J Ogden

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..Overall, restriction resulted in reduced intake but relative increased preoccupation with the food being restricted. Non-restriction resulted in a greater preoccupation with other sweet foods once the target foods had been consumed...

..The new Meaning of Food (MOF) questionnaire could be used in both research and clinical practice to profile patients and explore predictors of eating behaviour...

..The package reflects the rehabilitation services now common place for patients post heart attack and stroke which have been shown to improve patient health outcomes...

..Likert scale data should be understood within the context of how ratings are made...

..The results provide some insights into the factors which influence the direction of the impact of choice. They also indicate the importance of differentiating between 'having choice' and 'making choice'...

..The introduction of patient screens for outpatient procedures is becoming increasingly common. To date, the impact on the patient of viewing the screen remains unknown...

..The results are discussed in terms of self-regulation and the establishment of a new post-crisis healthier equilibrium...

..Current policy advocates individual choice across a number of domains, including healthcare provision...

..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...

..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...

..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...

..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...

..To conclude, life events are related to weight change and the direction of this change can be explained both by the perceived nature of the event and its impact upon choice and function of eating and exercise...

..The results show that physical symptoms can be generated by visual cues indicating that psychological factors are not only involved in symptom perception but also in symptom onset...

..To develop a clinic for patients who believe they have a food intolerance that could be administered by practice nurses with minimal experience of dietary change or food intolerance...

..The model for 'descriptive richness' was not significant. Overall, open questions, located later on and framed in the present or past tense, tended to be most predictive of richness. This could inform improvements in interview technique...

..Whereas failed surgery is characterised by a battle for control, successful surgery involves handing control over to their restricted stomachs or considering WLS as a tool to be worked with...

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

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

..Further, the study aimed to assess whether they are open to change and whether changing beliefs about cause resulted in a subsequent shift in beliefs about solutions...

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

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

..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...

..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...

..GPs sometimes use euphemisms rather than medical terms. The present study aimed to explore the relative impact of using the term 'obese' compared to GPs' preferred euphemism on patients' beliefs about the problem...

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

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..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...

..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 indicate that dietary changes may not be as infrequent and difficult as often assumed and highlight an array of new mechanisms which could be explored further to promote behaviour change...

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

..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...

..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...

..Providing choice in health care is part of an ongoing policy initiative...

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..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...

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

..Issuing sick notes is one of the core tasks of General Practice and yet little research has explored how doctors decide whether or not to offer a sick note...

..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...

..Research has shown that doctor's make judgements about patients on the basis of their demographic characteristics. Little is known about how patients judge their doctors...

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

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

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

..CONCLUSION: If expectant management is to be more widely offered, women should be told not only of the likely clinical effect of letting a miscarriage run its course but also how women experience this...

..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...

..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...

..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...

..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...

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

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..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...

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

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