TY - JOUR T1 - Patients’ perspectives on BETTER 2 prevention and screening: qualitative findings from Newfoundland & Labrador JF - BJGP Open JO - Br J Gen Pract Open DO - 10.3399/bjgpopen17X101037 SP - BJGP-2017-0061 AU - Nicolette Sopcak AU - Carolina Aguilar AU - Candace I J Nykiforuk AU - Mary Ann O’Brien AU - Kris Aubrey-Bassler AU - Richard M Cullen AU - Melanie Heatherington AU - Eva Grunfeld AU - Donna P Manca Y1 - 2017/08/08 UR - http://bjgpopen.org/content/early/2017/08/03/bjgpopen17X101037.abstract N2 - Background Chronic disease prevention and screening (CDPS) has been identified as a top priority in primary care. However, primary care providers often lack time, evidence-based tools, and consistent guidelines to effectively address CDPS. Building on Existing Tools to Improve Chronic Disease Prevention and Screening in Primary Care (BETTER) is a novel approach that introduces a new role, that of the prevention practitioner; the prevention practitioner meets with patients, one on one, to undertake a personalised CDPS visit. Understanding patients’ perspectives is important for clinicians and other stakeholders aiming to address and integrate CDPS.Aim To describe patients’ perspectives regarding visits with a prevention practitioner in BETTER 2, an implementation study that was carried out after the BETTER trial and featured a higher proportion of patients in rural and remote locations.Design & setting Qualitative description based on patient feedback surveys, completed by patients in three primary care clinics (urban, rural, and remote) in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.Method Patients’ perspectives were assessed based on responses from 91 feedback forms. In total, 154 patients (aged 40–65 years) received ≥1 prevention visit(s) from a prevention practitioner and were asked to provide written feedback. In addition to demographics, patients were asked what they liked about their visit(s), what they would have liked to be different, and invited to make any other comments. Qualitative description was used to analyse the data.Results Four main themes emerged from patients’ feedback: value of visit (patients appreciated the visit with a prevention practitioner); visit characteristics (the visit was personalised, comprehensive, and sufficiently long); prevention practitioners' characteristics (professionalism and interpersonal skills); and patients’ concerns (termination of the programme and access to preventative care).Conclusion Patients appreciated the visits they received with a prevention practitioner and expressed their desire to receive sustained CDPS in primary care. ER -