[Accomplishment of preventive activities proposed by resident doctors of Family Medicine in Primary Care and its relationship with communication skills].

Objective: To determine the offer of preventive activities by resident physicians of family medicine in the Primary Care consultations and the relation with their communication habilities.

Design: A descriptive multicentre study assessing medical consultations video recording.

Location: Eight Primary Healthcare centres in Jaen (Andalucia).

Controlled clinical trial comparing the effectiveness of a mindfulness and self-compassion 4-session programme versus an 8-session programme to reduce work stress and burnout in family and community medicine physicians and nurses: MINDUUDD study protocol.

Background: Health personnel are susceptible to high levels of work stress and burnout due to the psychological and emotional demands of their work, as well as to other aspects related to the organisation of that work. This paper describes the rationale and design of the MINDUUDD study, the aim of which is to evaluate the effectiveness of a mindfulness and self-compassion 4-session programme versus the standard 8-session programme to reduce work stress and burnout in Family and Community Medicine and Nursing tutors and residents.

Methods: The MINDUDD study is a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial with three parallel arms.

Communication with patients and the duration of family medicine consultations.

Objective: To determine the distribution of consultation times, the factors that determine their length, and their relationship with a more participative, patient-centred consulting style.

Design: Cross-sectional multicentre study.

Location: Primary Healthcare Centres in Andalusia, Spain.

Communication skills of tutors and family medicine physician residents in Primary Care clinics.

Aim: To determine the communicative profiles of family physicians and the characteristics associated with an improved level of communication with the patient.

Design: A descriptive multicentre study.

Location: Primary Healthcare Centres in Almeria, Granada, Jaen and Huelva.

[Prevalence and factors associated with clinical counselling on drug use among internal specialists residents of Andalusia (Spain)].

Objectives: To determine the frequency of offering clinical counseling against the consumption of alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs by internal specialist residents (EIR) of Andalusia, and the factors related to such advice.

Design: Multicenter cross-sectional study by self-administered questionnaire sent by mail.

Setting And Participants: EIR of Andalusia.

[Drugs consumption among Intern Specialists in Jaén (Spain) and their relationship to clinical counseling].

There are few studies on the prevalence of alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs consumption among Specialist Interns (EIR) and their counseling to the patients. A multicenter cross-sectional study is carried out, consisting in a self-administered validated questionnaire to describe the consumption of the EIR of 17 health centers in Jaen (Andalusia) (4 hospitals, 13 primary care) and their relationship with their counseling. 215 EIR participate with 81% of valid questionnaires: mean age 31.