abstract：:Primary care consultations about the menopause and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) involve decision making in the face of clinical uncertainty. This qualitative study used focus groups and semi-structured interviews with primary care patients to explore patients' perspectives of optimal risk communication and decisi...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Walter FM,Emery JD,Rogers M,Britten N

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physician counseling on physical activities for sedentary people is usually based on anamneses. The aim of the present study was to investigate the accuracy of self-perception of participation in physical activities, and the correlation of physical activity with background factors. A random sample of 276 individuals a...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Fogelman Y,Bloch B,Kahan E

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adverse consequences of passive smoking have spurred efforts to reduce environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure among children, particularly in the home. For children with asthma, teaching them to avoid tobacco smoke at home is an important element of patient self-management. This strategy assumes that children ...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Wong GC,Bernaards CA,Berman BA,Jones C,Bernert JT

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined interactions between doctors and their chronic pain patients in the context of investigations for medically unexplained pain. Doctor-patient interactions were explored through the analysis of the accounts of the communication process in the chronic pain consultation of 20 chronic pain patients with...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Kenny DT

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a systemic disease with major impact worldwide. In the treatment of COPD a holistic approach should be taken. In order to reach this, an individual treatment plan should be made which includes at least elements of smoking cessation, optimisation of pulmonary status by ph...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： van der Valk P,Monninkhof E,van der Palen J,Zielhuis G,van Herwaarden C

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:General practitioners' (GPs') anti-smoking advice promotes patients' smoking cessation but little is known about how GPs use their short consultations to give advice. We used semi-structured interviews with 27 UK GPs to investigate how GPs believe they should advise smokers to stop and the reasons underpinning these b...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Coleman T,Cheater F,Murphy E

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to examine risk perceptions among patients at moderate to high cardiovascular risk. A questionnaire about perceived absolute risk of myocardial infarction and stroke was sent to 2424 patients with hypertension or diabetes. Response rate was 86.3% and 1557 patients without atherosclerotic disease were included...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Frijling BD,Lobo CM,Keus IM,Jenks KM,Akkermans RP,Hulscher ME,Prins A,van der Wouden JC,Grol RP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to find out how hospital patients in Finland perceive and evaluate the education they receive. It represents the first part of a patient education project at one university hospital in which the ultimate goal is to support patients' decision-making and self-care and in this way to facilitate the indepe...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Johansson K,Leino-Kilpi H,Salanterä S,Lehtikunnas T,Ahonen P,Elomaa L,Salmela M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveys estimate that 3-6% of the patients seen by physicians are gay or lesbian. There are unique health risks of gays and lesbians that are important to the clinician in determining an accurate diagnosis, providing patient education, and arriving at an appropriate treatment plan. One of the most significant medical ...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Bonvicini KA,Perlin MJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of health care professionals' different understandings of diabetes care is important when preparing such professionals in patient education. For patients to manage illness effectively, the actions of health care professionals are crucial. Patients' understanding of their condition should be taken as the poin...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Holmström I,Halford C,Rosenqvist U

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study objective was to investigate physicians' perceptions of three patient decision aids (DA). Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with 20 family physicians and 12 gynecologists about a DA for women considering long-term hormone replacement therapy; with 16 respirologists about a DA for the use of...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Graham ID,Logan J,O'Connor A,Weeks KE,Aaron S,Cranney A,Dales R,Elmslie T,Hebert P,Jolly E,Laupacis A,Mitchell S,Tugwell P

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quality of Internet information needs to be evaluated and several tools exist for this purpose. However, none have demonstrated reliability and validity. This study tested the internal consistency and validity of the information quality tool (IQT), quality scale (QS) and DISCERN using 89 web sites discussing smoki...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Ademiluyi G,Rees CE,Sheard CE

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention to providers' communication skills is likely to increase, given the confluence of forces that have highlighted the importance of communication in healthcare. In the United States, interpersonal and communication skills have been explicitly identified as a priority throughout the continuum of medical educatio...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Makoul G

