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General practitioners' promotion of healthy life styles
— what patients think | | Author(s) | Robyn Richmond, Linda Kehoe, Nick Heather |
| Journal title | Australia and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol 20, no 2, 1996 |
| Pages | pp 195-200 |
| Keywords | Keeping fit ; Diet ; Health [elderly] ; Tobacco smoking ; Alcoholism ; Exercise ; Personal relationships ; General practitioners ; Advisory services [elderly] ; Australia. |
| Annotation | This study examined the prevalence of cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, exercising to keep fit and dieting to lose weight among some 13,000 general practice patients aged 18-70 in Sydney, Australia. Perceptions of the role the general practitioner (GP) in advising about life style were also examined. More women than men reported dieting to lose weight; just over half of the men and women were exercising regularly to keep fit; 35% of men and 29% of women reported smoking; and 12% of men and 10% of women were drinking alcohol at levels considered hazardous or harmful. More young people smoked, drank, dieted to lose wight and exercised than older age groups. Most patients thought that GPs should be interested in their life-style behaviours, particularly smoking; but fewer (particularly women who drank excessively) reported receiving advice about their habits. GPs were more likely to give advice when smoking and drinking levels were very high. There were discrepancies between patients' expectations of the doctor's role in promoting healthy life-styles, and their likelihood of receiving advice. Developments in medical training in the 1990s may extend the way in which GPs engage in advising on issues of life-style. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980106216 A |
| Classmark | CE: CFD: CC: ETT: ETA: CEA: DS: QT6: IT: 7YA * |
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