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{"title":"'You would rather not fill your body with pills'-patient perspectives on polypharmacy and medication reviews by pharmacists in general practice.","authors":"Josefine Graabæk Als, Janus Laust Thomsen, Sabrina Storgaard Sørensen, Søren Paaske Johnsen, Camilla Hoffmann Merrild","doi":"10.1080/02813432.2025.2451660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2025.2451660","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Polypharmacy is widespread. The demographic shift toward older patients receiving multiple medications increases risk and drug-related problems in these patients.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate patient perspectives on polypharmacy and the experienced effects of medication reviews by pharmacists in general practice.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Twenty-two semi-structured interviews with patients with polypharmacy (>5 medications) from 6 different general practice clinics in the North Denmark region. The interviewees were from the intervention arm of a randomized clinical trial and had received a medication review with a pharmacist in addition to the usual annual check-up in general practice. Participants were interviewed at baseline (no later than 2 weeks after the medication review) and again at follow-up (6 months after the medication review). The interviews were transcribed verbatim and thematically analyzed with an inductive approach.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The patients' narratives show that they face many difficulties in their everyday lives, making it hard for them to live up to society's ideal of what it is to live a healthy life. The interviewees were generally positive toward the intervention and felt comfortable having a pharmacist conduct the medication review in their usual general practice clinic. Some interviewees gained more insight into their medication from the review.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Patient narratives give a comprehensive understanding of the challenges of polypharmacy. Having pharmacists conduct medication reviews in general practice could ensure more time and focus on patients and their medication management. The combined knowledge of physicians, nurses, and pharmacists regarding thorough polypharmacy management is recommended.</p>","PeriodicalId":21521,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142971999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating general practitioners' focused lung ultrasound competence and findings in patients with suspected community-acquired pneumonia in general practice.","authors":"Julie Jepsen Strøm, Camilla Aakjær Andersen, Martin Bach Jensen, Janus Laust Thomsen, Christian B Laursen, Søren Helbo Skaarup, Hans Henrik Lawaetz Schultz, Malene Plejdrup Hansen","doi":"10.1080/02813432.2024.2447083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2024.2447083","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To evaluate general practitioners' (GPs') ability to perform focused lung ultrasound (FLUS) following a training program and assess FLUS feasibility in general practice. Also, to describe FLUS findings and evaluate GPs' ability to interpret these in adults with acute lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) when pneumonia is suspected and assess GPs' perception of FLUS impact.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Nine GPs, using point-of-care ultrasound, completed a FLUS training program. Adults (≥ 18 years) with acute cough (< 28 days) and at least one other symptom of acute LRTI, where the GP suspected pneumonia, were subsequently included. All patients received FLUS. The GPs reported FLUS findings, feasibility, and perception of FLUS impact. Recorded FLUS videos from all patients were reviewed by two specialists (Specialist Reference). The specialists assessed FLUS image quality. Agreements between the GPs and the Specialist Reference on FLUS findings were used to evaluate GPs' ability to interpret FLUS.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 91 patients included, FLUS image quality was acceptable or higher in 84 patients (92.4%). FLUS proved feasible with only two scans not completed. The GPs reported FLUS pathological findings in 51.7% of patients in 78% agreement with the Specialist Reference and Cohen's kappa 0.56. Focal B-lines represented the most frequent pathological findings. The GPs perceived that FLUS impacted change in tentative diagnosis and/or plans for treatment and/or visitation in 29 (32.0%) of patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>After the training, the GPs performed FLUS well. Interpretation of FLUS pathology presence was of moderate agreement. The GPs perceived that FLUS had impact on patient management.</p><p><strong>Trial registration number: </strong>ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04711031.</p>","PeriodicalId":21521,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142906964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"They paid attention to the whole of me in some way, both physically, mentally, and everything in between: a qualitative study of patients' experiences of interdisciplinary rehabilitation (PREVSAM) in primary care for musculoskeletal disorders.","authors":"Annika Ekhammar, Sofia Fridén, Maria E H Larsson","doi":"10.1080/02813432.2024.2447084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2024.2447084","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To explore and describe patients' experiences and perceptions of rehabilitation according to the rehabilitation model 'Prevention of sickness absence through early identification and rehabilitation of at-risk patients with musculoskeletal pain' (PREVSAM).