BACKGROUND Although the move to smoke-free hospital settings is generally a popular initiative, it may be a more challenging and controversial issue in mental health care. A survey was carried out to investigate differences in attitudes between clinical staff in psychiatric and general medical settings to smoke-free policy and intervention. METHOD The sample comprised 2574 NHS staff working i...

objective: consultation-liaison (cl) psychiatry interfaces between psychiatry and other medical disciplines to promote integrated care of patients. the purpose of this study is evaluation of attitudes and practice of mazandaran university of medical sciences physicians of teaching hospitals regarding cl psychiatry. methods:in this descriptive study, all of the general practitioners, specialist ...

A number of puzzles about propositional attitudes in semantics and philosophy revolve around apparent referential dependencies between different attitudes within a single agent's mental state. In a series of papers, Hans Kamp (2003… 2015) offers a general framework for describing such interconnected attitude complexes, building on DRT and dynamic semantics. I demonstrate that Kamp's proposal ca...

This study examined the effect of anti-fat attitude counter-conditioning using positive images of obese individuals participants completed implicit and explicit measures of attitudes towards fatness on three occasions: no intervention; following exposure to positive images of obese members of the general public; and to images of obese celebrities. Contrary to expectations, positive images of ob...

A survey of the sexual attitudes and knowledge of general practitioners in Wessex found that GP trainees and those in practice for less than 10 years were less conservative and better informed than doctors in practice for 20 years or more, The results suggest that the attitudes of the doctors are determined by their early environmental influences rather than their clinical experience.

The aim of this study was to explore the knowledge, attitudes and practices of established general practitioners (GPs) in relation to breastfeeding. 10 GPs in the Australian Nepean Blue Mountains Health District were interviewed and the interviews transcribed and analyzed thematically. Emergent themes from each interview were identified and then compared between and across the 10 interviews. Fi...

Results Response rate was 22%, similar to previous studies in this field. More than one third of general practitioners reported they don\’t have the skills to treat an eating disorder (ED). More than a quarter reported there were no resources available to them for treating eating disorders and 38% had missed an ED diagnosis with a patient who was subsequently discovered to have an eating disord...