Impact of training primary care physicians in behavioral counseling to reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors in Ecuador

• Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Main Authors: Manuel E. Baldeón, Marco Fornasini, Nancy Flores, Philip A. Merriam, Milagros Rosal, Juan C. Zevallos, Ira Ocken
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2018
• Subjects: Cardiovascular diseases; health human resource training; diabetes mellitus; type 2; cholesterol; HDL; LDL; blood pressure; Ecuador; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Quito
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.139; https://doaj.org/article/9e24a474463f40958cf57d56e1b3f49a

Objective. To assess the feasibility of implementing a physician-based, patient-centered counseling intervention model in Ecuador to improve the ability of primary care physicians (PCPs) to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among patients. Methods. This was a randomized clinical trial...