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this paper is to examine emerging issues in consumer-provider communication and patient adherence to cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and coping with survivorship. Many factors that have been shown to affect adherence can be supported or hindered by provider-patient communication, includ...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： DiMatteo MR

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A video was produced to inform men diagnosed with localised prostate cancer of the different management options for their disease. It was tested for increased knowledge and understanding on a healthy population of similar age (n=10), who were assessed before and after watching the video (20 interviews). The video was ...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： McGregor S

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on an evaluation of the reactions of participants in a computer-controlled telephone conversation system (telephone-linked care, TLC) designed to offer nutrition and exercise counseling. After 6 months in the study, subjects were asked a series of questions about their opinions of the TLC system, in...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Glanz K,Shigaki D,Farzanfar R,Pinto B,Kaplan B,Friedman RH

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of an intervention programme to improve health education leaflet uptake in community pharmacies was conducted with a small convenience sample of 12 community pharmacies in North Staffordshire, UK. The intervention consisted of four different modes of leaflet provision. Modes 1 and 2 (without and with overt ...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Lloyd-Williams F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the viewpoint of quality of care, doctor-patient communication has become more and more important. Gender is an important factor in communication. Besides, cultural norms and values are likely to influence doctor-patient communication as well. This study examined (1). whether or not communication patterns of gend...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Brink-Muinen Av,van Dulmen S,Messerli-Rohrbach V,Bensing J

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although 'patient-centred' consulting skills are increasingly seen as crucial for the delivery of effective primary care, there is significant lack of clarity over the precise definition of the term, optimal methods of measurement, and the relationship between patient-centred care and patient outcomes. The present stu...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Mead N,Bower P

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we report the long-term outcomes of an intervention for informal caregivers who are the main provider of stroke survivors' emotional and physical support. Based on the stress-coping theory of Lazarus and Folkman two intervention designs were developed: a group support program and individual home visit...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： van den Heuvel ET,Witte LP,Stewart RE,Schure LM,Sanderman R,Meyboom-de Jong B

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much research has explored the interaction between doctor and patient in the consultation and patient centredness has generally emerged as the preferred mode of consultation style. The present study aimed to examine and compare general practitioners' (GPs) and patients' beliefs about the importance of the different as...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Ogden J,Ambrose L,Khadra A,Manthri S,Symons L,Vass A,Williams M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An explanatory framework, referred to as the attitude/social influence/self-efficacy-model (ASE-model), was utilised to explain future self-reported adherence of adolescents to daily inhaled prophylactic asthma medication. The objective was to investigate the long-term influence of these earlier reported cognitive var...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： van Es SM,Kaptein AA,Bezemer PD,Nagelkerke AF,Colland VT,Bouter LM

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health professionals play an important role in meeting the information and support needs of individuals following a diagnosis of cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the acceptability and impact of a hospital-based cancer support nurse (CSN) service. A total of 98 patients completed a structured telephone int...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Roberts S,Schofield P,Freeman J,Hill D,Akkerman D,Rodger A

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seeking to end violence and distress in their relationship is the goal of women abused by intimate partners. The theoretical framework guiding development of the domestic violence survivor assessment (DVSA) was Landenburger's theory of entrapment and recovery. Social context and need to balance care for others and her...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Dienemann J,Campbell J,Landenburger K,Curry MA

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widespread access to the Internet has the potential to improve the health care and quality of life of people with chronic illnesses, including people living with HIV-AIDS. However, the Internet is not equally accessible to all persons. We surveyed 96 men and 51 women living with HIV-AIDS regarding their experiences us...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Kalichman SC,Weinhardt L,Benotsch E,DiFonzo K,Luke W,Austin J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate a computer based interactive diabetes education program designed to train patients with diabetes to correctly estimate the energy or carbohydrate contents of foods. The acceptance and the operator convenience of the program were evaluated with an integrated program and writt...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Nebel IT,Blüher M,Starcke U,Müller UA,Haak T,Paschke R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although recent work has encouraged doctors to express their uncertainty to patients as a means to improve communication the potential impact of this on patients remains unclear. The present study first explored the impact of the way in which uncertainty was expressed (behaviourally versus verbally) on doctor's and pa...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Ogden J,Fuks K,Gardner M,Johnson S,McLean M,Martin P,Shah R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One way to reduce the need and demand for hospital services is via health promotion initiatives. A prenatal instructors' education module preventing the learning of violence as acceptable behaviour by children in their first year of life was developed by a health promoting hospital in partnership with its community. C...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Mavor T

