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Access to oral health care has been a topic of concern among dental and community health professionals in the United States for some time. The American Dental Association is piloting a new program aimed at expanding the current dental health workforce and alleviating some of the problems associated w...
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PMID: 21905543
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Care Homes are usually seen as the last refuge for older people but residents are sometimes required to move between homes for administrative purposes. There is concern that such moves threaten their well-being and survival. Relocations have been contested repeatedly in court. A rece...
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PMID: 21642641
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Jocelyn J Catty,
Sarah S White,
Marsha M Koletsi,
Thomas T Becker,
Angelo A Fioritti,
Rana R Kalkan,
Christoph C Lauber,
Pascale P Lissouba,
Wulf W Rössler,
Toma T Tomov,
Jooske T JT van Busschbach,
Durk D Wiersma,
Tom T Burns and
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We aimed to determine predictors of good relationships, using data from an international randomized controlled trial of supported employment (n=312). Baseline predictors of early therapeutic relationships with vocational workers were assessed, along with the impact of vocational status and changing...
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PMID: 21094532
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Receptionists are employed as administrative assistants, but in Community Health Centres, especially rural ones, they are the first step in service delivery, the intake system. This has implications for the people seeking services and for receptionists. This paper looks at receptioni...
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PMID: 21612728
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To implement a role-reversal exercise to increase first-year pharmacy students' awareness of communication barriers in the health care setting, especially for deaf and hard-of-hearing patients.
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PMID: 21655407
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Preparation of a system of community cooperation clinical pathway is called for by The Basic Act on Anti-Cancer Measures and The Basic Plans for National Cancer Strategy. Designated cancer care hospitals should play a very important role in constructing a local communication system among hospitals, c...
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PMID: 21498991
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Research shows that few social workers are interested in working with cognitively impaired older adults, such as those with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. As the number of individuals with dementia grows, the demand for social workers to provide services to patients with...
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PMID: 21553576
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Empathy is more important than ever to a national population worried about difficult political and socioeconomic situations. During the last 10 years, an enormous amount of research has been carried out to elucidate the nature, mechanism, and function of empathy. New research from so...
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PMID: 21553577
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Research indicates that many social work practitioners are interested in using spiritual interventions in clinical settings. Unfortunately, studies also indicate that practitioners have frequently received minimal training on the topic during their graduate education. Drawing from th...
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PMID: 21553578
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Research on parental bereavement has focused historically on single or partnered cross-gendered (heterosexual) bereaved parents. No previous studies have examined the unique experiences of same-gendered bereaved parents. This multiple-case study focused on child death in same-gendere...
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PMID: 21553580
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This paper is a report of a further analysis of data from an ethnographic study of the nature of communication between children and health professionals in a child hospital setting.
There is a paucity of research on the nature of communication between health professio...
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PMID: 21091913
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The purpose of this paper is to study patients' attitudes to nurses and investigate what hampering factors occur in the actual nursing situation and what patient features might affect cooperative climates.
In-depth interviews were conducted with 11 male inpatients suf...
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PMID: 21916145
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between experiences during childbirth and satisfaction with childbirth services.
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PMID: 21938968
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In the course of their duties staff members of the psychiatric emergency services may quite often find themselves in unpredictable and, in some cases, threatening situations. For this reason, staff working for the emergency services need to have specific personality traits.
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PMID: 21404171
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The need for patient-centeredness in care delivery has been articulated for decades, yet meaningful progress toward patient-centered healthcare has been hobbled by the lack of a replicable patient-centered care model and method. The authors describe the patient- and family-centered care method, buil...
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PMID: 21084890
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To characterize veterinarian-client communication with undisclosed standardized clients (USCs) during discussions regarding euthanasia of a pet.
Descriptive study.
32 companion animal veterinarians (16 males and 16 females) in southern Ontario.
During 2 clinic visits, 2 cases (a geriatric dog with w...
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PMID: 21118013
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This article provides detailed information about assessing the mental health needs of older adults as well as strategies to maintain mental health. An overview of the public health needs of older adults is provided that includes examples of policies that ensure minimum physical and mental health for...
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PMID: 20971342
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We mailed a 39-item self-administered survey to the 1256 staff at 135 federally qualified health centers (FQHC) implementing the Health Disparities Collaboratives (HDC), a large-scale QI collaborative intervention. We asked about the extent to which the HDC yielded improvements or detriments beyond...
