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Correlates of Physicians' Prevention-Related Practices
Findings From the Women Physicians' Health Study
Erica Frank, MD, MPH;
Richard Rothenberg, MD, MPH;
Charles Lewis, MD;
Brooke F. Belodoff, MS
Arch Fam Med. 2000;9:359-367.
Background Determinants of physicians' prevention-related counseling and screening practices are not well understood. Such determinants are worth knowing because we can then intervene on malleable variables and produce physicians with stronger prevention-related skills. Of the few such variables that have been examined, they have typically only been studied in univariate analyses or in small or otherwise limited populations and have been especially sparsely studied in women physicians.
Objective To explore the effect of potential counseling- and screening-related variables in 4501 respondents to the Women Physicians' Health Study, a questionnaire-based study of a representative sample of US women MDs.
Results Being a primary care practitioner and practicing a related health habit oneself were significantly correlated with reporting counseling and screening for all prevention-related variables examined. Current attempts to improve a related habit oneself, ethnicity, region, practice site, and amount of continuing medical education were sometimes significantly correlated with counseling and screening; most other variables studied (ie, personal health status, a personal or family history of disease, control of work environment, and career satisfaction) were rarely significantly correlated.
Conclusions Being a primary care practitioner and having related healthy habits oneself were the most significant correlates of US women physicians' self-reported prevention-related counseling and screening practices. These findings suggest potential new directions for physician training.
From the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine (Drs Frank and Rothenberg), and Rollins School of Public Health (Drs Frank and Rothenberg and Ms Belodoff), Emory University, Atlanta, Ga; and the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of California, Los Angeles (Dr Lewis).
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