This paper reportes a study that investigated the effects of conceptual description and search practice on users’ mental models and information seeking in a case-based reasoning retrieval (CBR) system with a best match search mechanism. This study also examined how the presence of a mental model affects the users’ search performance and satisfaction in this system. The results of this study rev...

Background: The 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) is used routinely as a unidimensional measure of psychological morbidity. Many factor-analytic studies have reported that the GHQ-12 has two or three dimensions, threatening its validity. It is possible that these 'dimensions' are the result of the wording of the GHQ-12, namely its division into positively phrased (PP) and negatively...

Over the past 2 decades, much work has been carried out on the use of mental practice through motor imagery for optimizing the retraining of motor function in people with physical disabilities. Although much of the clinical work with mental practice has focused on the retraining of upper-extremity tasks, this article reviews the evidence supporting the potential of motor imagery for retraining ...

Background: Most modern medical disciplines adopt biomedical and positivistic corners while viewing and interpreting various events and phenomena related to living and physical worlds. But in case of mental health the dimension is much complicated and full of abstract elements and relativism; all these areas can be expressed or enumerated what can be possible in other steams of physical and bio...

in the community, third-sector and statutory organisations, can all contribute. For general practice and primary care this will certainly require different training and more resources. The experience for all could be quite different: an individual with ‘stress’ booking straight into their choice of groups run by Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services; a patient with psychos...

I heartily agree with Caryl E. Peterson, author of "The Issue Is Austemy and the Cadaver" (January 1994, pp. 87-88), that occupational therapy students need to know their anatomy and learn it properly in labs with human cadavers. A~ she stated, "charts and models can never take the place of the cadaver in developing a true understanding of the intricacies of human systems and a deep respect for...

Epidemilogical and clincial use of GMHAT-PC ( Global Mental Health assessment toolprimary care )in cardiac patients Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2009, 5:7 doi:10.1186/1745-0179-5-7 Murali Krishna ([email protected]) Peter Lepping ([email protected]) Vimal K Sharma ([email protected]) John R M Copeland ([email protected]) Lorraine Lockwood (lorraine.locwo...

These two volumes form part of the excellent In Practice series, published by the Royal Society of Medicine. Each examines an aspect of cardiology and presents it in such a way as to be accessible for the expert and the generalist alike. Professor Lip is well known for his work on atrial fibrillation, and the book manages to include a lot of information. Despite this, it is very readable. My on...

psychological distress' suggests that it is in such subgroups of the population that GPs can improve their performance. Work in our own practice also supports the feasibility of the Geriatric Depression Scale for use by practice nurses in screening assessment. However, the use of mental health-screening questionnaires in primary care remains uncommon.2 If there is pressing evidence of underperf...

Background: In independent studies, IBD, IBS and HCV have each been associated with a substantially increased risk of psychological problems such as depression and anxiety and impairment of quality of life compared to the general healthy population. However, the relative psychological burden for each of these diagnoses is unknown as it has never been compared contemporaneously at one institutio...