Primary Health Care Research and Development

Article	Citations
Barriers to accessing eye care in Pakistan: a mixed methods study	42
Health promotion in an Australian Aboriginal community: the Growing Strong Brains® toolkit	35
Survey protocol: implementing Workload Indicators of Staffing Need in Iranian primary healthcare services	30
Biographical continuation: recovery of stroke survivors and their family caregivers in Taiwan	22
Association between cardiopulmonary function, health-related quality of life and cognitive impairment among the older nursing home residents in Shanghai, China	22
Pain management in infant immunisation: A cross-sectional survey of UK primary care nurses	21
Could self-reported physical performance help predict individuals at the highest risk of mortality and hospital admission events in clinical practice? Findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study	18
Building and changing business models: a qualitative study among Dutch physiotherapy primary healthcare organisations	18
Assessing the job preferences of senior medical students for mandatory service: a discrete choice experiment	17
Reforms and innovations in primary health care in different countries: scoping review	16
Access to episodic primary care: a cross-sectional comparison of walk-in clinics and urgent primary care centers in British Columbia	16
Diagnosis of acute cystitis in primary care: symptom-based versus urinalysis-based diagnosis	14
Training and development experiences of nursing associate trainees based in primary care across England: a qualitative study	14
Early structured communication between general practitioner, sick-listed patient, and employer: Results and lessons learned from a pragmatic trial in the Capacity Note project	14
Environmental house calls can reduce symptoms of chemical intolerance: a demonstration of personalized exposure medicine	13
Achieving the potential of mHealth in medicine requires challenging the ethos of care delivery	12
How persons with systemic mastocytosis describe the time between symptom onset and receiving diagnosis	12
Awareness and attitudes toward epilepsy among medical students and interns in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	12
Early detection efforts for colorectal and prostate cancer from the patient’s perspective over the course of 12 years: results of the KABOT survey study	12
Person-centred integrated primary care for refugees: a mixed-methods, stepped wedge design study to assess the impact	12
Developing weight navigation program to support personalized and effective obesity management in primary care settings: protocol for a quality improvement program with an embedded single-arm pilot stu	12
Dementia-related continuing education for rural interprofessional primary health care in Saskatchewan, Canada: perceptions and needs of webinar participants	11
The healthcare experiences of rural-living Canadians with and without a primary care provider: a qualitative analysis of open-ended cross-sectional survey responses	10
Research progress of health care in Yemeni children during the war: review	10
The current state of primary healthcare in Pakistan: a way forward for low-to-middle income countries	10

Reflections on China’s primary care response to COVID-19: roles, limitations and implications	10
An educational video to promote the use of stigma-free language by primary care clinicians in interactions with adults with type 2 diabetes: a qualitative study	10
Are remote health clinics primary health care focused? Validation of the Primary Health Care Engagement (PHCE) Scale for the Australian remote primary health care setting	9
The unrevealed links: periodontal health, human milk composition, and infant gut microbiome dynamics	9
‘They’re all individuals, none of them are on the same boat’: barriers to weight management in general practice from the rural nurse perspective	9
Chronic pain–mental health comorbidity and excess prevalence of health risk behaviours: a cross-sectional study	9
Reduction of anxiety symptoms among women within a collaborative care model and women’s health settings	9
Introduction of specialized heart failure nurses in primary care and its impact on readmissions	9
Diagnostic process of cancer in a health system without gatekeeping: a single centre survey analysis	9
‘Midlife care to migrant women: primary healthcare providers’ beliefs about barriers and facilitators’	9
Improving oral health service delivery: the patient perspective	8
Speaking the same language – a scoping review to identify the terminology associated with social prescribing	8
Development of a tool to support general practitioners to help adolescents with knee pain: an analysis using the Theoretical Domains Framework	8
Diagnostic accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire 2 (PHQ-2) in Qatar’s primary care settings	8
Health professionals’ use of smartphone apps for clients with low back pain: an observational study	8
