Using general practitioners to recruit individuals with low socioeconomic position to preventive health checks is feasible: a cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT: Objective: To test whether demographic and health-related characteristics are associated with non-attendance of preventive health checks offered to individuals with low levels of education using proactive recruitment by the general practitioners. Design: A cross-sectional study. Setting: 32 general practice clinics in Copenhagen, Denmark. Subjects: A total of 549 individuals aged 45-64, with low levels of education, enrolled in the intervention group of a randomised controlled trial on preventive health checks offered by general practitioner. Main outcome measures: Non-attendance of the preventive health checks. Methods: (i) Descriptive characteristics of attendees and non-attendees and (ii) crude and adjusted multi-level logistic regression to exa

SUBMITTER: Kamstrup-Larsen N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6713093 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature