[Educational program to improve knowledge and therapeutic range for self-controlled anticoagulated patients].

Introduction: Oral anticoagulation Self-control programs have demonstrated efficiency over recent years.

Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the level of knowledge and coagulation level of self-controlled anticoagulated patients after an educational program.

Design: A quasi-experimental study, pre-test and post-test.

Effectiveness of a self-management program for anticoagulated patients to improve their knowledge about treatment and time in therapeutic range.

Oral anticoagulation self-control programs have demonstrated efficiency and cost-effectiveness over recent years. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a training intervention focused on patients with antivitamin K anticoagulants included in a self-care program. For this, we made a quasi-experimental study, pretest and post-test, using a validated questionnaire with 2 measures, before and after an educational intervention about oral anticoagulation focused on patients that will initiate the self-control program in consultation.

[Increasing participation of primary care in the management of people with human immunodeficiency virus: hospital care professionals express their views].

Aim: To determine the opinions of infectious diseases professionals on the possibilities of monitoring patients with HIV in Primary Care.

Design: Qualitative study using in-depth interviews.

Location: Infectious Diseases Unit in the University Hospital "Virgen de la Victoria" in Málaga.

[Social class, health inequalities, and health-related behaviors of working people in Chile].

Objective: To analyze links between social class and health-related indicators and behaviors in Chilean workers, from a neo-Marxian perspective.

Methods: A cross-sectional study based on the First National Survey on Employment, Work, Health, and Quality of Life of Workers in Chile, done in 2009-2010 (n = 9 503). Dependent variables were self-perceived health status and mental health, examined using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12).