Table of Contents
Using Health Services
Perceiving and Interpreting Symptoms
Personality and Hypertension: Effect of Hypertension Awareness
Personality and Hypertension: Conclusion
Perceiving and Interpreting Symptoms
Symptoms Awareness
Expectations
Placebos
PPT Slide
Medical student’s disease -
Mass Psychogenic Illness
Cultural Factors
Help-Seeking – Lay Referral Network
Who Uses Health Services?
Why People Don’t Use Health Services
Why People Don’t Use Health Services
Factors influencing how people cope with health anxiety
Mulitvariate Predictors of Non - Adherence to Ovarian Cancer Screening
Misusing Health Care Services
The Patient/Practitioner Relationship
What Happens When There is a Mismatch?
The Practitioner’s Behaviour
Medical Terms Meaning – Match terms to meanings
Why Physicians Use Jargon
What to we want in a doctor?
The Patient’s Behaviour that Upsets the Doctor
How do patients impair communications?
Why do people describe their symptoms differently?
Compliance
Extent of non-adherence problem
Adherence
Distribution of Adherence
Measuring Adherence in Clinical Practice
Forms of Non-Adherence
Patients’ Reasons for Not Adhering
Rational Reasons for Non-adherence
Non-adherence: Characteristics of the regimen
Non-adherence: Cognitive-Emotional Factors
Non-adherence: Cognitive-Emotional Factors
Non-Adherence: Psychosocial Factors
Non-Adherence: Knowledge/Beliefs
Non- Adherence - Behaviour
Donald E. Morisky’s Questions
Brian Haynes’ Question
Haynes et al., - results Compared to pill count
Increasing Patient Adherence
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