Community based rehabilitation program in people with musculoskeletal conditions was evaluated using Dartmouth COOP Functional Health Assessment Charts/WONCA (COOP/WONCA charts). The program consisted of educative and training protocol in a primary healthcare setting. It had two parts, both with six visits, in the first part three times a week and in the second part once a week. Clients with mu...

PURPOSE Most people with mental disorders receive treatment in primary care. The charts developed by the Dartmouth Primary Care Cooperative Research Network (COOP) and the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies, and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians (WONCA) have not yet been evaluated as a screen for these disorders, using a structured psychiatric inte...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is similar in Japan and China and is increasing due to high rates of smoking in these countries. Reducing COPD is an important public health issue. The goals of this study were to verify the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the COOP/WONCA charts, a tool for measuring health status, and to examine the qu...

PURPOSE Long-term outcome and quality of life in omphalocele (OC) studies are mainly focused on cosmetic disorders with the abdominal scar and gastrointestinal disorders. The aim of this study was to compare long-term mortality, morbidity, and quality of life between patients with minor and giant OCs. METHODS Records of 89 minor and 22 giant OC children were reviewed. A questionnaire on gener...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To value the quality of life of the patients with osteomuscular chronic pain users of two Primary Care Centres, by means of the application of questionnaire COOP-WONCA adapted to the Spanish during the second semester of 2003 and first of 2004. MATERIAL AND METHODS Cross-sectional observational descriptive design. Systematic random sample. 320 users of the Health Cent...

BACKGROUND Ottawa Charter defined health as a resource for everyday life and as an important dimension of health related quality of life (HRqol). Diabetes and obesity have repeatedly been shown as diseases that diminish health status and HRqol. The aim of this study was to measure health status and HRqol in a Spanish sample of obese patients with type 2 diabetes at cardiovascular risk and analy...

The aim of this population-based study is to analyze the association loneliness and physical health, pain, health-related quality life, mental cognitive performance, morbidity, use health services. Based on census, a stratified random sampling was chosen. A telephone interview conducted with 2,060 people over 65 years old, using GHQ-12 COOP-Wonca. An General Mental Health (GHQ-12) found, OR = 1...

BACKGROUND Functional status is considered an important measure of health status in primary care. The COOP-WONCA charts, which comprise six single-item scales, have mainly been used to determine functional ability in chronically ill patients. AIM A study was carried out to determine whether the charts are able to measure the degree of functional impairment associated with acute illness and th...