Publications by authors named "Pilar Kloppe"
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.
Introduction And Objectives: To assess the efficacy of a comprehensive program of secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in general practice.
Methods: A cluster randomized clinical trial was carried out in a regular general practice setting. Male and female patients aged under 86 years with a diagnosis of ischemic heart disease, stroke or peripheral artery disease were recruited between January 2004 and May 2005.
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.