Timing: 2013-2016

Partners: Medical University of Warsaw and Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Funded by: Polish-Norwegian Research Program

Funding assigned: 2 974 211 PLN

Participants: general practitioners and their elderly patients

Area: Poland - Mazowia, Wielkopolskie and Łódzkie provinces

Course of research:
❶ baseline assessment among patients and doctors
❷ educational intervention for GPs
❸ second assessment among doctors and patients

Aim of the intervention: enhancement of GPs' competences concerning skills of communication and activation of elderly patients.

Types of educational intervention:

❶ PRACTA e-learning
❷ article

Number of participating doctors: wave I - 503 and wave II - 393

Number of GPs participating in intervention:

❶ e-learning - 60
❷ article - 89
❸ control group - 94

Number of patients: wave I - 5030, wave II - 3930

Places where information about PRACTA was disseminated: Norway x 3 (Trondheim), Greece x 2 (Alexandropoulos, Chalcidice), Sweden (Goteborg), Poland x 6 (Warsaw, Lodz, Wroclaw,)

Number of publications: national – 1

To be up-dated and continued...