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https://read.qxmd.com/read/24977140/patient-attitudes-towards-physician-nonverbal-behaviors-during-consultancy-result-from-a-developing-country
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Fahad Hanif Khan, Raheela Hanif, Rumina Tabassum, Waris Qidwai, Kashmira Nanji
Background. Nonverbal behaviors have a significant impact on patients during consultations. This study was undertaken to find out the attitudes and preferences of the patients regarding nonverbal communication during consultations with physicians, in a tertiary care hospital. Methods. A questionnaire based cross-sectional study was carried out at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, during the months of January to March 2012. All patients (>18 years of age) coming for consultancy in the family medicine clinics were approached; out of 133, 120 agreed to participate...
2014: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967333/the-potential-value-of-sleep-hygiene-for-a-healthy-pregnancy-a-brief-review
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Zachary M Ferraro, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Andrée Gruslin, Kristi B Adamo
The quality of the intrauterine environment influences maternal-fetal health and also offspring predisposition to obesity and cardiometabolic disease later in life. Several determinants, including but not limited to pregravid obesity and excessive gestational weight gain, alter the developmental milieu, fetal growth, and child obesity risk. However, the role of sleep and its relationship to healthy pregnancy is not fully established. Given the host of psychosocial and physiological complications associated with childhood obesity, targeting the gestational period is purported to be an opportune time for preventive intervention...
2014: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967332/qualitative-exploration-of-the-suitability-of-capability-based-instruments-to-measure-quality-of-life-in-family-carers-of-people-with-dementia
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Carys Jones, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Barry Hounsome
Background. In an ageing population, many individuals find themselves becoming a carer for an elderly relative. This qualitative study explores aspects of quality of life affected by caring for a person with dementia, with the aim of identifying whether capability based questionnaires are suitable for measuring carer quality of life. Methods. Semistructured interviews lasting up to an hour were conducted, November 2010-July 2011, with eight family carers of people with dementia. Interviews typically took place at the participants' homes and were recorded and transcribed verbatim...
2014: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967331/a-qualitative-study-of-psychosocial-problems-among-parents-of-children-with-cerebral-palsy-attending-two-tertiary-care-hospitals-in-western-india
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Somashekhar Nimbalkar, Shyamsundar Raithatha, Rutvij Shah, Dhara Antani Panchal
Objective. To explore the psychosocial problems faced by the parents of children with cerebral palsy (CP) in rural and urban settings. Design. Qualitative research design using focus group discussions (FGDs) was used for the study. Setting. Two FGDs comprising one at a rural tertiary level care hospital and the other at an urban tertiary level care hospital were conducted. Participants. A total of thirteen parents participated in the two FGDs. Main Outcome Measured. Psychosocial problems experienced by the parents of children suffering from CP were measured...
2014: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967330/self-care-practices-among-diabetic-patients-in-anand-district-of-gujarat
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Shyamsundar Jagdish Raithatha, Singh Uday Shankar, Kumar Dinesh
Background. Diabetes care requires a multipronged approach, wherein the patient has an important role to play. This study was undertaken to explore self-care practices of diabetic patients residing in Anand district of Gujarat. Methods. A cross-sectional study, involving 100 diabetic patients, was conducted in 2009-2010. Self-care practices in seven domains of physical activity, dietary practices, medication taking, monitoring of glucose, problem solving, foot care, and psychosocial adjustment were assessed using scores assigned to participants' responses...
2014: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967329/patient-choice-for-older-people-in-english-nhs-primary-care-theory-and-practice
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REVIEW
Andrew J E Harding, Frances Sanders, Antonieta Medina Lara, Edwin R van Teijlingen, Cate Wood, Di Galpin, Sue Baron, Sam Crowe, Sheetal Sharma
In the English National Health Service (NHS), patients are now expected to choose the time and place of treatment and even choose the actual treatment. However, the theory on which patient choice is based and the implementation of patient choice are controversial. There is evidence to indicate that attitudes and abilities to make choices are relatively sophisticated and not as straightforward as policy developments suggest. In addition, and surprisingly, there is little research on whether making individual choices about care is regarded as a priority by the largest NHS patient group and the single largest group for most GPs-older people...
2014: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967328/mothers-perception-and-healthcare-seeking-behavior-of-pneumonia-children-in-rural-bangladesh
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Farzana Ferdous, Fahmida Dil Farzana, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Sumon Kumar Das, Mohammad Abdul Malek, Jui Das, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti
We describe mothers' perception about signs and symptoms, causes of the illness, and healthcare seeking behaviors related to pneumonia and express the major modifiable barriers to seeking timely treatment when their under-5 children had pneumonia in rural Bangladesh. Using focus group discussion, we understood mothers' perception and healthcare seeking behavior of childhood pneumonia. Although mothers described pneumonia as a serious life threatening disease in young children but most of the mothers (n = 24) could not diagnose whether their child had pneumonia or not...
