Publications by authors named "Mario R Sammut"
Background: For preventive interventions in general practice to succeed, patients' points of view must be taken into account in addition to those of GPs.
Objective: To explore patients' views and beliefs about the importance of lifestyle and preventive interventions, to assess their readiness to make changes to their lifestyle and their willingness to receive support from GPs.
Methods: Cross-sectional survey conducted by EUROPREV in primary care practices in 22 European countries.
Background/objective: As financial arrangements for vocational training (VT) in general practice/family medicine seemed to differ among European countries, the VT committee of EURACT compiled an overview to permit comparison.
Methods: A questionnaire with open and closed questions was e-mailed in March 2006 to representatives of the 34 different countries on the EURACT Council.
Results: Thirty completed questionnaires were returned (88% response rate).
Background: Disease prevention and health promotion are important tasks in the daily practice of all general practitioners (GPs). The objective of this study was to explore the knowledge and attitudes of European GPs in implementing evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention recommendations in primary care, to describe GPs' perceived barriers to implementing these recommendations and to assess how GPs' own health behaviors affect their work with their patients.
Methods: A postal multinational survey was carried out from June to December 2000 in a random sample of GPs listed from national colleges of each country.
Background: General practitioners (GPs) can promote good nutrition to patients and advise them about desirable dietary practices for specific conditions.
Objective: The objective was to assess GPs' knowledge and attitudes in implementing preventive and health promotion activities and to describe tools used by European GPs in advising patients about dietary practices.
Design: A postal survey was mailed to 1976 GPs from 10 GP national colleges to obtain information about beliefs and attitudes in prevention and health promotion, and an e-mail survey was sent to 15 GPs representing national colleges to obtain information about dietary guidelines.