OBJECTIVES To determine general practitioners' (GPs') attitudes towards and involvement in general practice research. DESIGN Postal survey and semi-structured interviews conducted from May to September 2001. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING 467 of 631 GPs in four Queensland Divisions of General Practice responded to the survey (74% response rate); 18 selected GPs were interviewed. MAIN OUTCOME ME...

Culture is learned behavior shared among members of a group and from generation to generation within that group. In health care work, references to "culture" may also function as code for ethical uncertainty or moral distress concerning patients, families, or populations. This paper analyzes how culture can be a factor in patient-care situations that produce moral distress. It discusses three c...

This paper is concerned with problems related with culture and social changes in Brazil and how they have been affected by deeply held beliefs which have acted as barriers against social and economic development.

patient-centered communication barriers: experiences of patients with cancer, their family members and nurses rassouli m ,zamanzadeh v ,abbaszadeh a ,nikanafar ar ,alavi-majd h , mirza ahmadi f ,ghahramanian a * received: 28 aug, 2013 accepted: 2 nov, 2013 abstract background & aims: it is suggested that nurses unable to communicate with patients based on the needs and preferences and to indivi...

Background: To improve dairy consumption among children, it is crucial to explore probable barriers and facilitators toward it. The current qualitative study aims to discover barriers and facilitators of dairy intake among school-age children in Tehran to suggest strategies to improve it based on the optimal components of social marketing. Methods: In a qualitative study, 111 school-age childre...

Background: People with disability experience various problems to access to healthcare services. This study aimed to identify cultural barriers in access to healthcare services for people with disability in Iran. Methods: We conducted a qualitative study using content analysis to identify the cultural barriers. We used semi-structured interviews to collect data. Participants were selected throu...

BACKGROUND Health care systems should assign quality improvement as their main mission. Clinical governance (CG) is a key strategy to improve quality of health care services. The Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) has promoted CG as a framework for safeguarding quality and safety in all hospitals since 2009. The purpose of this study was to explore perceived facilitators a...