Results Five major themes emerged: (1) symptom appraisal (e.g. determining if/when symptoms become bothersome enough to necessitate intervention), (2) practical barriers (e.g. distance, travel), (3) beliefs about the interventions (e.g. fear of needles, dislike of medications), (4) comfort with clinical trials (e.g. randomization, blinding, placebo), (5) trust and altruism. Breast cancer surviv...

BACKGROUND Students can be classified into three categories depending on their approaches to studying; namely, deep approach (DA), strategic approach (SA) and surface apathetic or superficial approach (SAA). The aim of this study was to identify factors affecting the approaches to studying among Sri Lankan medical undergraduates and post graduate trainees and to analyze the change in the patter...

PURPOSE The aims of the present study were to assess the prevalence of perceived risk for cancer; to explore associations between sociodemographics and family history of cancer and perceived cancer risk; to identify perceived cause of cancer risk; and to examine the associations between sociodemographics and family history of cancer and perceived cause of cancer risk. MATERIALS AND METHODS Th...

The high burden of asthma on healthcare utilisation and costs warrants economic appraisal of management approaches. The authors previously demonstrated that the efficacy of nurse-led outpatient management of childhood asthma was comparable to management by a paediatrician and now report on the healthcare utilisation and costs of both management approaches. A total of 74 newly referred children ...

performance appraisal systems are affected by organizational social context. social context consists of tow factors, distal variables, and, proximal variables. distal factors include but are not limited to organizational culture, organizational structure, and, values. proximal variable categorize as both process factors and structural factors. in this paper the process factors were examined. th...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to estimate health-care costs because of diseases caused by alcohol consumption based on health system's perspective. METHODS Total direct health-care costs of alcohol drinking were the summation of the costs of alcohol drinking in inpatient and outpatient departments due to chronic diseases and acute conditions using prevalence-based approach. The al...

BACKGROUND With population ageing, research is needed into new low-cost, scalable methods of effective promotion of health and wellbeing for older people. We aimed to assess feasibility, reach and costs of implementing a new tailored computer-aided health and social risk appraisal system in primary care. METHODS Design: Feasibility study. SETTING Five General Practices in London (Ealing) an...