Achieving health-promotion practice in primary care using a multifaceted implementation strategy: a non-randomized parallel group study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence-based healthcare recommendations exist for tobacco use, harmful alcohol consumption, low physical activity, and poor diet. However, the uptake of these recommendations in Swedish primary healthcare is poor, and the potential benefits for patients are not fully realized. Our aim was to evaluate the effect (i.e. the uptake) of a 12-month multifaceted implementation strategy to achieve a more health-promoting practice. We hypothesized that primary healthcare centers receiving this strategy would increase and sustain their health-promotion practices to a significantly greater extent than control centers, from baseline to the 6-month follow-up.

Methods

In a non-randomized parallel group study, 5 intervention centers and 5 matched control centers were compared

SUBMITTER: Nilsagard YE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11977894 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature