J Ogden

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..Suggestions for the development of more effective interventions to change health behaviours are made...

..The implications for the social context on self-perception are discussed...

..The present study aimed to assess both the modeling and the interactive hypotheses...

..Although consultations have increased in length, patients still express dissatisfaction with how much time they spend with their doctor...

..Finally, they may create and change both cognitions and behavior rather than describe them...

..The aim of the present study was to examine patients' views about the relative impact and function of lay and medical diagnoses for stomach and throat problems...

..In particular, whilst behavioural expressions of uncertainty may have a positive impact upon patient confidence, verbal expressions have a consistently detrimental effect which is underestimated by GPs...

..Although the majority of weight loss attempts are unsuccessful, a small minority succeed in both weight loss and maintenance. The present study aimed to explore the correlates of this success...

..These results suggest that GPs and patients do not have a shared understanding of health, which has implications for the effectiveness of primary care consultations...

..Further, the results suggest that even if an intervention could be negotiated, success rates would be low as either the patient or the GP would be acting in contradiction to their beliefs about the nature of obesity...

..This study suggests that the area of heart failure may be one where GPs may chose to compromise openness for the sake of the patient's experience and that this fear of upsetting the patient is well founded...

..Research has highlighted variations in morbidity, mortality and health needs by ethnic group, and suggests that some ethnic groups may receive a poorer service...

..CONCLUSION: The results indicate that a doctor's choice of vocabulary affects patient satisfaction immediately after a general practice consultation and that using the same vocabulary as the patient can improve patient outcomes...

..Other contemporary examples of these free-floating symptoms reinforce the argument that the nature and meaning of symptoms has been transformed over recent decades...

..The study identified two mechanisms, clinical etiquette and clinical experimentation, however, that enabled change to occur within the constraints imposed by the commitment to clinical autonomy...

..The present study aimed to explore the mechanisms behind the success of surgery and to examine how it might bring about such changes in patients' health status...

..Stigmatised problems and those with clinical guidelines, however, seem to result in a 'do as I say not as I do' approach to health care...

..To explore young women's accounts of their use and non-use of emergency contraception...

..The results are discussed in terms of the process of reinvention and the impact of stigma on an obese person's self-identity...

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..CONCLUSION: A doctor's age and gender have a stronger impact on a patient's judgements than their ethnicity...

..To describe contraceptive risk and compensatory behaviour, using condoms or emergency contraception (EC), in young people in education aged 16-24 years...

..The results are discussed in terms of implications for the role of acupuncture in General Practice and selectively targeting patients who would be responsive to such an approach...

..To conclude, a positive parental role model may be a better method for improving a child's diet than attempts at dietary control...

..It was hypothesized that the two therapies would be clearly distinguishable and that in terms of process variables, the therapeutic alliance would be important in predicting outcome...

..To explore general practitioners (GPs') beliefs about the causes and solutions to obesity, to compare them to those held by a lay sample and to assess the role of beliefs about causes in explaining beliefs about solutions...

..Stress is used by different patients in different ways and offers a variable pathway to the doctor...

..CONCLUSION: Many parents hold mixed beliefs about the MMR vaccination and the doctors who administer it. Uptake relates to past vaccination and more positive beliefs...

..The study has helped to develop and refine the model and has identified some key factors that are specifically relevant to emergency contraception use in a sample of women in education in and around London...

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..CONCLUSION: Doctors have more positive beliefs about patients with a psychological problem and are more likely to offer them a sick note. Issuing sick notes is unrelated to the patient's family circumstances or patient demand...

..The resulting symptoms are therefore both culturally and personally meaningful. This model is derived from an analysis of the literature on diet, but is also offered as a means to understand the onset of other common symptoms...

..Our objective was to examine patients' experiences of taking orlistat as a means to explore adherence and behavior change...

..The children's BMIs were unrelated to any variables measured in the study...

..Home testing may also function as a form of biofeedback to facilitate an improved ability to estimate blood glucose levels...

..Scarred celebrities were judged as particularly unattractive. Women's assumption that they will be judged more harshly following breast cancer surgery maybe reflected in the actual ratings of others...

..Further, these constructs may differentially relate to snacking behaviour which may help to explain some of the confusion in the literature...