present study is aimed at evaluating the effect of rational emotive behavior therapy (rebt) on anxiety and irrational beliefs among infertile women. to assess the level of anxiety and irrational beliefs, 50 infertile women were selected randomly from mediwave ivf and fertility research hospital in mysore city and were administered cattle questionnaires for surveying anxiety and the shortened ge...

BACKGROUND General practices vary in the provision of training and education. Some practices have training as a major focus with the presence of multi-level learners and others host single learner groups or none at all. This study investigates the educational benefits and challenges associated with 'multi-level learner' practices. METHODS This paper comprised three case studies of rural gener...

BACKGROUND Although a 'patient-centred' approach to general practice consultation is widely advocated, there is mixed evidence of its benefits. AIM To measure the costs and benefits of using a prompt to elicit patients' concerns when they consult for minor illness. DESIGN OF STUDY An open randomised controlled trial. SETTING Four training semi-rural general practices in the south- east of...

Two hundred and fifty-nine men and women aged 20-45 years who did not respond to an offer from their general practitioner for a health check were interviewed at home to explore the reasons for non-response. There was no support for the view that the invitation aroused anxiety or that the administrative arrangements had been a barrier to acceptance. Many subjects were not really interested (44%)...

BACKGROUND What decisions do patients expect the general practitioner to take within the consultation and to what extent are these expectations fulfilled? What factors influence patients' expectations and general practitioners' actions? AIM This study aimed to examine these questions with reference to prescribing and hospital referral. METHOD The study covered 1080 consultations with 12 gen...

Whilst there has been considerable debate about the fit between moral theory and moral reasoning in everyday life, the way in which moral problems are defined has rarely been questioned. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of interviews conducted with 15 general practitioners (GPs) in South Australia to argue that the way in which the bioethics literature defines an ethical dilemma captu...

This study integrates the literature on computer anxiety and communication apprehension to determine their joint impact upon individual attitudes toward using and use of computer mediated communication (CMC). We introduce the application-specific CMC anxiety, defined as an individual’s level of fear or apprehension associated with actual or anticipated use of information technology to communica...

OBJECTIVE The tripartite model categorizes symptoms of depression and anxiety into three groups: 1) non-specific general distress that is shared between depression and anxiety, 2) depression-specific symptoms that include low positive affect and loss of interest, and 3) anxiety-specific symptoms that include somatic arousal. The Mood and Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire (MASQ) was developed to me...

BACKGROUND Emerging work suggests that academic achievement may be influenced by the management of affect as well as through efficient information processing of task demands. In particular, mathematical anxiety has attracted recent attention because of its damaging psychological effects and potential associations with mathematical problem solving and achievement. This study investigated the gen...

This article discusses generalized anxiety disorder in terms of its defining characteristics, its relationship to other psychiatric disorders, its psychobiology, and its treatment. Although generalized anxiety disorder is frequently encountered in general practice, it has been less systematically investigated than the more dramatic forms of anxiety disorders such as panic disorder and phobias. ...