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Table 4 Rates of optimal assessment and intervention practices for behavioural risk factors

From: Explaining the variation in the management of lifestyle risk factors in primary health care: A multilevel cross sectional study

Variable

 

Risk Factor Assessment

No (%) of all patients (n = 732)

No assessment for any risk factors

130 (17.8)

Assessment for 1 risk factor

77 (10.5)

Assessment for 2 risk factors

73 (10.0)

Assessment for 3 risk factors

56 (7.7)

Sub-optimal: Assessment for 3 or fewer risk factors

336 (45.9)

Optimal: Assessment for all four risk factors

396 (54.1)

Risk Factor Intervention 1

No (%) of patients with at least one risk factor recorded (n = 307)

No intervention offered for any risk factors identified

29 (9.4)

Intervention offered for some risk factors identified

13 (4.2)

Intervention offered for all risk factors identified

265 (86.3)

Sub-optimal: Intervention for none or some of the risk factors identified

42 (13.7)

Optimal: Intervention for all of the risk factors identified

265 (86.3)

  1. 1 Intervention: verbal advice, written advice, referral in current or previous consultation