Achieving a preventive attitude is the first step in eliminating cancer risk behaviours. This cross-sectional study evaluated the attitude towards the European Code against Cancer, in 3,031 relatives of cancer patients. The study looked for keys to improve attitude by means of educational interventions. Attitude was evaluated using a questionnaire with 63 items and a Likert's scale. Measured fr...

Janice C. Zgibor, RPh, PhD, and Thomas J. Songer, PhD, MSc Existing knowledge from the literature demonstrates that primary prevention of diabetes complications is possible. However, patient-, provider-, and health system-based barriers may prevent implementation of evidence-based practices. This article explores barriers to diabetes care that are external to the patient and that may require pa...

BACKGROUND Depressive disorders in adolescents are a widespread and increasing problem. Prevention seems a promising and feasible approach. METHODS We designed a cognitive-behavioral school-based universal primary prevention program and followed 347 eighth-grade students participating in a randomized controlled trial for three months. RESULTS In line with our hypothesis, participants in the...

Firearm injury is a disease that afflicts many individuals in the United States, either directly or indirectly. Trauma and critical care nurses have direct experience with this life-threatening disease and recognize the high lethality. The magnitude of this health problem requires a focus on primary prevention. We recognize that any focus on firearm injury is often contentious and political; ho...

There is pressure on primary care trusts, and therefore on GPs, to reach specific levels of use of low-cost statins as a proportion of total statin prescribing. This simple study looks at some markers of the quality of the results achieved. A correlation is found between a higher proportion of low-cost statin prescribing and lower achievement raising questions as to whether financial savings ma...

BACKGROUND Usually experts decide on which research is worthwhile, yet it is government policy to involve service users in research. There has been a lack of published research about involving patients from minority ethnic groups and people from deprived areas in setting research agendas. In this study we wanted to hear the voices of patients that are not often heard. AIM To find out the rese...

Insignificant or modest findings in intervention trials may be attributable to poorly designed or theorised interventions, poorly implemented interventions, or inadequate evaluation methods. The pre-existing context may also account for the effects observed. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods is outlined that will permit the determination of how context level factors might mo...

We commend Stringer et al. for addressing the importance of developing and implementing a monitoring and evaluation model for measuring the effectiveness of prevention of motherto-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programmes.1 We also recommend broadening our PMTCT lexicon and developing additional metrics for preventing both HIV acquisition by uninfected women and unintended pregnancies among HIV...

I was startled, even though I should not have been, to receive the special issue on “Finding A Common Agenda For Preventing Child Maltreatment, Youth Violence, and Domestic Violence” (Vol. 19, No. 3, 2004). I was startled because none of the articles covered what the research clearly indicates is the primordial violence—slapping and spanking by parents. Failing to address these legal and cultur...

BACKGROUND Preventive services provided opportunistically by GPs are insufficient. Reasons are most often gathered through GPs' self-reports, rather than through independent observation. OBJECTIVE To assess with passive observers, the degree to which French GPs opportunistically perform primary preventive care during routine consultation. METHODS Observational cross-sectional multicentre an...