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Abstract
Today is the era of prevention. Primary care professionals are in a good position to conduct primary prevention, health promotion and effectively encouraging patients to change their health behaviors. Modifiable lifestyle risk behaviors, for example, smoking, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity are the main causes of major non-communicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide. Patient centered communication is broadly endorsed as a central component of high quality health care.
The current study was carried out to gain a superior understanding of the extent and nature of behavioral change brief interventions delivered by family doctors as part of their routine practice in El-werdian family health unit (FHU), and Sanstefano family health center (FHC) in Alexandria governorate.
The study included 150 cases in the studied settings. The included participants were interviewed using an adapted questionnaire. Data were collected during a three-month period starting from January 2019 to March 2019.
Data about patient’s measures, reasons for doctor-patient encounter, prevalence of modifiable risk behaviors, patients’ readiness to change and counseling session applied to modify lifestyle behavioral risk factors were obtained. Also family physicians’ opinions and attitudes regarding patient care and barriers to change risky behaviors were explored.
The results of the present study can be summarized as follows:
The mean age of the studied cases was 43.21±17.09 years, Most of the cases were established patients (70%) and more than half of the patients (55.3%) came for chronic illness care, Most of the chronic patients (72.6%) had hypertension, while 44% had diabetes.