BACKGROUND In the UK, chronic disease, including chronic kidney disease (CKD) is largely managed in primary care. We developed a tool to assess practitioner confidence and knowledge in managing CKD compared to other chronic diseases. This questionnaire was part of a cluster randomised quality improvement interventions in chronic kidney disease (QICKD; ISRCTN56023731). METHODS The questionnair...

BACKGROUND Sense of coherence is related to well-being, stress and life satisfaction among medical students and physicians. The purpose of the study was to investigate relation between sense of coherence during medical education and styles of success in the medical career. METHODS The participants were first examined when they applied to medical school in 1999. Questionnaires were given to th...

OBJECTIVE To explore (a). if analgesia taken before an intrauterine device (IUD) fitting actually lessens the discomfort of the fitting and (b). whether there is a relationship between anxiety and choosing to take pain relief before an IUD fitting. POPULATION Women having an IUD fitted in participating clinics in Leeds between 1 April and 31 July 2001. METHOD Advice was given to women who w...

Objectives To examine the effect of patients’ causal attributions of common somatic symptoms on recognition by general practitioners of cases of depression and anxiety and to test the hypothesis that normalising attributions make recognition less likely. Design Cross sectional survey. Setting One general practice of eight doctors in Bristol. Subjects 305 general practice attenders. Main outcome...

PURPOSE The validity and reliability of various items on the GP Patient Survey (GPPS) survey have been reported, however stability of patient responses over time has not been tested. The purpose of this study was to determine the test-retest reliability of the core items from the GPPS. METHODS Patients who had recently consulted participating GPs in five general practices across the South Wes...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which the illness perceptions of Oesophageal cancer survivors and the illness perceptions of their carers explain the survivors' levels of psychological distress (in terms of anxiety and depression symptoms) relative to demographic and biomedical variables and patients' coping strategies. METHOD Everyone registered with the Oesophageal Patients' Association ...

BACKGROUND Sexual and reproductive health (SRH), a basic right for women worldwide, is infrequently researched in countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). No empirical studies of SRH among Saudi women exist. This protocol describes a study to explore the SRH knowledge, information-seeking behaviour and attitudes of Saudi female university students. METHODS/DESIGN This study will ...

BACKGROUND High-quality fertility care should be effective and safe, but also patient-centred. However, a suitable instrument for measuring patient-centredness is lacking. This study aims to develop and validate an instrument that can reliably measure patient-centredness in fertility care: patient-centredness questionnaire-infertility (PCQ-infertility). METHODS The PCQ's content, addressing 5...

Flaming is defined as " displaying hostility by insulting, swearing or using otherwise offensive language. " It seems to be common in comments on the video sharing website YouTube. In this explorative study, flaming on YouTube was studied using surveys among YouTube users. Three general conclusions were drawn. First, flaming is indeed very common on YouTube, although many users say not to flame...