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A qualitative study was conducted, with individual semi-structured interviews analysed using qualitative content analysis. Fifteen patients from three primary care rehabilitation clinics in Sweden who had undergone rehabilitation based on the PREVSAM model participated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Four categories were identified from the participants' experiences: Gratitude for the holistic view, Challenging but clarifying to create a health plan, Different needs for addressing work-related factors, and Difficulties and negative experiences. From these categories, an overarching theme was conceptualised: <i>Grateful for being seen for who I am and given the care I need</i>.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Participants were generally positive towards the PREVSAM model. The addition of occupational therapy and psychological treatment to physiotherapy was seen by many, albeit not all, as enriching the rehabilitation. Collaboration with the workplace was mainly considered 'good in theory'. The wide variation in the need for support underscore the importance of person-centredness.</p>","PeriodicalId":21521,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142897176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<i>The last among the first:</i> Christian Fredrik Borchgrevink (1924-2024) in Memoriam.","authors":"Jørund Straand, Per Olav Hjortdahl, Dag Bruusgaard","doi":"10.1080/02813432.2024.2442845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2024.2442845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21521,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142882932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A 'normal' life: a qualitative study exploring parents' experiences of everyday life with a child diagnosed with atopic dermatitis and atopic comorbidities.","authors":"Gitte Færk, Elisabeth Søndergaard, Lone Skov, Kirsten Skamstrup Hansen, Susanne Reventlow","doi":"10.1080/02813432.2024.2440777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2024.2440777","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Atopic dermatitis (AD) and related atopic diseases are among the chronic health conditions that are becoming more common in children. Children with AD may develop atopic comorbidities, which makes it more difficult to manage treatment and necessitates more precautions in the child's everyday life. The parents of chronically ill children play a key role as the children's primary carers. This article explores the experiences of parents with the everyday tasks related to their children's illnesses.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Face-to-face interviews in the Capital Region of Denmark, with eleven families with children, aged between one and five years, with AD and at least one atopic comorbidity (food allergy, allergic rhinoconjunctivitis or asthma).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We argue that, aside from the immediate tasks directly linked to the child's treatments, there are numerous other types of tasks, both inside and outside the home, that emerge when a family adjusts to living with a child with AD and atopic comorbidities. We present three major strategies that parents use to protect their child: risk avoidance, pursuing a normal childhood, and good parenting. These strategies are closely related to the parents' wish to give their child as normal a childhood as possible.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Based on the findings, we suggest that healthcare professionals, beside the medical examination and treatment, are sensitive and attentive towards the large amounts of invisible work that parents of children with AD and atopic comorbidities accomplish and maintain awareness that parents may downplay the workload. Knowing the patients as persons can help facilitate and strength a trusting relationship.</p>","PeriodicalId":21521,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142878051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"General practitioners' barriers to cross-sectoral collaboration on pregnant women with vulnerabilities: a cross-sectional survey in Danish general practice.","authors":"Louise Brygger Venø, Line Bjørnskov Pedersen, Jens Søndergaard, Ruth Kirk Ertmann, Dorte Ejg Jarbøl","doi":"10.1080/02813432.2024.2432371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2024.2432371","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Pregnancy vulnerability contributes to poor perinatal mental health. Proper cross-sectoral collaboration may mitigate perinatal mental health problems. General practitioners (GPs) often face barriers when assessing pregnancy vulnerability, but little is known about GPs' perceived barriers to the cross-sectoral collaboration on vulnerable pregnant women.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To explore GPs' barriers to cross-sectoral collaboration on pregnant women with vulnerabilities, and how barriers are associated with the organization of antenatal care (ANC) and general practice characteristics.</p><p><strong>Design, setting and subjects: </strong>A cross-sectional questionnaire study among Danish GPs (<i>n</i> = 3465).</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>Descriptive statistics according to the Theoretical Domains Framework describes the barriers to collaboration. Analytical statistics with ordered logistic regression models demonstrate associations between selected barriers (the main outcome measures) and organization of ANC, GP and practice, characteristics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 760 GPs (22%) participated. Perceived GP barriers to collaboration were lacking knowledge of ANC levels relevant to vulnerable pregnant women, insufficient information on vulnerability indicators from collaborating parties, heavy workload and insufficient remuneration for collaborative meetings. Being young were associated with insufficient GP knowledge of ANC levels. Old age was associated with less likelihood of experiencing heavy workload as a barrier.