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Health Prevention Programmes to Patients Through Their General Practitioners

NCT02351570 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 474

Last updated 2015-01-30

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Summary

By the health reform GKV in 2000 as well as by the competitive strengthening law GKV in 2007 in §20 SGB V the health insurance schemes have received an enlarged action frame in the primary prevention and the operational health support.

Through these paragraphs arises the possibility for citizens to let refund health-supporting programmes or health training of the health insurance schemes.

Doctor's recommendation is one of the most important predictors by therapy decisions of patients.

At the same time, primary prevention takes a very small part of the working hours of general practitioners.

Hence, is the aim of the present study to examine whether and how general practitioners could be incorporated in the mediation of prevention's offers.

To reach this aim, must be grasped first, to what extent general practitioners are already integrated into in the mediation of the primary prevention courses. There is up to now no information about whether general practitioners know about the GKV-improved prevention programmes for GKV-insured person and whether they are involved in their mediation. This research project will close this gap.

The aims of the study are:

1. to explore the roll of primary prevention in the general practitioner's consultation
2. to analyse which social institutions are responsible for primary prevention according to the general practitioner's opinion
3. to explore which primary prevention's programmes do general practitioners in their consultation recommend
4. to analyse which factors play a role in the mediation
5. to explore whether general practitioners with §20 are familiar.

This is a mixed methods study which combines a mail survey of all general practitioners in Berlin with focus groups of 25 general practitioners.

In this study all general practitioners of Berlin (n=1300) will be mailed. Participants for the focus groups are invited from the pool of teaching doctors of the Institute for General Medicine at the Charite.

After both methods are analyzed on their own, the triangulation of the interpretation of both data sets will be done to find possible answers of the study questions. Bi-directionality of results will contribute to find possible interpretations of the survey responses in the results of the focus group discussions, as well as the results of the focus groups discussions could be explained by the results of the survey (Flick).

Conditions

  • Prevention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Charite University, Berlin, Germany

    collaborator OTHER

  • Berlin School of Public Health

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-11-30
Primary Completion
2011-02-28
Completion
2011-03-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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