Management of minor illness.

Management of minor illness.

Self-care for minor illness.

AIM To describe experiences with and knowledge of minor illness, self-care interventions used in minor illness and channels of information used when providing self-care for minor illness. BACKGROUND Although minor illness is self-limiting, symptoms can be substantial and have a great impact on the affected person's wellbeing. Possibilities to seek and find information about health and self-ca...

Randomised controlled trial of self management leaflets and booklets for minor illness provided by post.

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of providing information by post about managing minor illnesses. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Six general practices. PARTICIPANTS Random sample of 4002 patients from the practice registers. INTERVENTION Patients were randomised to receive one of three kinds of leaflet or booklet endorsed by their general practitioner: control (surgery...

Office management of minor wounds.

OBJECTIVE To review office interventions for minor wounds not requiring sutures, such as abrasions, bites, and lacerations. QUALITY OF EVIDENCE Most information on minor wound management comes from descriptive studies. Few comparative studies examine the effectiveness of topical antisepsis for minor wounds. Several clinical trials have demonstrated that tissue adhesives produce short- and lon...

Impact of Birth-weight on Adult Minor Illness

There is now well-established evidence that low birthweight has important health implications beyond infancy and childhood as suggested by the fetal origins of disease theory1. It postulates that in utero under-nutrition leads to permanent changes to the physiology and metabolism of the body, in part explaining the higher incidence of cardiovascular illnesses,2,3 stroke,4 and type 2 diabetes5 i...