Health Psychology : a Textbook

it will last); (4) cause (e.g. caused by smoking, caused by a virus); and (5) cure/control (e.g. requires medical intervention). ...

preconceived ideas that may be expressed through the structure of their questions, through their responses to the interviewee, o ...

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4 Doctor–patient communication and the role of health professionals’ health beliefs CHAPTER OVERVIEW This chapter first examines ...

and also in terms of the effect on recovery, and then reviews the adherence model, which was an attempt to go beyond the traditi ...

WHAT IS COMPLIANCE? Haynes et al. (1979) defined compliance as ‘the extent to which the patient’s behaviour (in terms of taking ...

satisfaction stem from various components of the consultation, in particular the affective aspects (e.g. emotional support and u ...

of smoking behaviour, 50 per cent of individuals thought that lung cancer caused by smoking had a good prognosis. Roth also repo ...

randomly selected for the study. Patients were selected if they were aged 16–75, did not have a life-threatening condition, if t ...

The results showed that although all subjects reported high levels of satisfaction immediately after the consultation in terms o ...

The role of information Researchers have examined the role of information and the type of information on improving patient compl ...

THE WIDER ROLE OF INFORMATION IN ILLNESS Information and recovery from surgery Information may also be related to recovery and o ...

on preparation for surgery, Johnston and Vogele (1993) concluded that preparation for surgery in the form of both procedural inf ...

Problems with the traditional approach to doctor–patient communication Traditional models of the communication between health pr ...

In addition, if doctors’ behaviour were objective then their behaviour would be consist- ent. However, considerable variability ...

guidance and direction for the problem his solver. Heuristics may involve developing parallels between the present problem and p ...

Clinical decisions as problem solving Clinical decisions can be conceptualized as a form of problem solving and involve the deve ...

collected subsequent to the development of a hypothesis may be systematically distorted to support the original hypothesis (Wall ...

2 The health professional’s estimate of the probability of the hypothesis and disease. Health professionals will have pre-existi ...

(1991) manipulated mood in a group of medical students and evaluated the effect of induced positive affect on their decision-mak ...