Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
...and we must continue to practice with professional attitudes and behaviors no matter what the pressures we face...ents and their physicians to determine if negative attitudes toward HIV-infected injection drug users affected the patient's exposure to highly active antiretrov...Study finds majority of women willing to accept cervical cancer vaccine for self and children
...ting on Women's Cancer in Miami, describes women's attitudes toward a potential cervical cancer vaccine, focusing on their willingness to accept it for themselves, and their daughters and sons. It is the first study to examine women's perceptions of a vaccine for both girls and boys. Specifically, the study i...Cardiologists underestimate racial and ethnic disparities in care
...(failure to adhere to treatment, health behaviors, attitudes towards doctors, and understanding of treatment). ...isparity, and only 25 percent considered physician attitudes to be important. To overcome disparities, 59 percent felt that increasing patients' self-management ...HIV-1 spread through six transmission lines in the UK
...re have been important changes in Britain's social attitudes and awareness of HIV-1 and AIDS. Despite a very recent increase in high-risk behaviour among men having sex with men, a significant increase in condom use has been reported since 1990, which could explain the equilibrium reached for the number of inf...Teen athletes continue tobacco use, despite severe consequences
...se, and the students' perception of their coaches' attitudes toward tobacco. Almost 40% of the students who had...utine oral screenings in this group; and students' attitudes toward tobacco use are affected by their perception of their coaches' attitudes, beliefs, and practi...Americans support most uses of reproductive genetic testing, report on US attitudes reveals
...t public opinion survey ever conducted of American attitudes toward genetic testing reveal that more than 67 pe...ethics and morality. "These exceptionally nuanced attitudes of the American public are not mirrored in the polarized political debates that currently paralyze p...Campus can be effective site for anti-smoking efforts
...moking programs and other interventions can change attitudes and reduce tobacco use among college students, lead author Rebecca Murphy-Hoefer said. Some of the better results came from "environmental" interventions like no-smoking zones, anti-tobacco advertisements and smoking-restricted dormitories. Anti-to...Risk factors affect parents' attitudes about STD vaccinations
...hology, and his colleagues are evaluating parental attitudes toward adolescent vaccination for STDs in anticipation of availability of vaccines that are currently in various stages of development. "Health professionals have expressed concern that many parents will be resistant for a variety of reasons ...Male surgeons report highest rate of mistakes in patient care
...takes in patient care, reveals a study of doctors' attitudes to "adverse events" in Quality and Safety in Health Care . But the study also shows how difficult doctors find it to criticise the ethics and professional conduct of their colleagues, to their own and their colleagues' detriment. The findings are b......rris Cotton Cancer Center examined the beliefs and attitudes of 360 women aged 40 or older about reducing Pap t... Papanicolaou tests. The most powerful drivers of attitudes toward screening intensity were a habit of annual screening, a woman's perceived risk of cervical ca...How the stories of ordinary people could give them more say over planning decisions
...ltural and other factors which lie behind people's attitudes and reactions to technological risks to themselves and to their environment. It will also be possible to explore various local influences on people's understandings of technological risks, and track how they develop and sustain particular values. Pro...Need better social research but it doesn't come cheap
...the results of this kind of research but current attitudes to funding are inappropriate." Interviewers would need a lot more training, and respondents might have to commit to multiple and lengthy sessions more like those used now for medical trials - with costs to match. Professor Loomes points out that many...January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...experiences. These findings suggest that negative attitudes and concerns about stigma may be important barriers to youth accepting and complying with treatment. The authors assert that improved reimbursement to primary care physicians for visits in which they negotiate diagnosis and treatment plans with depre...Beliefs may hinder HIV prevention among African-Americans
... men who have such beliefs also have more negative attitudes toward condoms and use them less consistently. Th... the survey were questions about HIV/AIDS beliefs, attitudes toward condoms, and condom use. More than half (53.4 percent) of those surveyed said they believe t...Landmark survey reveals asthma in children remains significantly out of control in the United States
...from February to May 2004, and assessed knowledge, attitudes and behavior regarding children and asthma. The maximum expected sampling error associated with a sample of this size would be +/- 3.5 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. The survey was released on behalf of Asthma Action America, a nati...Pharmaceutical marketing tactics hold little sway with prescribing physicians
... many physicians are skeptical of or hold negative attitudes toward sales representatives," he said. "Physicians recognize that information presented is biased toward the promoted drug and is unlikely to be objective or even accurate. Thus, physicians often discount information received from a sales represen...Minority teens' views of drug use differ from reality
... their own ethnicity and compared those with their attitudes and propensity toward taking drugs and their perceptions of drug use among peers. Unlike most Black young people, few Whites looked at ethnic identity as a significant element in their developing sense of self, Miller-Day notes. However, White youth...Studies reveal physicians' attitudes on end-of-life care
...ion and assisted suicide. In addition, physicians' attitudes were related to two notable factors: their experie... not in Connecticut or other states. While general attitudes toward end-of-life care were similar among doctors in training and doctors who had been in practice,...Employees bring bad moods home, but they disappear by morning
...ow, no one has ever looked at the spillover of job attitudes to mood at home that same day, and then followed it the next day (at work) as well." Judge and Remus Ilies, a management professor at Michigan State University, in Lansing, surveyed 55 UF employees who had access to both a computer at work and at ho...Student nurses need better understanding of poverty-stricken patients
... poverty. It is not uncommon to encounter negative attitudes toward the poor, even in our classes. There are a ...revealed that those students who had more positive attitudes toward the poor were more likely to believe that societal, rather than individual factors accounted ...