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Barriers to collaboration on vulnerable pregnant women were associated with some GP-organizational characteristics including low experience in collaborating with partners in ANC, and GP characteristics, such as age. Reducing general practice workload, e.g. by reorganizing priority areas, releasing more time to vulnerable patients, and improving cross-sectoral information sharing on vulnerability might improve collaboration on vulnerable pregnant women.</p>","PeriodicalId":21521,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142795093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Care in the era of digital health: experiences from Norwegian general practitioners.","authors":"Damoun Nassehi, Ellen Ramvi","doi":"10.1080/02813432.2024.2437417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2024.2437417","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study explores the experiences of General Practitioners (GPs) in Norway, examining the role of care in their practice and the impact of digital health technologies on their caregiving approach.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A qualitative study employing semi-structured interviews. The data was analysed by systematic text condensation.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Conducted in various general practice settings within an urban region in southwestern Norway.</p><p><strong>Subjects: </strong>Eleven GPs were interviewed, chosen to reflect a diverse mix of ages, genders, and professional experiences.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings reveal that care occupied a central and multifaceted role in GPs daily practice, and that the care aspect of their practice was experienced as a source of personal fulfilment. Technologies such as Secure Digital Messaging (SDM) and Electronic Health Records could enhance the efficiency of care delivery and facilitate better management of patient interactions, however these technologies also present challenges in maintaining the depth of personal engagement that is central to the care ethics that characterise their caring role. The GPs emphasized the necessity of integrating digital tools in a way that supports the relational and ethical foundations of their caregiving role.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study underscores the enduring importance of care in general practice, even as digital technologies become increasingly prevalent. GPs maintain their caregiving roles by navigating the complexities of digital tools, highlighting the need for a careful balance between leveraging digital advancements and preserving the core values of care. The findings suggest a need for ongoing evaluation of digital tools to align them with the ethical foundations of care in general practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":21521,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142786847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A systems perspective on gaps in the person-centered sick leave and rehabilitation process: a Swedish interview study.","authors":"Märit Löfgren, Karin Törnbom, Daniel Gyllenhammar, Lena Nordeman, Gun Rembeck, Cecilia Björkelund, Irene Svenningsson, Dominique Hange","doi":"10.1080/02813432.2024.2434123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2024.2434123","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Consensus on priorities to optimize the sick leave and rehabilitation process (SRP) is lacking.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To explore perspectives of stakeholders in the SRP on bridging the gap between desired process scope, and actual practice, from a multi-professional, multi-organizational, and interdisciplinary approach.</p><p><strong>Design and setting: </strong>Focus group interviews were conducted with various SRP frontline professionals in Region Västra Götaland, Sweden, using purposive sampling to capture a range of experiences. Participants discussed their perceptions of critical changes and priorities needed to meet patients' SRP needs in a primary care context. All interviews were analyzed using systematic text condensation, as described by Malterud.</p><p><strong>Subjects: </strong>General practitioners (<i>n</i> = 6), rehabilitation coordinators and licensed healthcare professionals from primary healthcare (<i>n</i> = 13), administrators from the Social Insurance Agency, the Employment Agency and Social Services (<i>n</i> = 12).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Through data analysis, the following themes emerged: 1) The need for rules and regulations to enable coherent process governance 2) Challenges and opportunities in person-centered SRP: Professional collaboration, organizational priorities, and the need for enhanced leadership, and 3) Balancing resources and patient needs in the SRP: How to improve care quality and accessibility. In summary, participants mainly discussed how to improve process efficiency and quality of care while balancing available resources and a heavy workload. A main goal was to prevent negative spirals of suboptimal decision-making in individual cases, which could lead to increased work, unfortunate outcomes, and patient suffering.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This qualitative study indicated that gaps between a desired process scope and actual practice might be bridged by enabling coherent cross-organizational process governance, prioritizing person-centered ways of working, and balancing available resources and workload. The above changes were believed to improve process quality and overall efficiency.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>The study project plan was pre-registered on September 21st, 2020, in the database FOU i VGR (researchweb.org), project number 274941.