All in the family: times are changing.
Publication year
2008Source
European Journal of General Practice, 14 Suppl 1, 1, (2008), pp. 25-27ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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Organization
Primary and Community Care
Journal title
European Journal of General Practice
Volume
vol. 14 Suppl 1
Issue
iss. 1
Page start
p. 25
Page end
p. 27
Subject
EBP 3: Effective Primary Care and Public Health; NCEBP 7: Effective primary care and public healthAbstract
BACKGROUND: General practitioners are familiar with the fact that individual use of care is determined by the family. This paper describes to what extent patterns found in the 1970s can still be replicated in the early 21(st) century, analyzing the impact of the family on frequency of presenting minor illnesses in general practice. METHODS: We used the data of the families in the CMR database during two five-year periods: 1971-1975 and 2001-2005. All episodes of minor illness were registered using the same classification criteria in both studies. The population under study was divided in low and medium/high social class. Pearson correlation coefficients and a hierarchical linear model were used to analyse the impact of family on the frequency of presenting minor illnesses. RESULTS: Correlations between parents (M/F) were stronger in 1971-1975 than in the 2001-2005 period. The influence of the family on presenting minor illness in general practice has decreased from 27.7 to 20.3%. CONCLUSION: Though the influence of the family on presenting minor illness in general practice has decreased, nowadays (2001-2005) still we found strong correlations between family members in presenting morbidity to the GP.
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