BACKGROUND Long term adherence to primary care physical activity intervention is poor. This study explored attitudes and subjective experiences of those who received such an intervention. METHODS Nested qualitative study within mixed methods approach, involving 15 sedentary adults from urban and rural general practices in New Zealand. Semistructured telephone interviews were conducted, transc...

OBJECTIVES To document general practitioners' (GPs) attitudes and practices regarding the prevention and management of overweight and obesity. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES A cross-sectional survey of a randomly selected sample of 1500 Australian GPs was conducted, of which 752 questionnaires were returned. The measures included views on weight management, definitions of success, views rega...

As demonstrated at the recent Consensus Conference on the "suicidal crisis" held by the French Psychiatry Union and the National Agency for the Accreditation and the Evaluation of Care, suicide is recognised as a current public health problem. The general practitioner's role is situated on two levels: in a preliminary stage, the early identification of risk, and in a secondary stage, the provis...

This article describes the prevalence of suicidal behaviour, both nationally and in relation to one inner city district general hospital. The authors discuss what is currently known about risk assessment for identifying those patients likely to repeat the act in the near future. They also examine the findings of a recent survey about nurses' perceptions and attitudes to patients who take delibe...

How can the propositional attitudes of several individuals be aggregated into overall collective propositional attitudes? Although there are large bodies of work on the aggregation of various special kinds of propositional attitudes, such as preferences, judgments, probabilities and utilities, the aggregation of propositional attitudes is seldom studied in full generality. In this paper, we see...