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Table 8 Patient self-reported frequency of advice received from their GP

From: An Australian general practice based strategy to improve chronic disease prevention, and its impact on patient reported outcomes: evaluation of the preventive evidence into practice cluster randomised controlled trial

 

Intervention N (%) (95% CI)

Control N (%, 95% CI)

Type of advice/referral

Baseline

Follow up

Baseline

Follow up

Healthy eating advicea

26 (11.0%; 7.0–15.0)

30 (15.8%; 10.6–21.0)

35 (13.1%; 9.1–17.2)

12 (5.8%; 2.6–9.0)

Physical activity advice

35 (14.4%; 10.0–18.8)

32 (20.5%; 14.2–26.8)

38 (13.5%; 9.5–17.5)

21 (12.0; 7.2–16.8)

Weight advice

25 (16.0%; 10.3–21.8)

16 (12.5%; 6.8–18.2)

34 (19.1%; 13.3–24.9)

16 (12.0%; 6.5–17.6)

Smoking advice

10 (43.5%; 23.2–63.7)

7 (58.3%; 30.4–86.2)

14 (58.3%; 38.6–78.1)

3 (23.1%; 0.2–46.0)

Alcohol advice

8 (50%; 25.5–74.5)

9 (16.4%; 6.6–26.1)

14 (100%)

7 (15.9%; 5.1–26.7)

  1. aComparison between intervention and control: Baseline X 2 = 0.4, p = 0.6; Follow up X 2 = 9.3, p = 0.002