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Factors Affecting Students' Use of MEDLINE
(Elsevier, 1993-12)
MEDLINE search transcripts by a class of third-year medical students were analyzed. The 184 students were divided into three groups according to their search experience in terms of the number of sessions logged at the time ...
Measuring the attitudes of patients towards diabetes and its treatment
(Elsevier, 1990-12)
The following is a study of the general diabetes-related attitudes of 1202 patients with diabetes in Michigan. The instrument used to measure attitudes was a revised version of the Diabetes Attitude Scale (DAS) designed ...
Beliefs about control of smoking and smoking behavior: A comparison of different measures in different groups
(Elsevier, 1987)
This study investigated several measures of beliefs about controlling smoking as predictors of cessation and reduction at one and six months after a medically-based control program. Smokers (n = 250 total) attending general ...
A comparison of the diabetes-related attitudes of health care professionals and patients
(Elsevier, 1993-06)
The following study compares the diabetesrelated attitudes of sampled health care professionals and patients with diabetes. Attitudes were measured with a revised version of the Diabetes Attitude Scale (DAS) which includes ...
A guide for assessing a patient's level of personal responsibility for diabetes management
(Elsevier, 1990-12)
This paper presents a guide for assessing a diabetic patient's level of personal responsibility. In the general population, high levels of personal responsibility have been shown to be related to psychological well-being ...
Sensitivity to patient's psychosocial concerns: Relationships among ratings by primary care and traditional internal medicine house officers and patient self-assessments
(Elsevier, 1990)
This study examined house officers' sensitivity to patients' psychosocial concerns. Primary care house officers, traditionally trained internal medicine house officers, a social worker, and 104 ambulatory care patients ...