The following is a study of the general diabetes-related attitudes of 1202 patients with diabetes in Michigan. The instrument used to measure attitudes was a revised version of the Diabetes Attitude Scale (DAS) designed to measure the attitudes of health care professionals. A factor analysis of the revised DAS yielded seven diabetes attitude factors. These factors represented patients' attitude...

A skin biopsy is one of the most frequently performed procedures in the dermatology outpatient clinic, but doctors often do not consider the cognitive impact of the biopsy procedure. Based on "terror management theory," we reasoned that a skin biopsy increases patient compliance by unconsciously stimulating mortality salience. To study this hypothesis, trust toward doctors, authoritarian person...

objective: the present study aimed to investigate the differences regarding spiritual development dimensions and death attitude profiles, and also to determinate association between them, in patients suffering from type ii diabetes. methods: in a cross-sectional design study, 100 female outpatients who were suffering from type ii diabetes were recruited in imam khomeini hospital, sari, iran. da...

background:  multiple  sclerosis  (ms) patients permanently confronted  with serious challenges from treatment regimen. developing  a new  questionnaire in ms management, through  evaluation  of patients’ perspectives   and  knowledge   regarding   treatment  will help  to  identify the  sources  of tension, and  to  build  a therapeutic   alliance.   we   purposed   to   describe    ms patient...

Some narcissistically impaired patients present a particularly difficult therapeutic challenge. They often cannot tolerate interpretations because they view interpretations as humiliating evidence that they are shamefully defective. For these patients, “treatment by attitude” and without significant interpretation may be the only way they can feel safe enough to allow the therapeutic process to...

This study was conceived against the hunches of seemingly inadequate knowledge and blatant stigmatization of leprosy sufferers amongst health practitioners in Nigeria. It aimed at relating health workers knowledge and consequent attitude towards leprosy patients. Five hundred and eighty seven health workers comprising males and females drawn from government and private owned health care infrast...

Knowledge, attitude, and practice in relation to epilepsy in developing countries appears to be different from that in developed countries. This study was conducted to evaluate knowledge, attitudes, expectations, sociocultural aspects, patient characteristics, disease characteristics, pattern of drug therapy, and outcome of patients with epilepsy in rural Sri Lanka. Data were collected from 207...