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Background: Cardiovascular diseases constitute one of the main causes of deaths in Europe. They also rank among the most frequent causes of disability. That leads to high economic burden. The occurrence of those diseases is strongly related with life style and risk factors. Influencing of these factors in ill patients within secondary prevention and in risk factors within primary prevention will significantly reduce morbidity and mortality. Motivation is essential in the process of influencing of risk factors. It ...

The nurse's educational activities in cardiovascular prevention play an important role. Quantitative method of questionnaire technique with the help of standardized structured interview was used for the survey. Data were processed by the descriptive statistic methods. The SASD program and the contingency tables of selected indicators of the 2nd classification degree were subsequently used for processing. The degree of dependence of selected features was determined by the chi2, t-test.

The aim of the survey was to map out selected general practitionersВ’ view on primary prevention. To achieve this objective, qualitative research through semi-structured interview was chosen. This interview was based on the standardized HLS-EU-Q47 questionnaire of the EU HLS Consortium for the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU), which is designed for mapping health literacy. The interview included 26 questions arranged into five categories and has been designed to find out the opinion of general practitioner...