Diversity and ambivalence in general practitioners' attitudes towards preventive health checks - a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Systematic preventive health checks in primary care have been introduced in several countries. The Danish Health Service does not provide this service, but health checks are nevertheless being conducted unsystematically. Very little is known about the GPs' experience with this service.The purpose of our study is to describe GPs' attitudes towards and concerns about providing preventive health checks and to describe their experiences with the health checks that they provide in daily practice.

Methods

A qualitative descriptive study was conducted based on three semi-structured focus group interviews with 16 GPs from Central Region, Denmark. The focus group interviews took place at the Department of Public Health, Section for General Practice, Aarhus University in No

SUBMITTER: Sondergaard A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3406979 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature