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- Title
Computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) in primary care.
- Authors
Ketola, E; Klockars, M
- Abstract
<bold>Objectives: </bold>We aimed to study the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among 11,000 inhabitants in Northern Helsinki, and to identify high-risk individuals in the area and direct them to the local primary-health-care-centred CVD-risk-factor prevention programme.<bold>Method: </bold>We conducted a computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI), a descriptive survey and primary care unit searching for CVD risk factors within the population under its responsibility. Six hundred and sixty-seven individuals aged 18-65 years out of 1000 randomly chosen inhabitants were interviewed using CATI. We measured the prevalence of self-reported CVD risk factors: smoking, blood pressure, last measured total serum cholesterol, body mass index (BMI), alcohol consumption, diabetes, physical exercise habits, positive family history of CVD/diabetes and personal history of CVD.<bold>Results: </bold>Sixty-seven per cent of the sample was interviewed. Nineteen per cent did not have a telephone and 3% refused to be interviewed. Eleven per cent did not respond. Persons with high cardiovascular risk scores were observed mainly in the oldest age group. In the total sample, 23% of women and 28% of men were estimated to be at high risk of coronary artery disease. Gender differences were seen only in one age-group: 45-54-year-old men reporting higher risk-factor scores. The results were analysed using the Statistical Analysis System (SAS).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>The CATI-method is a useful tool in screening of high-CVD-risk patients and in guiding them to local CVD primary prevention programmes.
- Subjects
FINLAND; CARDIOVASCULAR disease prevention; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; DEMOGRAPHY; INTERVIEWING; PREVENTIVE health services; PRIMARY health care; SEX distribution; TELEPHONES; DISEASE prevalence; COMPUTER-aided diagnosis
- Publication
Family Practice, 1999, Vol 16, Issue 2, p179
- ISSN
0263-2136
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/fampra/16.2.179