Do family physicians advise younger people on cardiovascular disease prevention? A cross-sectional study from Slovenia

Petek, Davorina; Platinovsek, Rok; Klemenc-Ketis, Zalika; Kersnik, Janko

doi:10.1186/1471-2296-14-82

Table 2 Multilevel logistic regression analysis of patient and practice factors on received advice for prevention of CVD in the sample of younger people (regression coefficient above; statistical significance below in each cell)

From: Do family physicians advise younger people on cardiovascular disease prevention? A cross-sectional study from Slovenia

	Smoking	Weight	Physical activity	Cholesterol	Lifestyle	Children lifestyle	Written info
	N= 478	N=775	N=779	N=770	N=777	N=501	N=774
intercept	−3.89	-3.52	-3.45	-9.69	-3.12	-20.56	-3.32
intercept	0.16	0.17	0.12	0.00	0.22	0.00	0.29
Gender (female)	0.36	-0.07	0.07	-0.01	-0.20	0.14	0.23
Gender (female)	0.11	0.68	0.67	0.98	0.26	0.60	0.27
age	-0.01	0.01	0.00	-0.01	0.01	-0.06	-0.02
age	0.75	0.29	0.89	0.70	0.21	0.01	0.19
Male 35-45 years	1.42	1.17	0.81	-1.08	-0.04	1.04	-0.36
Male 35-45 years	0.05	0.05	0.14	0.23	0.95	0.66	0.05
education	-0.03	0.08	0.04	0.27	-0.15	-0.06	-0.20
education	0.87	0.54	0.77	0.09	0.25	0.74	0.09
Employment (not employed)	0.14	0.05	-0.07	0.46	0.34	-0.10	0.36
Employment (not employed)	0.65	0.85	0.76	0.10	0.17	0.81	0.10
Marital status (not married) ¹	'0.06	'0.01	0.00	0.09	-0.11	-0.56	-0.15
Marital status (not married) ¹	0.82	0.97	0.99	0.71	0.58	0.07	0.51
Self assessment of health ²	-0.26	-0.08	0.00	-0.06	0.14	0.11	0.08
Self assessment of health ²	0.03	0.36	0.96	0.60	0.12	0.47	0.47
BMI ³	0.03	0.01	0.00	0.04	-0.01	0.06	0.03
BMI ³	0.14	0.53	0.99	0.03	0.47	0.03	0.15
Hypertension ⁴	0.16	0.20	-0.19	-0.08	0.32	0.37	0.66
Hypertension ⁴	0.67	0.50	0.50	0.82	0.27	0.38	0.04
Practice size (large)	-0.03	-0.04	0.01	0.06	0.33	0.04	0.00
Practice size (large)	0.93	0.89	0.97	0.87	0.33	0.94	1.00
Practice loca- tion (urban)	-0.04	-0.21	-0.13	0.92	-0.18	-0.02	0.41
Practice loca- tion (urban)	0.91	0.60	0.71	0.04	0.66	0.96	0.42
Recall system CVD ⁵	-0.74	-0.93	-0.53	-0.76	-0.34	0.33	-0.60
Recall system CVD ⁵	0.14	0.05	0.22	0.16	0.49	0.61	0.32
E pt file ⁶	-0.48	-0.48	-0.75	-2.14	-1.29	-1.09	-0.92
E pt file ⁶	0.27	0.26	0.05	0.00	0.00	0.06	0.09
Case finding methods ⁷	0.21	0.25	0.20	0.00	0.29	-1.19	0.84
Case finding methods ⁷	0.73	0.67	0.70	1.00	0.62	0.15	0.29
Community resources ⁸	-0.06	-0.21	-0.07	-0.13	-0.07	-0.05	0.01
Community resources ⁸	0.70	0.15	0.58	0.42	0.63	0.82	0.96
Education organisation ⁹	-0.03	0.10	0.22	0.47	0.12	0.00	0.09
Education organisation ⁹	0.88	0.55	0.14	0.01	0.47	0.99	0.67
List size ¹⁰ linear	3.99	3.16	2.99	6.04	2.44	21.21	1.19
List size ¹⁰ linear	0.12	0.20	0.15	0.04	0.31	0.00	0.70
List size quadratic	-0.88	-0.72	-0.62	-1.19	-0.46	-5.30	-0.24
List size quadratic	0.13	0.19	0.19	0.07	0.40	0.01	0.72

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¹Marital status: 1= Married / cohabiting, 2= Single, Separated / divorced, Widowed.
²Self-assessment of health: How would you estimate your health status in general: 1= excellent, 2= very good and 3= good were aggregated to “good”, 4= fair and 5= poor to “poor”.
³Value of BMI (kg/m2).
⁴Yes/No answer of the patient if he/she has hypertension.
⁵Use of system for recall of people at risk for CVD.
⁶Computer-supported patient file system.
⁷If the practice uses case-finding methods to detect people with cardiovascular risk factors.
⁸Do practice physicians and nurses cooperate in local/community campaigns or actions?
⁹Education of providers: education of all nurses/GPs in the last five years on CVD, education of at least one nurse/GP on CVD in the last 15 months.
¹⁰Number of people on the patient list.

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