2014: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967327/home-care-learning-model-for-medical-students-in-chile-a-mixed-methods-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Diego Garcia-Huidobro, Solange Rivera, Carolina Gonzalez
Introduction. The relevance of home care training is not questioned. However, there are no reported learning models to teach in this setting. Aims. To develop and evaluate a learning model to teach home care to medical students. Methods. Stage 1: Learning Model Design. Tutors teaching home care and a sample of medical students were invited to focus groups analyzed according to the grounded theory. Later, the researchers designed the learning model, which was approved by all participants. Stage 2: Learning Assessment...
2014: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25025030/planning-for-serious-illness-by-the-general-public-a-population-based-survey
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Donna Goodridge, Elizabeth Quinlan, Rosemary Venne, Paulette Hunter, Doug Surtees
Background. While rates of advance care documentation amongst the general public remain low, there is increasing recognition of the value of informal planning to address patient preferences in serious illness. Objectives. To determine the associations between personal attributes and formal and informal planning for serious illness across age groups. Methods. This population-based, online survey was conducted in Saskatchewan, Canada, in April, 2012, using a nonclinical sample of 827 adults ranging from 18 to 88 years of age and representative of age, sex, and regional distribution of the province...
2013: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24982857/symptomatic-pectus-excavatum-in-seniors-an-exploratory-study-on-clinical-presentation-and-incidence-in-daily-practice
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Ron A G Winkens, Frank I Guldemond, Paul F H M Hoppener, Hans A Kragten, J Andre Knottnerus
Objectives. Doctors all over the world consider a pectus excavatum usually as an incidental finding. There is some evidence suggesting that a pectus excavatum may cause symptoms in the elderly. It is not known how often a pectus excavatum occurs and how strong the relation is with symptoms. Methods. In hospitals and general practice data, we searched for evidence of a connection between cardiac symptoms and the presence of a pectus excavatum in a retrospective survey among patients in whom a pectus excavatum was found in a chest X-ray...
2013: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967326/evaluation-of-rubella-immunity-in-a-community-prenatal-clinic
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Edward C Nwanegbo, Thor Swanson, Oluseyi Vanderpuye, Carlos F Rios-Bedoya
Since the introduction of the Rubella vaccine in 1969, prevalence of congenital Rubella syndrome (CRS) has greatly declined in the United States. However, reports of sporadic adult cases of the disease and frequent identification of non-Rubella immune (NRI) women in prenatal units may result in outbreak of CRS in susceptible communities. Identifying populations with high rates of NRI will assist in evidence-based public health intervention that may prevent epidemic of CRS in the United States. Method. This is a retrospective, cross-sectional study involving chart audit of Rubella screening results of 642 women who attended a high-risk prenatal care at a northwestern Iowa clinic between January 1 and December 31, 2007...
2013: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967325/factors-associated-with-antibiotic-prescribing-in-children-with-otitis-media
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Christina T Ryborg, Jens Søndergaard, Jørgen Lous, Anders Munck, Pia V Larsen, Malene Plejdrup Hansen, Janus Laust Thomsen
Background. Acute otitis media (AOM) is often treated with antibiotics. However, initial observation is recommended. Denmark has a low use of antibiotics compared with other countries, but the total use of antibiotics has increased by 32% during the last decade, and it is important to know whether general practitioners (GPs) prescribe antibiotics according to guidelines. Objective. The aim of the study was to analyse associations between GPs' antibiotic prescribing for AOM and symptoms, diagnoses, and characteristics of children...
2013: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967324/concurrent-and-convergent-validity-of-the-simple-lifestyle-indicator-questionnaire
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Marshall Godwin, Andrea Pike, Cheri Bethune, Allison Kirby, Adam Pike
Lifestyle issues including physical activity, diet, smoking, alcohol consumption, and self-reported stress have all been shown to predispose people to higher risk of cardiovascular disease. This study provides further psychometrics on the Simple Lifestyle Indicator Questionnaire (SLIQ), a short, easy-to-use instrument which measures all these lifestyle characteristics as a single construct. One hundred and ninety-three individuals from St. John's, Newfoundland, and Labrador, Canada completed the SLIQ and reference standards for diet, exercise, stress, and alcohol consumption...
