Management of Victimized Patients in Greek Primary Care Settings: A Pilot Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Papadakaki ◽  
Eleni Petridou ◽  
Elena Petelos ◽  
Evi Germeni ◽  
Manolis Kogevinas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Primary Care Settings

A Web-based intervention used in general practice for people with excessive alcohol consumption

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 39-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Linke ◽  
R Harrison ◽  
P Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
General Practice ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Brief Intervention ◽  
Excessive Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Additional Tool ◽  
Primary Care Settings ◽  
Excessive Alcohol

Down Your Drink is a Web-based brief intervention for hazardous drinkers. We conducted a pilot study of its usefulness in general practice. Visitors to the Website were invited to complete the Fast Alcohol Screening Test and positive responders were offered a six-week interactive Web-based programme. There were 1 319 registrations in the six-month study period. In all, 815 (62%) registrants completed week one, and 79 (6%) stayed with the programme until the end. Usage of the Website was distributed through the day, with the highest levels between 10:00 and 14:00. Two focus groups with general practitioners were conducted to explore the potential for using the site in primary-care settings. Website interventions for excessive drinkers therefore appear to be feasible and may prove a useful additional tool for intervention in general practice.

Intrapatient Agreement on Phenomenology of Panic Attacks

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Katerndahl
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Panic Disorder ◽  
Symptom Severity ◽  
Panic Attacks ◽  
Initial Contact ◽  
Diagnostic Confidence ◽  
Primary Care Settings ◽  
Good Agreement

Panic disorder is common in primary care settings and such a physician is often a patient's initial contact with the health care system. Previous work concerning the homogeneity of panic phenomenology across patients is contradictory. The purpose of this pilot study was to assess the intrapatient homogeneity of panic attacks and to examine associations between measures of homogeneity and physicians' confidence in the diagnosis. Ten patients meeting DSM-III-R criteria for panic disorder completed a diary documenting the symptomatic phenomenology of five consecutive panic attacks. In addition, the physician rated his diagnostic confidence for each patient. Patterns of symptoms and their sequences during panic showed good agreement within patients as did patterns of abatement and of presence of a precipitating event. The physician's diagnostic confidence was inversely related to agreement on symptom severity and variance of duration of an attack. This study suggests intrapatient homogeneity on most measures.

scholarly journals mHealth Tools for the Self-Management of Patients With Multimorbidity in Primary Care Settings: Pilot Study to Explore User Experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. e171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anum Irfan Khan ◽  
Ashlinder Gill ◽  
Cheryl Cott ◽  
Parminder Kaur Hans ◽  
Carolyn Steele Gray
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
User Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Primary Care Settings

scholarly journals mHealth Tools for the Self-Management of Patients With Multimorbidity in Primary Care Settings: Pilot Study to Explore User Experience (Preprint)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anum Irfan Khan ◽  
Ashlinder Gill ◽  
Cheryl Cott ◽  
Parminder Kaur Hans ◽  
Carolyn Steele Gray
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Multiple Chronic Conditions ◽  
Primary Care Settings ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
Explicit Recognition

BACKGROUND Given the complex and evolving needs of individuals with multimorbidity, the adoption of mHealth tools to support self-management efforts is increasingly being explored, particularly in primary care settings. The electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePRO) tool was codeveloped with patients and providers in an interdisciplinary primary care team in Toronto, Canada, to help facilitate self-management in community-dwelling adults with multiple chronic conditions. OBJECTIVE The objective of study is to explore the experience and expectations of patients with multimorbidity and their providers around the use of the ePRO tool in supporting self-management efforts. METHODS We conducted a 4-week pilot study of the ePRO tool. Patients’ and providers’ experiences and expectations were explored through focus groups that were conducted at the end of the study. In addition, thematic analyses were used to assess the shared and contrasting perspectives of patients and providers on the role of the ePRO tool in facilitating self-management. Coded data were then mapped onto the Individual and Family Self-Management Theory using the framework method. RESULTS In this pilot study, 12 patients and 6 providers participated. Both patients and providers emphasized the need for a more explicit recognition of self-management context, including greater customizability of content to better adapt to the complexity and fluidity of self-management in this particular patient population. Patients and providers highlighted gaps in the extent to which the tool enables self-management processes, including how limited progress toward self-management goals and the absence of direct provider engagement through the ePRO tool inhibited patients from meeting their self-management goals. Providers highlighted proximal outcomes based on their experience of the tool and specifically, they indicated that the tool offered valuable insights into the broader patient context, which helps to inform the self-management approach and activities they recommend to patients, whereas patients recognized the tool’s potential in helping to improve access to different providers in a team-based primary care setting. CONCLUSIONS This study identifies a more explicit recognition of the contextual factors that influence patients’ ability to self-manage and greater adaptability to accommodate patient complexity and provider workflow as next steps in refining the ePRO tool to better support self-management efforts in primary care ahead of its application in a full-scale randomized pragmatic trial.

General practitioners' perceptions on management of epilepsy in primary care settings in Cape Town, South Africa: An exploratory pilot study

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mpoe Johannah Keikelame ◽  
Richard Melvyn Hills ◽  
Claudia Naidu ◽  
Angela de Sá ◽  
Virginia Zweigenthal
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Primary Care Settings
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