BACKGROUND Motivational interviewing is a technique used to promote change in addictive behaviour, initially used to treat alcoholism. Despite this, its effectiveness has not been sufficiently demonstrated for giving up smoking. AIM The aim of the study was to establish whether motivational interviewing, compared with anti-smoking advice, is more effective for giving up the habit. DESIGN OF...

i Acknowledgements I want to thank my supervisor Dr.-Ing. Eike Schallehn for all efforts and time that he spent on this thesis. He gives me many useful advices of how to write and organize my content. I also want to thank M.Sc. Stefan Barthel for giving me the original direction of this thesis. Last but not least, many thanks to my family and friends for their support and encouragement during t...

At present, in the fashion domain, the uniform advantage of tatting products have been broken by knitting products which suddenly rise and partly occupy the market, so the situation that knitting products and tatting products occupy the market together begins to form. Because of their own characters of knitting dress or tatting dress, they can not be replaced. But in future, the knitting dress ...

We investigated how people would change and vary in accepting advice when the effectiveness of advice was unclear. In each trial, participants estimated a monthly rent of an apartment room based on the attribute list. Then, another estimate by a real-estate agent was given as advice. Participants made a final estimation, either by taking the advice fully, partially, or rejecting it totally. The...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the attitudes and behavior of surgeons regarding preoperative smoking cessation. METHODS A total of 109 anonymous questionnaires were distributed to non-vascular surgeons in our hospital, inquiring about their smoking attitudes, their smoking cessation advice practices, whether they appreciated the benefits of preoperative smoking cessation...

a:4:{s:10:"Background";s:670:"Infertility and decisions about the use of assisted reproductive technologies such as embryo donation have legal, psychological and social issues in addition to medical aspect. So, expert advice should be considered as an integral element in providing the services. Accordingly, this study designed and implemented to investigate the consulting needs of embryo donati...

The Health of the Nation report (Department of Health, 1992) set targets for population dietary intake which will necessitate widespread changes in eating behaviour. The recent Committee on Medical Aspects of Health Policy report (Department of Health, 1994) indicates how these targets might be achieved by providing examples of practical strategies that people could adopt. However, despite the ...