A Six-Month Randomized Controlled Trial of Whole Soy and Isoflavones Daidzein on Body Composition in Equol-Producing Postmenopausal Women with Prehypertension by Zhao-min Liu, Suzanne C. Ho, Yu-ming Chen, Jean Woo

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TB and poverty: the effect of rifampicin-resistant TB on household income by A. Ciobanu, V. Plesca, S. Doltu, M. Manea, L. Domente, A. Dadu

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Diabetes medication prescribing trends based on provider type and location in the United States by Susan D. Meeke, Megan M. Weemer

“…Background: As primary care physician numbers continue to decline, more patients with type 2 diabetes are likely to receive care from advanced practice providers (APPs), including physician assistants and nurse practitioners. …”
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A Proposal for an Intermediate Care Unit-Quality Measurement Framework by Joost D. J. Plate, Linda M. Peelen, Luke P. H. Leenen, Roderick M. Houwert, Falco Hietbrink

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Challenges and Barriers Faced by People with TB and Healthcare Workers Providing TB Care and Management – A Qualitative Study by S. Suseendar, Akhil Dhanesh Goel, T. Pritish Baskaran, V. R. Rehana, Pankaj Bhardwaj, Manoj Kumar Gupta, S. Srikanth, Suman Saurabh

“…Background: In tuberculosis (TB) care and management, there are practical challenges existing at the patient-provider level leading to implementation barriers at the primary care level. Objectives: The objective of the study is to explore the challenges and barriers faced by people with TB and health-care workers in TB care and management. …”
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Quality of Life, Depression, and Healthcare Resource Utilization among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Concomitant Hypertension and Obesity: A Prospective Survey by Andrew J. Green, Debbra D. Bazata, Kathleen M. Fox, Susan Grandy

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Advancing Behavioral HIV Prevention: Adapting an Evidence-Based Intervention for People Living with HIV and Alcohol Use Disorders by M. L. Armstrong, A. M. LaPlante, F. L. Altice, M. Copenhaver, P. E. Molina

“…Focus groups (FGs) were conducted with PLWHA who consume alcohol and with treatment providers at the largest HIV primary care clinic in New Orleans, LA. Overall themes that emerged from the FGs included the following: (1) negative mood states contribute to heavy alcohol consumption in PLWHA; (2) high levels of psychosocial stress, paired with few adaptive coping strategies, perpetuate the use of harmful alcohol consumption in PLWHA; (3) local cultural norms are related to the permissiveness and pervasiveness of drinking and contribute to heavy alcohol use; (4) healthcare providers unanimously stated that outpatient options for AUD intervention are scarce, (5) misperceptions about the relationships between alcohol and HIV are common; (6) PLWHA are interested in learning about alcohol’s impact on ART and HIV disease progression. …”
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A retrospective analysis of two tertiary care dizziness clinics: a multidisciplinary chronic dizziness clinic and an acute dizziness clinic by Phillip Staibano, Daniel Lelli, Darren Tse

“…Abstract Background Vertigo remains a diagnostic challenge for primary care, emergency, and specialist physicians. Multidisciplinary clinics are increasingly being employed to diagnose and manage patients with dizziness. …”
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Subjective Experiences and Sensitivities in Women with Fibromyalgia: A Quantitative and Comparative Study by P. De Roa, P. Paris, J. L. Poindessous, O. Maillet, A. Héron

“…This study presents subjective experiences and sensitivities reported by fibromyalgia patients, which should be considered in primary care to avoid medical nomadism, as well as stigmatization of the patients. …”
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Demographic and clinical characteristics of older people with multimorbidity accessing primary healthcare in Malawi: A cross-sectional study by Duncan Kwaitana, James Jafali, Maya Jane Bates, Dorothee van Breevoort, Thomas Mildestvedt, Eivind Meland, Eric Umar

“…In low- and middle-income countries, data on multimorbidity in primary care beyond prevalence is limited. Our study explored the demographic and clinical characteristics of multimorbidity among older people attending primary health care in Malawi. …”
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Active community inquiry facing COVID-19: Experiences in the Cumanayagua municipality, 2020 by Victor René Navarro Machado, Blanca Moracén Rubio, Danays Santana Rodríguez, Oskeymi Rodríguez González, Medelyn Oliva Santana, Guiguiola Blanco González