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PMID: 20966782
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Our study documents that many hospitals are not providing language services in a manner consistent with federal law. Enforcement of these regulations is inconsistent, and thus does not motivate hospitals to comply. Compliance will likely come with new guidelines, currently being written, by many of...
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PMID: 21063229
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Performance anxiety, or stage fright, is anxiety aroused about potential mishaps in performance that expose feared inadequacies before an audience and which evoke feelings of embarrassment and humilation. For affected musicians, performance anxiety can be emotionally devastating, as their career cho...
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PMID: 21170476
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Elderly, chronically ill people experience frequent changes in health status that require transitions among health care providers and settings. This issue brief describes two projects that identified the essential elements of effective care management interventions for this population and the facili...
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PMID: 21053533
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Primary care characteristics associated with GP contact in an ED rather than another site reflect individual characteristics (affiliation with a primary GP and perceived needs) rather than the geographic availability of healthcare, both among those with and without chronic conditions....
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PMID: 20856143
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There is growing evidence that internalized stigma, or self-stigma, is a unique source of distress in the lives of people with severe mental illness. Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy is a structured group-based intervention aimed specifically at reducing internalized stigma and promoting...
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PMID: 21048471
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As health care has become increasingly sophisticated, health care providers struggle to ensure that patients do not become isolated and overwhelmed with the many specialists, support personnel, and technology they encounter in their hospital experiences. Hospitalized older patients often have comple...
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PMID: 21053785
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We describe recent policy interventions related to maternal health, including the National Rural Health Mission established in 2005. We then outline villagers' commentaries on the specific maternal death, focusing on the costs to women's health (and sometimes life) of high fertility; the lack of car...
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PMID: 20561728
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We propose a scientific study of therapists' verbal behavior from a behaviorist perspective. Data were obtained through observational analysis of the recordings of 16 clinical sessions involving 4 cases, all of which based on individual cognitive-behavioral therapy with adults, in the framework of p...
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PMID: 20977039
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We propose that the analysis of therapists' motivating verbalizations should focus on descriptions of the past, present and future consequences of the client's behavior....
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PMID: 21044478
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Despite the considerable investment made in recent years in Spain in substance abuse care, treatment adherence remains one of the aspects that determine the effectiveness of programs. Several authors have noted the importance of perceived service quality in this context. This paper is presented with...
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PMID: 21044481
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This research aims to explore patient satisfaction with ED physiotherapy within the Australian context by providing a qualitative perspective with in-depth exploration of the factors underlying patients' satisfaction. The physiotherapist was part of the Emergency Department Allied Health Team of soc...
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PMID: 20869660
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We used the priority index (calculated by combining the mean score on all items and correlated weight) to identify areas of emergency services in need of urgent improvement. There were 250 respondents; 147 males and 103 females. Six (6.4%) patients declined to answer the questionnaire. Time to surgi...
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PMID: 20869661
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To explore pharmacists' views on managing patients with chronic illness; to understand the incentives and barriers they perceive and the solutions they propose to overcome these barriers.
Hospital pharmacists, with experience in managing people with chronic illnesses, working in western Sydney, Aust...
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PMID: 20628817
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Jennifer Foster,
Rosa Burgos,
Carmen Tejada,
Ramona Cáceres,
Asela T Altamonte,
Lydia J Perez,
Frank R M Noboa,
Marilyn F Urbaez,
Annemarie Heath,
Rebecca C Hilliard,
Fidela Chiang and
Priscilla Hall
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to understand both men's and women's beliefs and attitudes regarding public maternity and newborn services, care and quality.
qualitative, cross-sectional, retrospective study with an observation arm, using community-based participatory research as both the mechanism of enquiry and catalyst for chan...
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PMID: 20692744
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While the incidence of psychological distress among people receiving treatment for cancer in outpatient treatment settings has received attention by researchers, few studies have investigated the incidence of psychological distress in inpatient settings. Similarly, efficacy or effectiveness studies...
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PMID: 20938880
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The author considers sensory perceptions arising from the body to be the first expressions of self-consciousness and mental existence in patients who are overwhelmed by a dimensionless abyss of nothingness. This perspective can help the analyst in catalyzing the patient's integration with his deepes...
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PMID: 21141781
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Action-prone patients are difficult for most analysts to treat. The author describes patients who act in treatment by pressuring themselves and the analyst to get rid of what is wrong, to change the imperative, life-and-death qualities of need into something else. Viewing neediness in treatment as n...
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PMID: 21141784
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