Barriers to implement screening for alcohol consumption in Spanish hypertensive patients.

Background: Alcohol intake and hypertension (HT) are interrelated public health problems with cost-effective interventions at the primary care level that, to date, are poorly implemented.

Objective: This study aims to explore the barriers to implementing alcohol interventions for people with HT in primary care.

Methods: As part of the project BASIS (Baseline Alcohol Screening and Intervention Survey), an internet survey from five European countries was developed to determine the role of alcohol in the management of HT in primary care practice.

Alcoholism and its treatment approach from a citizen perspective.

Introduction: The main objective of the study is to describe alcohol consumption in the general Spanish population, to discover citizens' opinion on their alcohol consumption, on alcoholism and on treatment approaches.  

Methods: In 2015 a cross-sectional study was carried out by means of a telephone survey. A representative sample was selected.

[SEMERGEN positioning for the treatment of alcohol disorders in primary care].

The present manuscript is based on the recommendations of a panel of health care professionals, including several experts in primary health care, psychiatry and addictions. The participants are recognized specialists in the treatment of alcohol use disorder. The panel met in Barcelona on 2015 April 22 with the aims of evaluating the current management of alcohol use disorder in primary health care and developing a strategy to address this problem, basing on the evidence and the recommendations of the scientific societies and national and international organizations.

Systematic depression screening in high-risk patients attending primary care: a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial.

Background: Systematic screening for depression in high-risk patients is recommended but remains controversial. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of such screening in everyday clinical practice on depression recognition.

Methods: A pragmatic, cluster randomized, controlled study that randomized primary care physicians (PCPs) in Spain either to an intervention or control group.

Functional impairment related to painful physical symptoms in patients with generalized anxiety disorder with or without comorbid major depressive disorder: post hoc analysis of a cross-sectional study.

Background: Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is the most frequent anxiety disorder in primary care patients. It is known that painful physical symptoms (PPS) are associated with GAD, regardless the presence of comorbid major depressive disorder (MDD). However the specific role of such symptoms in patients' functional impairment is not well understood.

Generalized anxiety disorder, with or without co-morbid major depressive disorder, in primary care: prevalence of painful somatic symptoms, functioning and health status.

Background: Painful physical symptoms (PPS) have received little attention in patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). The objective of the present study was to assess the prevalence of PPS in patients with GAD vs patients with GAD and co-morbid major depressive disorder (MDD) and a control group (patients neither with GAD nor MDD).

Methods: This is a cross-sectional, multi-center, epidemiological study, in primary care.