The incentivized drug information services among community pharmacists: a multi-centre cross-sectional study in Indonesia	8
Working in hospitals during a pandemic: investigating the resilience among medical staff during COVID-19 outbreak through qualitative and quantitative research	8
Advancing multimorbidity management in primary care: a narrative review	8
Agreement and consistency in the triaging of musculoskeletal primary care referrals by vetting clinicians using a knowledge-based triage tool	8
Perceptions of primary care services among Afro-Peruvians in Lima, Peru	7
Entering a liminal state when becoming a social prescribing link worker and how it affects retention: findings from a UK qualitative study	7
From acute to chronic: the PREVENT protocol for understanding pain progression after emergency department visits	7
Discrepancies in the register of primary health care visits: a 6-year time series study from Finland	7
Providers’ experience on essential health services in primary healthcare units of Ethiopia during COVID-19: a qualitative study on impact and response	7
Committed leadership: a prerequisite for successful implementation of recovery during the workday	7
Perceptions of deprescribing for patients with limited life expectancy in primary care	7
Novel educational strategies to improve the telemedicine clinical skills of medical students	7
Evaluating physical activities in clinical diabetes: lifestyle scores hypothesis	7
Pilot test of Consensus Reporting Items for Studies in Primary care (CRISP)	6
Electronic referral system policy analysis: a qualitative study in the context of Iran	6
Evaluation of the introduction of a single-lead ECG device and digital cardiologist consultation platform among general practitioners in the Netherlands	6
Healthy and unhealthy eating after a behaviour change intervention in primary care	6
A qualitative examination of the implementation of a perinatal collaborative care program	6
A scoping review exploring reablement models of training and client assessment for older people in primary health care	6
What factors empower general practitioners for early cancer diagnosis? A 20-country European Delphi Study	6
Primary care practice-based interventions and their effect on participation in population-based cancer screening programs: a systematic narrative review	6
Investigating factors influencing recruitment and retention of adult community nurses: an exploratory qualitative study across NHS trusts in England	6
Do family physicians perceive electronic cigarette use as a harm reduction strategy for smokers? A survey from Istanbul	5
Postpartum family planning attitudes among Turkish women: development of a reliable and valid scale	5
The role of occupational therapy in primary care mental health services: a short report	5
Scoping review of outpatient health services utilization among women	5
Measures to prevent nosocomial transmissions of COVID-19 based on interpersonal contact data	5
National electronic primary health care database in monitoring performance of primary care in Kyrgyzstan	5
A qualitative exploration of Gestalt therapy and systemic pedagogy paediatric primary healthcare consultations in Agramunt (Spain)	5
Engaging community pharmacists in tuberculosis-directly observed treatment: a mixed-methods study	5
Social prescription for the elderly: a community-based scoping review	5
Factors contributing to uncontrolled hypertension in Ekurhuleni District, South Africa: the community health workers’ perspectives. A qualitative analysis	5
Peer-led digital health lifestyle intervention for a low-income community at risk for cardiovascular diseases (MYCardio-PEER): a quasi-experimental study protocol	5
Turnover intentions among rural-oriented medical students in Western China: a constructivist grounded theory study	5
General practitioner and nurse experiences of type 2 diabetes management and prescribing in primary care: a qualitative review following the introduction of funded SGLT2i/GLP1RA medications in Aotearo	5

Social determinants of health and family planning: impact of food and financial insecurity on contraceptive use and pregnancy intention	5
Primary health care workers perspective towards cancer in Fiji: a qualitative study	4
Challenges in recruitment and implementation of intervention studies including migrants	4
Stakeholders’ perspectives on facilitative supervision implementation in north-western Ghana: an exploration of adherence and quality of primary healthcare	4
Understanding factors affecting implementation success and sustainability of a comprehensive prevention program for cardiovascular disease in primary health care: a qualitative process evaluation stud	4
Take home messages from the implementation of the primary health care measurement and improvement (PHCMI) initiative in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR)	4
Does improving indoor air quality lessen symptoms associated with chemical intolerance?	4
The impact of COVID-19 on referrals among general practitioners and specialists in Shanghai, China	4
A multifaceted provider-centred intervention versus usual care to improve the recognition and diagnosis of depression in primary health care: a hybrid study	4
Self-perceived nutrition competence of primary care physicians in Singapore: a cross-sectional study	4
Utilizing primary care to engage underserved patients in a psychological intervention for chronic pain	4
Primary care and COVID-19	4
Exploring health worker absenteeism at public healthcare facilities in Chhattisgarh, India	4
Perspectives towards cultural competence and receptivity to cultural competence training: a qualitative study on healthcare professionals	4
Understanding post-COVID syndrome in healthcare workers: lessons for future pandemic response	4
Task-shifting and the recruitment and retention of eye care workers in under-served areas: a qualitative study of optometrists’ motivation in Ghana and Scotland	4
Developing Iranian sub-national Primary Health Care Measurement Framework: a study protocol	4
The health of detainees and the role of primary care: Position paper of the European Forum for Primary Care	4
Cannabis use experience of patients with chronic disease after revisions to the cannabis legalization regulations: a mixed-methods study in primary care settings in the south of Thailand	4
PURE PRIME: Implementing PUlmonary REhabilitation in PRIMary carE: a protocol for a randomized controlled feasibility trial	3
Long-term catheter management in the community: a population-based analysis of user characteristics, service utilisation and costs in England	3
World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (WONCA) Europe position paper on the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)	3
Strategies to address non-communicable diseases in the Commonwealth of Independent States countries: a scoping review	3
Infection preparedness of community health workers: implications for maternal and neonatal health services in Pakistan	3
Cultural competence training of dieticians: development and preliminary evaluation	3
A CBT-based training module for UK health visitors who support parents with excessively crying babies: development and initial evaluation	3
Parental childhood vaccine hesitancy and predicting uptake of vaccinations: a systematic review	3
Strategies for improving access to primary care services for homeless immigrants in England: a Delphi study	3
Evaluation and dynamic evolution of maternal and child health services in township health centers in ethnic minority areas of Guangxi, China	3
Pursuing the efficient operation of the primary healthcare hospitals in Thailand through efficiency assessment using the data envelopment analysis method	3
Amigos de Fibro (Fibro Friends): validation of an e-book to promote health in fibromyalgia	3
Strengthening primary health care: contributions of young professional-led communities of practice	3
Preventing decompensation among multimorbid outpatients in residential care: a cohort study with a six-month follow-up to prevent decompensation among multimorbid outpatients in residential care	3
Feasibility of a home-designed respiratory rehabilitation program for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	3
Food hygiene practice and associated factors among food handlers working in food establishments in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
A model proposal for qualitative data analysis, interpretation, and reporting: contextuality, reflectivity, and narrativity	3
Sex differences in chest pain presentation, triage assessment, and outcomes in urgent primary care: findings from the TRACE cohort study	3
Optimizing people’s movement across the health system: a scoping review of referral systems within a primary health care approach	3
Enabling primary healthcare service development with patient participation: a qualitative study of the internal facilitator role in Norway	3
Recruiting patients with persistent physical symptoms and no specific diagnosis for clinical trials in primary care: a qualitative study of four scenarios	3
TOPSE for babies in Norwegian: examining the reliability of a tool to measure parenting self-efficacy	3
Severity of migraine-like symptoms and its impact on executive functions in university students: a mediation model analysis	3
The roles and challenges of the primary health care systems in epidemic management: a scoping review	3
Young women’s perceptions of cervical screening in the UK: a qualitative study	3
Feasibility of utilizing the Modified Centor Criteria in adult virtual care	2
Primary health care professionals’ experiences of using the Tilburg Frailty Indicator: an interview study	2
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of family physicians about childhood vaccinations that are not in the routine vaccination schedule: a cross-sectional study	2
Randomised controlled trial of lifestyle interventions for abdominal obesity in primary health care	2
COVID-19 disease severity to predict persistent symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis	2
