioners (GPs) for interventional research. This paper reports on the evaluation of three methods of recruitment that were sequentially used to recruit GPs for a randomised controlled trial of an asthma communication and education intervention in Australia. The recruitment...

The interactions between oral and systemic health are bi-directional and complex, involving many pathways. Regarding health as not merely the absence of disease, but as a state of total well-being, these interactions profoundly influence the progress of many diseases, and the quality of life and economic performance of HIV-infected individuals and populations. The evidence base for specific int...

BACKGROUND This paper describes the development and implementation of an intervention to facilitate teamwork between general practice and outside allied and community health services and providers. METHODS A review of organizational theory and a qualitative study of 9 practices was used to design an intervention which was applied in four Divisions of General Practice and 26 urban practices. C...

Multiple Health Behavior Change assumes health behaviors are related to one another, although research evidence is mixed. More research is needed to understand which behaviors are most closely related and how they collectively predict health. Principle component analysis and structural equation modeling were used to establish a model showing relations between health behaviors, including fruit/v...

BACKGROUND There is a growing interest in identifying strategies to achieve safer primary health-care provision. However, most of the research conducted so far in this area relies on information supplied by health-care providers, and limited attention has been paid to patients' perspectives. OBJECTIVE To explore patients' experiences and perceptions of patient safety in English general practi...

introduction: given the importance of spirituality and health as well as activities done by hospital personnel, the aim of present study is to evaluate the relationship between spirituality and general health and to assess some possible affecting factors such as demographic and work factors on these variables in hospital staff. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was done on hospi...

in recent years, the prevalence of mental disorders has increased and the prevalence of 18-23% is reported for iran. this study aims to evaluate psychological aspect of general health status of children in ilam city, located in iran using a questionnaire. this study is a descriptive-comparative research that measures general health of boys and girls in schools. the required information is obtai...