OBJECTIVE To provide a review of population-based attitude research in psychiatry during the past 15 years. METHOD An electronic search using PubMed, Medline, and Academic Search Premier plus a hand search of the literature was carried out for studies on public beliefs about mental illness and attitudes towards the mentally ill published between 1990 and 2004. RESULTS Thirty-three national ...

This research investigated the influence of smoking attitudes and norms on quitting intentions in two predominantly collectivistic countries (Malaysia and Thailand) and four predominantly individualistic Western countries (Canada, USA, UK and Australia). Data from the International Tobacco Control Project (N = 13,062) revealed that higher odds of intending to quit were associated with negative ...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the General Medical Council (GMC) identify teaching as a key competency and attribute of professional medical training and practice. Teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduates, however, poses certain challenges. The specialty calls for clinicians to consider complex biological, psychological and social processes, all in the context of child...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the General Medical Council (GMC) identify teaching as a key competency and attribute of professional medical training and practice. Teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduates, however, poses certain challenges. The specialty calls for clinicians to consider complex biological, psychological and social processes, all in the context of child...

The importance of the problem under investigation is due to the need of thorough research of the complicated issues associated with the adaptation of migrant workers in the host society. All these issues are of great social, economic, political and cultural significance for the modern Russian society in general, and the Republic of Tatarstan in particular. The strategies of migrant integration ...

BACKGROUND Primary care studies often encounter recruitment difficulties, but there is little evidence to inform solutions. As part of a National Institute for Health Research School for Primary Care Research and UK Clinical Research Network programme, we elicited research staff perspectives on factors facilitating or obstructing recruitment. OBJECTIVE To identify factors that experienced res...

Relationships between Middle Eastern patients and Western health care professionals are often troubled by mutual misunderstanding of culturally influenced values and communication styles. Although Middle Easterners vary ethnically, they do share a core of common values and behavior that include the importance of affiliation and family, time and space orientations, interactional style and attitu...

In this work, we are exploring mechanisms that may contribute to cultural diversity and that rely on our everyday understanding of culture as a set of attitudes, behaviors, tools, ways of thinking etc., some of which are not directly exposed to the outside. We are using as a starting point an extended Axelrod model that defines a Moore neighborhood and generally heterogeneous sets of cultural f...