2013: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967323/the-effect-of-training-in-primary-health-care-centers-on-medical-students-clinical-skills
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Faisal Abdullatif Alnasir, Ahmed Abdel-Karim Jaradat
Medical students' effective clinical skills training are an important goal of any medical school. When adequate, graduate doctors will have sufficient skills to consult a patient by taking proper history and conducting appropriate physical examination. The question under scrutiny is the optimal place for providing such training. Since the aim is to graduate general physicians, many literatures highlighted the importance of implementing such training in the primary health care centers. A special clinical skills training program was developed for the Year 4 pre-clerkship medical students of the Arabian Gulf University during the academic year 2011-2012...
2013: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967322/suicidal-ideation-in-a-population-based-sample-of-adolescents-implications-for-family-medicine-practice
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Esme Fuller-Thomson, Gail P Hamelin, Stephen J R Granger
Introduction. This study investigated the relationship between suicidal ideation and demographic characteristics, health conditions, depression, and health care utilization patterns among adolescents. Methods. Secondary analysis of the regionally representative Canadian Community Health Survey conducted in 2000/2001 (response rate 85%). Adolescents aged 15 to 19 who reported suicidal ideation in the previous year (n = 260) were compared with their peers who did not (n = 5528). The association between suicidal ideation and socio-demographic and health characteristics were investigated...
2013: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967321/using-nt-probnp-to-detect-chronic-heart-failure-in-elderly-patients-with-chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease
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Elzbieta Kaszuba, Bartlomiej Wagner, Håkan Odeberg, Anders Halling
Objective. To detect chronic heart failure in elderly patients with a registered diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treated in Swedish primary health care using natriuretic peptide NT-proBNP. Design. A cross-sectional study. Setting. Two primary health care centres in southeastern Sweden each with about 9000 listed patients. Subjects. Patients aged 65 years and older with a registered diagnosis of COPD. Main Outcome Measures. Percentage of patients with elevated NT-proBNP, percentage of patients with abnormal left ventricular function assessed by echocardiography, and association between elevated NT-proBNP and symptoms, signs, and electrocardiography...
2013: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967320/the-general-practitioner-s-consultation-approaches-to-medically-unexplained-symptoms-a-qualitative-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Henriette Schou Hansen, Marianne Rosendal, Per Fink, Mette Bech Risør
Background. The prevalence of medically unexplained symptoms (MUSs) in primary care is about 10-15%. The definition of MUS is descriptive and there are no specific diagnostic criteria for MUS in primary care. Furthermore, a general practitioner's (GP's) categorisation of patients with MUS shows large variation. The aim of the present study is to investigate how GPs employ the definition of MUS and how they manage patients with MUS in daily practice. Methods. With a grounded theory approach five focus group interviews with GPs were performed...
2013: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24967319/beta-cell-age-calculator-a-translational-yardstick-to-communicate-diabetes-risk-with-patients-tehran-lipid-and-glucose-study
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Mohammadreza Bozorgmanesh, Farzad Hadaegh, Fereidoun Azizi
Aims. To provide a yardstick for physicians/patients to efficiently communicate/measure incident diabetes risk. Methods. We included data on 5,960 (3,438 women) diabetes-free adults, aged ≥20 years at baseline who either developed diabetes during two consecutive examinations or completed the followup. Age, systolic blood pressure, family history of diabetes, waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), triglyceride-to-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (TG/HDLD-C), and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) were introduced into an accelerated failure time regression model...
2013: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24959579/long-term-parental-unemployment-in-childhood-and-subsequent-chronic-fatigue-syndrome
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Esme Fuller-Thomson, Rukshan Mehta, Joanne Sulman
Objective. The association between long-term parental unemployment in childhood and chronic fatigue syndrome was examined in a population-based sample of women. Methods. A secondary analysis of data from a regionally representative sample of women (n = 7, 288) from the Canadian Community Health Survey (2005) was conducted using logistic regression. Age and race as well as the following clusters of factors were controlled for: (1) other childhood adversities, (2) adult health behaviors and hypertension, (3) adult stressors and socioeconomic status, and (4) adult mental health...
2013: ISRN Family Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24959578/is-there-a-need-for-men-s-health-training-for-family-physicians-in-canada
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andries Muller, Vivian R Ramsden, Gill White
Objective. The goal of this study was to explore which topics were rendered important to incorporate into a men's health curriculum for family medicine resident training. Design. A mixed-methodology was used. A case study method with a sequential transformative strategy was utilized. A quantitative survey was sent to the 17 program directors of Canadian family medicine training programs. This was followed by a qualitative phase with interviews of selected program directors and two focus groups with practicing family physicians from a rural and an urban clinic...
2013: ISRN Family Medicine
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