OBJECTIVE Assess effects of pharmacists' counseling by telephone on patients' satisfaction with counseling, satisfaction with information and beliefs about medicines for newly prescribed medicines. METHODS A cluster randomized trial in Dutch community pharmacies. Patients ≥18 years were included when starting with antidepressants, bisphosphonates, RAS-inhibitors or statins. The intervention c...

Most textbooks in counseling and psychotherapy contain no discussion of the problem of values. The neglect of this area in earlier courses thus means that when the student comes to the practicum, problems arise in his counseling. If he has been exposed to the client-centered philosophy, he is of course usually convinced that he should be nonjudgmental regarding the client’s attitudes, beliefs, ...

Introduction Post-rehabilitative formal control mechanisms and conventional treatments within the justice system have been shown to be clearly ineffectual in developing pro-social behaviour of adolescents (Coates, 1981; O'Connor & Sweetapple, 1988). It has been well established that formal control mechanisms with by-products of labelling (McCord, 1978) and netwidening (Kleln, 1979; Pink & White...

OBJECTIVE The present study assessed the effectiveness of smoking cessation programs combining individual and telephone counselling, compared to individual or telephone counselling alone. METHOD A randomized, multicentre, open-label trial was performed between January 2009 and July 2011 at six smoking cessation clinics in Spain. Of 772 smokers assessed for eligibility, 600 (77%) met inclusion...

Very little information is available on the extent to which the private health sector is involved in clinical management of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. This study assessed the potentials and existing capacity of 15 private health facilities in Nassarawa state for clinical management of HIV/AIDS. Information was obtained from 25 staff (15 proprietors and 10 professionals) of the randomly selected healt...

BACKGROUND Health, fair financing and responsiveness to the user's needs and expectations are seen as the essential objectives of health systems. Efforts have been made to conceptualise and measure responsiveness as a basis for evaluating the non-health aspects of health systems performance. This study assesses the applicability of the responsiveness tool developed by WHO when applied in the co...

Psychology, as the science of behavior, is concerned with the understanding, prediction, and control of such behavior. Counseling and psychotherapy, it is asserted, have as goals the changing of behavior. An individual who is unproductive, unhappy, frustrated, dependent, irresponsible, overly submissive or overly aggressive, et cetera, is expected to become productive, happy, independent, respo...

BACKGROUND High-quality preventive services for youth aged 11 to 18 include assessment and counseling regarding health behavior risks and developmental tasks/strengths of adolescence. Nationally, primary care health behavior risk screening and counseling rates lag considerably behind other preventive health services. The purpose of this project was to assist pediatric and family medicine practi...

Dietary intake data which were collected in the course of a trial on 16 children, who were diagnosed as being hyperactive, are examined. The nutritional adequacy of the children's diets before and during treatment with the Australian version of the Feingold elimination diet is calculated. The mean intakes of all computed nutrients were above the recommended level in the Australian Dietary Allow...

This study examines whether caregivers' differential utilization of respite and counseling support services is associated with different situational stress processes. A multinomial regression analysis was conducted to compare respite users, counseling users, and those who used neither service, using data collected on a statewide random sample of 1,643 California caregivers providing assistance ...