Less Help-Seeking Behaviour in Female Patients Exhibiting Stroke or TIA - Related Symptoms

Delay in Seeking Medical Help following Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) or “Mini-Stroke”: A Qualitative Study

BACKGROUND Prompt treatment following Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) can reduce the risk of subsequent stroke and disability. However, many patients delay in making contact with medical services. This study aimed to explore TIA patients' accounts of delay between symptom onset and contacting medical services including how decisions to contact services were made and the factors discussed in rel...

Help-seeking behaviour for internalizing problems:

Symptoms, Illness Behavior, and Help-Seeking

events and negative health outcomes) which may be brought about by the presence, absence, or intensity of such intervening variables as social networks, expectancy related to aging, availability of material resources, coping abilities, and many other intervening variables. Moreover, statistical confounding is often a problem. Because of the plethora of models and of the ways of operationalizing...

Help Seeking and Vaginismus Help-seeking Behaviour in Sufferers of Vaginismus

Help seeking and vaginismus 2 Summary The aim of the study was to examine the help-seeking behaviour of sufferers of vaginismus and to explore their experiences of professional intervention. A postal questionnaire was completed by sufferers (n=67) and ex-sufferers (n=22) of vaginismus through a newspaper advert, self help groups, psychotherapists and professional organisations asking them about...

AHA and ASA Release Guideline for Prevention of Future Stroke in Patients with Stroke or TIA.

www.aafp.org/afp Volume 91, Number 2 ◆ January 15, 2015 The American Heart Association (AHA) and American Stroke Association (ASA) have updated their guideline on prevention of future stroke in patients with a history of stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA). Currently, the average annual rate of future stroke in these patients is at a historic low. This is a result of new approaches and im...