Atencion primaria
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
[Do people attending clinics at our health centre know the amount of alcohol consumption that becomes detrimental to health?].
To evaluate our patients' knowledge of the effects of excess drinking; b) to compare this with their awareness of the effects of their day-to-day drinking habits. ⋯ It appears necessary to increase the information given to young persons about harmful levels of alcohol intake; b) we found no clear evidence of risk drinking among younger persons; this will require questioning about their week-end drinking habits; c) risk drinkers know the limits of consumption that can damage their health, but their alcohol consumption is incongruent with this knowledge.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
[Effectiveness of non-pharmacological primary care methods for giving up tobacco dependency].
To determine the effectiveness of a systematic and intensive programme of tobacco counselling, as against brief anti-tobacco counselling. ⋯ The study will define the role of nursing professionals in taking patients off tobacco and will help define the effectiveness of non-medical methods to achieve this.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
[Group versus individual education for type-2 diabetes patients].
To compare the effectiveness of group (GE) and individual (IE) health education in type-2 diabetes patients, and identify the improvement in knowledge, metabolic control and risk factors. ⋯ Health education on diabetes improved knowledge of the disease, metabolic control and cardiovascular risk factors. The two educational methods evaluated were equally effective.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
[Urinary infections without complications: comparison of a treatment with norfloxacin for 7 days versus norfloxacin for 3 days].
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
[Tobacco detoxication at a primary care clinic: efficacy of medical counseling, minimal intervention and nicotine replacement therapy at the one-year follow-up].
The main objective was to compare the efficacy of one-off tobacco counselling and of the systematic minimum intervention on making people give up smoking. A secondary aim was to evaluate the efficacy of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in the context of a primary care consultation. ⋯ Primary care is a suitable context for an intervention against tobacco dependency, through the use of any of the established interventions: one-off medical counselling, systematic minimal intervention, or specialist drug treatment through NRT. Therefore, these kinds of intervention must form part of PC clinics' daily activity.