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Reasons why people do not attend NHS Health Checks: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of General Practice, December 2017
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Title
Reasons why people do not attend NHS Health Checks: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis
Published in
British Journal of General Practice, December 2017
DOI 10.3399/bjgp17x693929
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Authors

Emma Harte, Calum MacLure, Adam Martin, Catherine L Saunders, Catherine Meads, Fiona M Walter, Simon J Griffin, Jonathan Mant, Juliet A Usher-Smith

Abstract

The NHS Health Check programme is a prevention initiative offering cardiovascular risk assessment and management advice to adults aged 40-74 years across England. Its effectiveness depends on uptake. When it was introduced in 2009, it was anticipated that all those eligible would be invited over a 5-year cycle and 75% of those invited would attend. So far in the current cycle from 2013 to 2018, 33.8% of those eligible have attended, which is equal to 48.5% of those invited to attend. Understanding the reasons why some people do not attend is important to maximise the impact of the programmes. To review why people do not attend NHS Health Checks. A systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies. An electronic literature search was carried out of MEDLINE, Embase, Health Management Information Consortium, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Global Health, PsycINFO, Web of Science, OpenGrey, the Cochrane Library, NHS Evidence, Google Scholar, Google, ClinicalTrials.gov, and the ISRCTN registry from 1 January 1996 to 9 November 2016, and the reference lists of all included papers were also screened manually. Inclusion criteria were primary research studies that reported the views of people who were eligible for but had not attended an NHS Health Check. Nine studies met the inclusion criteria. Reasons for not attending included lack of awareness or knowledge, misunderstanding the purpose of the NHS Health Check, aversion to preventive medicine, time constraints, difficulties with access to general practices, and doubts regarding pharmacies as appropriate settings. The findings particularly highlight the need for improved communication and publicity around the purpose of the NHS Health Check programme and the personal health benefits of risk factor detection.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 159 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 25 16%
Student > Bachelor 18 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 11%
Researcher 15 9%
Other 7 4%
Other 20 13%
Unknown 57 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 32 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 21 13%
Social Sciences 7 4%
Psychology 7 4%
Computer Science 5 3%
Other 22 14%
Unknown 65 41%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 67. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 January 2024.
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