“…The implemented system was properly articulated to the family physician-nurse program at the primary care level.</p>…”
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Care home resident identification: A comparison of address matching methods with Natural Language Processing. by Víctor Suárez-Paniagua, Arlene Casey, Charis A Marwick, Jennifer K Burton, Helen Callaby, Isobel Guthrie, Bruce Guthrie, Beatrice Alex

“…This study aimed to develop and validate Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to identify care home residents from primary care address records.<h4>Methods</h4>The proposed system applies an NLP sequential filtering and preprocessing of text, then the calculation of similarity scores between general practice (GP) addresses and care home registered addresses. …”
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Building ADMISSION – A research collaborative to transform understanding of multiple long-term conditions for people admitted to hospital by Miles D Witham, Victoria Bartle, Sue Bellass, Jonathan G Bunn, Duncan Cartner, Heather J Cordell, Rominique Doal, Felicity Evison, Suzy Gallier, Steve Harris, Susan J Hillman, Ray Holding, Peta Leroux, Tom Marshall, Fiona E Matthews, Paolo Missier, Anand Nair, Mo Osman, Ewan R Pearson, Chris Plummer, Sara Pretorius, Sarah J Richardson, Sian M Robinson, Elizabeth Sapey, Thomas Scharf, Rupal Shah, Marzieh Shahmandi, Mervyn Singer, Jana Suklan, James MS Wason, Rachel Cooper, Avan A Sayer

“…To date, most research on MLTCs has been conducted in primary care or the general population with comparatively little work undertaken in the hospital setting. …”
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Factors influencing the integration of planetary health topics into undergraduate medical education in Ireland: a qualitative study of medical educator perspectives by Aisling Walsh, Oisin Brady Bates, Debbi Stanistreet

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Interdisciplinarity and intersectoriality in the Family Health Strategy and Nuclei of Support to Family Health: potentialities and challenges by Luís Felipe Ferro, Emelin Cristina da Silva, Ana Beatriz Zimmermann, Regina Célia Titotto Castanharo, Fernanda Rodrigues Leite de Oliveira

“…In this context, this study aims to understand the potentials and difficulties regarding the practice of interdisciplinary and intersectorial actions by ESF e NASF professionals of a Primary Care Unity of Curitiba. Through a qualitative-exploratory field research, 12 professionals from ESF and NASF were interviewed from November 2011 to January 2012. …”
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The problem of attainment to the dietary changes of hypertension in the context of Primary Health Care by Luciana Saraiva da Silva, Rosângela Minardi Mitre Cotta, Andréia Queiroz Ribeiro, Amanda Gomes Ribeiro

“…Changes in lifestyle are considered fundamental in the prevention and control of hypertension, which can be achieved through health education actions at the level of primary care. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of two strategies of nutrition and health education for the orientation of dietary changes indicated in the treatment of SAH. …”
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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Myasthenia Gravis: A Cross-Sectional Study of Two Tertiary Hospitals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Mohammed H. Alanazy

“…Collectively, the prevalence of depression among patients of the primary care clinics (PCC) as reported by 5 previous studies across multiple regions of the country was 15.8%. …”
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Tracking health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nepal by Meghnath Dhimal, Mandira Lamichhane Dhimal, KhemBahadur Karki, Doreen Montag, David A. Groneberg, Ulrich Kuch

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Pervasive systemic disparities: medical-related gaslighting, trauma, and distrust among LGBTQ+ people in the United States by Dustin Z. Nowaskie, Dehandra Blackwood, Frank Garcia

“…Likewise, LGBTQ+ people conveyed significantly less trust (ORs 0.46–0.53) in primary care providers (59.8% vs. 74.1%), medical specialists (56.5% vs. 71.7%), pharmaceutical companies (17% vs. 28%), insurance companies (15.9% vs. 29.3%), and U.S. healthcare systems (17.8% vs. 30.4%).DiscussionMedical-related gaslighting, trauma, and distrust are pervasive systemic disparities among LGBTQ+ people. …”
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Quality of Life and Psychometric Characteristics of Syrian Refugee Physicians Who Migrated to Turkey: A Cross-Sectional Study by Ahmet Keskin, Basri Furkan Dagcioglu

“…The median BDI score of the participants was 7 (min: 0, max: 41, IQR: 8), and the median BAI score was 5 (min: 0, max: 50, IQR: 8). Having primary care experience, having knowledge about the Turkish healthcare system, believing that they can adapt to work in refugee health centers, and not having a plan to return to their country were found to be associated with a higher score in at least one of the WHOQOL-BREF subdomains. …”
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