Ares Sentenach-Carbo1, Carme Batlle1, Marcella Franquesa1,2, Elena García-Fernandez1,3, Laura Rico1, Laia Shamirian-Pulido1, Montse Pérez1, Eva Deu-Valenzuela1, Esther Ardite1, Anna N Funtikova4, Ramón Estruch5,6,7, Anna Bach-Faig8,9,10. 1. Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain. 2. REMAR-IVECAT Group, Health Science Research Institute Germans Trias i Pujol, Can Ruti Campus, Badalona, Spain. 3. Hospital de Mollet, Mollet del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain. 4. Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain. 5. Mediterranean Diet Foundation, Barcelona, Spain. 6. Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clinic, August Pi Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain. 7. CIBEROBN (Center for Research on Obesity and Nutrition), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. 8. Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain. abachf@uoc.edu. 9. Mediterranean Diet Foundation, Barcelona, Spain. abachf@uoc.edu. 10. Food and Nutrition Area, Barcelona Official College of Pharmacists, Barcelona, Spain. abachf@uoc.edu.
Abstract
BACKGROUND/ OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of this study was to explore physicians' adherence to the dietary pattern known as the Mediterranean diet (MD). As a secondary objective we assessed physicians' awareness on the benefits of the MD and of the possibility of prescribing it. SUBJECTS/ METHODS: Physicians' adherence to the MD was evaluated through the Spanish associations SEMERGEN and CAMFIC, who sent the validated PREDIMED screener to their affiliates. The results reflected a high, medium, low or very low level of adherence depending on total score. The sample was drawn between 2014 and 2016. The second questionnaire evaluated the physicians' knowledge of the MD and their opinion about recommending it. RESULTS: The PREDIMED test was answered by 422 Spanish physicians. In 8 out of 14 questions, more than 50% of the individuals scored only 1 point. However, 3 questions resulted in 1 point being scored by almost all physicians. Thus, on average, 55% of questions obtained 1-point scoring. The second questionnaire was answered by 212 physicians; 70% of them considered themselves to be aware of the benefits of the MD. More than 60% said they could invest 5 min of their time to recommend the MD. CONCLUSIONS: Primary care physicians do not show a high level of adherence to the MD and emphasize the need for creating tools to evaluate it in their patients. This research can be useful as both a database and a justification for the creation of a new protocol to help physicians increase their own and their patients' MD adherence.
BACKGROUND/ OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of this study was to explore physicians' adherence to the dietary pattern known as the Mediterranean diet (MD). As a secondary objective we assessed physicians' awareness on the benefits of the MD and of the possibility of prescribing it. SUBJECTS/ METHODS: Physicians' adherence to the MD was evaluated through the Spanish associations SEMERGEN and CAMFIC, who sent the validated PREDIMED screener to their affiliates. The results reflected a high, medium, low or very low level of adherence depending on total score. The sample was drawn between 2014 and 2016. The second questionnaire evaluated the physicians' knowledge of the MD and their opinion about recommending it. RESULTS: The PREDIMED test was answered by 422 Spanish physicians. In 8 out of 14 questions, more than 50% of the individuals scored only 1 point. However, 3 questions resulted in 1 point being scored by almost all physicians. Thus, on average, 55% of questions obtained 1-point scoring. The second questionnaire was answered by 212 physicians; 70% of them considered themselves to be aware of the benefits of the MD. More than 60% said they could invest 5 min of their time to recommend the MD. CONCLUSIONS: Primary care physicians do not show a high level of adherence to the MD and emphasize the need for creating tools to evaluate it in their patients. This research can be useful as both a database and a justification for the creation of a new protocol to help physicians increase their own and their patients' MD adherence.
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