Assessing primary healthcare disaster preparedness: a study in Northern Italy	2
The community pharmacists’ opinion regarding pharmacist as immunizers for expanding their role and service in Thailand	2
Understanding primary care provider perspectives of the implementation of an integrated diabetes and mental health care solution	2
Clinicians’ experiences with cancer patients living longer with incurable cancer: a focus group study in the Netherlands	2
Risk factors for decompensation among multimorbid patients: analysis of a French Cohort with a 24-month follow-up	2
Assessment of the real-world impact of the Thai smoking cessation programme on clinical outcomes: protocol for a multicentre prospective observational study	2
How should policymakers, funders, and research teams mobilize to build the evidence base on universal early years services?	2
Developing theoretically underpinned primary care resources for patients with asthma: an exemplar from the IMP2ART trial	2
Saving lives by asking questions: nurses’ experiences of suicide risk assessment in telephone counselling in primary health care	2
Exploring readiness for implementing goal-oriented care in primary care using normalization process theory	2
Primary health care reforms: a scoping review	2
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding vaccination among community pharmacists	2
Primary health care in Austria: qualitative analysis of requirements and challenges in interprofessional collaboration from the perspective of health care and social professionals	2
Clinical psychologists’ perceptions of telephone consultation for low-income patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interview study	2
Mental health of rural doctors and influencing factors in Hebei, China	2
Implementation drivers scale: a new implementation measure to reduce mental health gaps	2
‘I’m a bit of a champion for it actually’: qualitative insights into practitioner-supported self-collection cervical screening among early adopting Victorian practitioners in Australia	2
Exploring public health nurses’ acceptability of clinical assessment tools in a Norwegian child health centre	2
Occupational therapy services in primary care: a scoping review	2
Barriers and facilitators influencing midwives’ implementation of South Africa’s maternal care guidelines in postnatal health: a scoping review	2
District nurses’ experiences of giving initial health care assessment to young adults applying for mental illness in primary care: a qualitative interview study	2
Home self-management experience of gynaecological tumour patients with lower limb lymphoedema: a qualitative study	1
Primary healthcare as a strategy for eliminating hepatitis C: the METRIC toolkit	1
The impact of telemedicine on physician time invested in primary care: a large population-based descriptive study	1
Barriers to health care access and utilization among aged indigents under the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Programme (LEAP): the perspective of users and service providers in north-western G	1
Healthy lifestyle promotion via digital self-help for mental health patients in primary care: a pilot study including an embedded randomized recruitment trial	1
Dignity encounters: the experiences of people with long-term illnesses and their close relatives within a primary healthcare setting	1
“It looks like a breadbox”: a pilot study investigating implementation of the Pepi-Pod® program with Aboriginal families in metropolitan South Australia – CORRIGENDUM	1
Patient and primary care practitioners’ perspectives on consultations for fibromyalgia: a qualitative evidence synthesis	1
The role of primary health care in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in 30 European countries: a retrospective descriptive study (Eurodata study)	1
Continuum of care in maternal and child health in Indonesia	1

Service evaluation of ‘GP at Door’ of accident and emergency services in Eastern England	1
Making community pharmacies psychologically informed environments (PIE): a feasibility study to improve engagement with people using drug services in Scotland	1
Different definitions of multimorbidity and their effect on prevalence rates: a retrospective study in German general practices	1
Preferences of people in choosing a family physician in rural areas: a qualitative inquiry from Iran	1
The impact of alternate nostril breathing on the severity and frequency of migraine attacks: a randomized control trial	1
Life, death, and statins: association of statin prescriptions and survival in older general practice patients	1
Amigos de Fibro (Fibro Friends): development of an educational program for the health promotion of fibromyalgia patients	1
Understanding healthcare providers’ experiences with video recording of patient consultations	1
Mental and physical health profile of Syrian resettled refugees	1
Health system-related barriers to prenatal care management in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of the qualitative literature	1