</p>","PeriodicalId":21521,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142771822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the impact of mental and work-related stress on sick leave among middle-aged women: observations from the population study of women in Gothenburg, Sweden.","authors":"Kirsten Mehlig, Amanda von Below, Kristina Holmgren, Cecilia Björkelund, Lauren Lissner, Ingmarie Skoglund, Magnus Hakeberg, Dominique Hange","doi":"10.1080/02813432.2024.2380925","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02813432.2024.2380925","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate whether mental and work-related stress predicts a one-year incidence of sick leave in a cohort of middle-aged working women.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>The 2016/17 survey was part of the Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, Sweden, with registry data information on sick leave during one year pre- and post-baseline.</p><p><strong>Subjects: </strong>A cohort of women aged 38 and 50 in 2016/17 (<i>n</i> = 573; 68% participation), of which 504 women were gainfully employed and not on sick leave ± 2 weeks around baseline examination; 493 women had complete data on stress exposure.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We studied associations between self-assessed mental and work-related stress and incident sick leave of >14 days during the year following the baseline examination. We used multiple logistic regression, adjusting for age and previous sick leave, and additionally for sleep quality, well-being, and physical activity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, 75 women (16%) experienced at least one period of sick leave after baseline. Permanent stress during the last five years almost tripled the risk for incident sick leave, OR = 2.8 (95% CI 1.2-6.3), independent of previous sick leave, OR = 2.3 (95% CI 1.3-4.2). Among 21 specific work-related problems, conflicts at work, OR = 2.2 (95% CI 1.3-3.6), and low decision latitude, OR = 1.7 (95% CI 1.0-2.9), were associated with incident sick leave. The association with conflicts at work remained upon further covariate adjustment.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Low decision latitude and conflicts at work are risk factors for incident sick leave among working women. The impact of conflicts at work, irrespective of own involvement, may indicate a specific vulnerability among women of interest for future interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":21521,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care","volume":" ","pages":"704-713"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11552249/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141789032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Primary healthcare professionals' attitudes toward patients with current or previous drug use.","authors":"Lars Garpenhag, Disa Dahlman","doi":"10.1080/02813432.2024.2349063","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02813432.2024.2349063","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>People with current or previous drug use (PCPDU) often lack long-term healthcare contacts in primary healthcare (PHC). While international research has shown negative attitudes toward PCPDU in healthcare, PHC professionals' attitudes toward PCPDU have not been assessed in Sweden. The aim of this study was to investigate PHC professionals' attitudes to PCPDU, and to compare attitudes toward people who actively use illicit drugs with those toward patients in opioid assisted treatment (OAT).</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>In this survey study, respondents were asked for background data, and their attitudes toward patients using illicit drugs, OAT patients and patients with depression were assessed by using an adapted version of the Medical Condition Regard Scale (MCRS).</p><p><strong>Setting and subjects: </strong>Nurses and physicians at primary healthcare centers (PHCCs) in Skåne, Sweden.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>Mean MCRS scores, dichotomized responses to MCRS items, and associations between MCRS score and background covariates (age, sex, profession and duration of professional experience).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Eighty-nine PHC professionals from 13 PHCCs responded (approximately 39% of relevant workforce). The median MCRS score was 44 for patients with illicit drug use and patients in OAT, and 51 for patients with depression. Drug use and OAT displayed similar minimum, maximum and interquartile range values as well, while scores regarding depression displayed a higher minimum value and smaller spread. No significant associations were found between background covariates and MCRS scores for either drug use or OAT.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results indicate widespread negative attitudes to PCPDU, with implications for health equity in the clinic. Further studies are needed to see if the results reflect attitudes in Swedish PHC in general.Key PointsPeople with current or previous drug use (PCPDU) often lack necessary primary healthcare (PHC) and are commonly subject to prejudice.Swedish PHC professionals held more negative attitudes toward PCPDU than toward patients with depression.Attitudes toward patients with active drug use and patients in opioid assisted treatment (OAT) were almost identical.Study findings have potential implications for the health of PCPDU as well as health equity in the clinic.Widespread negative attitudes to PCPDU in our sample indicate the need of larger-scale studies of attitudes toward PCPDU in Swedish PHC.</p>","PeriodicalId":21521,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care","volume":" ","pages":"525-531"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11552277/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140899481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}