更新日期：2001-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The main goals of this study were to examine aspects of the delivery and reception of advice and questions in interaction between nurses and patients and to describe linguistic features that constructed nurse-centered and empowermental health counseling. The research data, 38 health counseling sessions, were videotape...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Poskiparta M,Liimatainen L,Kettunen T,Karhila P

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomised controlled trial, involving 112 adolescents with asthma, and a 2-year follow-up was conducted to assess the impact of an intervention programme aimed at enhancing adherence to asthma medication. This programme had a duration of 1 year and consisted of an experimental group which received usual care from a...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： van Es SM,Nagelkerke AF,Colland VT,Scholten RJ,Bouter LM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing body of literature considering genetic counselling services in a variety of clinical settings. This literature encompasses both predictive and diagnostic testing, from the viewpoints of service providers and recipients. It also embraces a wide range of conceptions of the nature and goals of genetic ...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Pilnick A,Dingwall R

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Division of Therapeutic Education for Chronic Diseases at the University Hospital of Geneva has been playing an important role in the field of therapeutic patient education for more than 25 years. More than 16,000 patients have been hospitalised and an excess of 75,000 h have been spent with a rather novel interdi...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Assal JP,Golay A

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This issue of Patient Education and Counseling presents the state of the art of patient education in several European countries. It is based on papers presented at a meeting in Paris on the evolution and development of patient education in western, central and eastern Europe (May 1999). Also patient education in the U...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Visser A,Deccache A,Bensing J

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This prospective study evaluated the effect of an individualized, comprehensive, home-based cardiac rehabilitation program combining exercise training with risk factor modification and psychosocial counseling on risk factors, psychological well-being, functional capacity, and work resumption in 99 post-percutaneous co...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Higgins HC,Hayes RL,McKenna KT

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a pharmacy-based intervention on the knowledge and attitudes of asthma patients was studied with a small convenience sample in four Finnish community pharmacies. The intervention consisted of patient education, counselling and outcomes monitoring according to Therapeutic Outcomes Monitoring (TOM) concep...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Närhi U,Airaksinen M,Tanskanen P,Enlund H

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition that communication plays a central role in the provision of quality patient care has led to learning more about interactions between patients and their health care providers. The present study examined interactions between women with breast cancer and their cancer care specialists from the patients' perspe...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Bakker DA,Fitch MI,Gray R,Reed E,Bennett J

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the likelihood, correlates, and psychological impact of parental communication to children of parents' BRCA1/2 genetic test results for breast cancer risk. Subjects were 133 adult members of high risk families. Sociodemographic, clinical, and psychological distress variables were ...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Tercyak KP,Hughes C,Main D,Snyder C,Lynch JF,Lynch HT,Lerman C

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient delay is the interval between the day someone first becomes aware of an unexplained symptom and the day they seek medical consultation. This pre-diagnostic period is comprised of several stages which may involve delay on the part of the individual. This study investigated factors influencing the process of det...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： de Nooijer J,Lechner L,de Vries H

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information needs, satisfaction with information and information sources of women referred for surgical biopsy in mammography screening were explored. Forty-five Finnish women (23 benign and 22 malignant finding) replied to a mailed questionnaire containing fixed-choice and open-ended questions 10 weeks after biopsy. ...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Rehnberg G,Absetz P,Aro AR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this qualitative study stroke patients rehabilitating in nursing homes experienced an increase in their autonomy (particularly in self-determination, independence and self-care) in the last weeks before discharge. The change in autonomy was found to be related to regained abilities and self-confidence, and to patie...

journal_title：Patient education and counseling

authors： Proot IM,Crebolder HF,Abu-Saad HH,Macor TH,Ter Meulen RH

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00