Measuring contraceptive self-efficacy in women: the Turkish validity and reliability study	1
Pharmacoeconomic implications of preference toward reference- versus generic-brand antidepressants in primary care	1
Capturing factors associated with frailty using routinely collected electronic medical record data in British Columbia, Canada, primary care settings	1
Coping with suicide loss: a qualitative study in primary health care	1
Factors that influence the use of direct access to allied health professionals in the Netherlands	1
Evaluating the implementation of online research training and mentorship among early-career family physicians in sub-Saharan Africa	1
Applying an authentic partnership approach to facilitate optimal health of Aboriginal children	1
Analysis of deprescription strategies of proton pump inhibitors in primary care: a narrative review	1
Validation of the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score and development of a country-specific diabetes prediction model for Turkey	1
Discretion and local health policy implementation: street-level bureaucrats and integrative and complementary therapies in Santos’ local health units	1
A pilot study to evaluate the quality of care in oral anticoagulant and antiplatelet use in patients with permanent atrial fibrillation in Irish general practice	1
Smoking cessation program preferences of individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a qualitative study	1
Patients’ and professionals’ experiences with remote care during COVID-19: a qualitative study in general practices in low-income neighborhoods	1
A scoping review of best practices in home enteral tube feeding	1
Physical activity and sedentary time after lifestyle interventions at the Norwegian Healthy Life Centres	1
A scoping review of guidelines and resources to promote evidence based prescribing for older people with sensory impairment	1
Organization of primary care	1
Conceptualizing National Advisory Boards in primary care research: application to the Two in One HIV and COVID screening and testing model	1
Effectiveness of caregiver-mediated intervention: a pilot study for children with neurodevelopmental disorders	1
Effect of eTansiyon smartphone application on hypertension control	1
PTSD and challenges among older Chinese in Shenzhen during COVID-19 pandemic: Trust in authority and medical professionals as moderators	1
Improving frequency and content of referral correspondence between general practitioners and psychiatrists: a cross-sectional descriptive study	1
Sexually transmitted infections in Belgian general practices: a nationwide continuing surveillance study, data from 2015 to 2020	1
Screening for depression as part of annual diabetic review using PHQ-9 scores: a pilot study	1
General practitioner preferences for telehealth consultations in Australia: a pilot survey and discrete choice experiment	1
International students’ perceived quality of university health centre services: an exploratory sequential mixed methods study	1
Evaluation of health-promoting self-care behaviors in hypertensive patients with concomitant chronic kidney disease in primary care	1
The impact of primary care funding on health inequalities: an umbrella review	1
Trustful conversations: a qualitative interview study on older patients’ experiences of the intervention Proactive healthcare in a Swedish primary care setting	1
Bridging the first-aid knowledge gap: a cross-sectional study of medical scope students in Syria	1
Family physicians’ approach to hoarseness: a qualitative study	1
Assessing inhabitants’ satisfaction and service needs: a cross-sectional survey of primary care service in Jiangsu Province, China	1
Gestational diabetes: changed health beliefs in migrant women from five Asian countries living in Sweden: a prospective qualitative study	1
Beliefs about illness: comparing foreign- and native-born persons with type 2 diabetes living in Sweden in a cross-sectional survey	1
Translation and cultural adaptation of evidence-informed leaflets on the work–health interface: a pragmatic approach to cultural adaptation	1
Changes in the smoking status of primary care professionals and their association with rates of tobacco treatment delivery: the TiTAN Greece & Cyprus tobacco dependence treatment training programm	1
Iranian primary health care network: challenges and ways forward	1
Challenges to women’s cancer control in Morocco: a qualitative study of lay advisors and civil society perspectives	1
Considering family trees as a useful tool in family medicine: a systematic review	1
Dementia and primary care teams: obstacles to the implementation of Portugal’s Dementia Strategy	1
PURE PRIME: Implementing pulmonary rehabilitation in primary care: a protocol for a randomized controlled feasibility trial – CORRIGENDUM	1
Roadmap for large-scale implementation of point-of-care testing in primary care in Central and Eastern European countries: the Hungarian experience	1
An innovative nurse practitioner-led service for children from families living in housing instability	1