DEVELOPMENT OF A SCALE TO MEASURE PSYCHOSOCIAL REACTION ASSOCIATED WITH THE APPROACHABILITY OF FAMILY PRACTICE CONSULTATIONS

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M.W. Hackett ◽  
Lionel D. Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Reliability Analysis ◽  
Family Practice ◽  
Family Doctor ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
The Family ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Significant Factors

The paper reports the development of a 17 item questionnaire to measure the approachability of family practice consultations. Approachability is selectively taken to be a function of the ability to make an appointment and as a perception of whether the family doctor is open and approachable. One hundred and six users of family practice services, were approached on an opportunity basis and completed the questionnaire. Factor analysis and reliability analysis demonstrated the instrument to be structured by three significant factors. The factors were labelled ‘the doctor’, ‘the consultation environment’ and ‘emotions’. The questionnaire is subject to further development to allow its wider use to gauge the effects of individual consultations on patients.

Presenting Symptoms in Childhood

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 823-823
Author(s):  
Ross G. MITCHELL
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Family Practice ◽  
Rare Diseases ◽  
Family Doctor ◽  
Presenting Symptoms ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
The Family

The medical care of children in Great Britain is largely in the hands of the family doctor. A monograph on symptoms in childhood as encountered in family practice could therefore be of great value. Dr. Fry has tried to produce such a volume but unfortunately falls short of his aim, for his book unhappily combines a synopsis of rare diseases, inappropriate in a book of this kind, with a rather more useful treatise on diagnosis. It imparts some sound advice but contains much unnecessary and misleading detail. In its emphasis, the book has a curiously old-fashioned flavor, in spite of interpolated fragments of information on "recent advances." Neither in tone nor in matter does it reflect the thinking and practice of British pediatricians.

Smaller Heroes I Didn’t See

2011 ◽  
pp. 165-172
Author(s):  
Brendan O Shea
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Family Practice ◽  
Family Doctor ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Practice Setting ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
Standard Manner ◽  
Practice Audit ◽  
Do So

The theme of this chapter explores aspects of professional blindness in the family practice setting. The exploration uses the vehicle of an exercise in practice audit, which resulted in a more meaningful level of interaction between the GP and a particular group of individuals in his practice. What set out as a quantitative exercise in audit inadvertently threw up valuable qualitative insights and reflections on how this family doctor had previously viewed this group of individuals in the past, and more importantly, would do so in the future. In particular, the exercise challenges us to look for and see the ambitions and hopes of those individuals who attend us for medical care, in order to properly respect these important aspects of their humanity, and to assist us in more easily rising beyond the confines unwittingly imposed and accepted by a passive acceptance of disease defined horizons and the medical model. The audit outcomes include improved levels of achievement in the relevant markers of good care, easily and unremarkably measurable in the standard manner. A key outcome, rather more difficult to measure, included an increased respect and recognition of the difficulties, efforts, challenges, fears, hopes and varied realities experienced by this most particular group of eclectically selected individuals.

Measuring Impact of Stress in Sandwich Generation Caring for Demented Parents

GeroPsych ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 171-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence M. Solberg ◽  
Lauren B. Solberg ◽  
Emily N. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Resource Availability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sandwich Generation ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Adult Caregivers ◽  
The Impact

Stress in caregivers may affect the healthcare recipients receive. We examined the impact of stress experienced by 45 adult caregivers of their elderly demented parents. The participants completed a 32-item questionnaire about the impact of experienced stress. The questionnaire also asked about interventions that might help to reduce the impact of stress. After exploratory factor analysis, we reduced the 32-item questionnaire to 13 items. Results indicated that caregivers experienced stress, anxiety, and sadness. Also, emotional, but not financial or professional, well-being was significantly impacted. There was no significant difference between the impact of caregiver stress on members from the sandwich generation and those from the nonsandwich generation. Meeting with a social worker for resource availability was identified most frequently as a potentially helpful intervention for coping with the impact of stress.

Assessment of the older patient with chronic kidney disease and polypharmacy − the perspective of the family doctor

Medic ro ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (125) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Liliana-Ana Tuţă ◽  
Laura Condur ◽  
Alina Mihaela Stăniguţ ◽  
Camelia Pană
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Kidney Disease ◽  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Family Doctor ◽  
Older Patient ◽  
The Family

Providing Care of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury by the Family Practice/Primary Care Optometrist

2018 ◽  
pp. 110-119
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Family Practice ◽  
Advanced Training ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
The Family ◽  
Basic Understanding ◽  
The Brain

Primary Objectives: By extending the scope of knowledge of the primary care optometrist, the brain injury population will have expanded access to entry level neurooptometric care by optometric providers who have a basic understanding of their neurovisual problems, be able to provide some treatment and know when to refer to their colleagues who have advanced training in neuro-optometric rehabilitation.

scholarly journals Development of a measure of kindness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna E. Youngs ◽  
Miroslava A. Yaneva ◽  
David V. Canter
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
External Validity ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Psychometric Instrument ◽  
Smallest Space Analysis ◽  
Item Questionnaire

AbstractIn the spirit of the growing developments in positive psychology, there is an increasing interest in how kind people are to each other. Yet, this area lacks any strong psychometric instrument. An initial exploratory study demonstrated that a 40-item questionnaire, completed by 165 people, revealed distinct aspects of kindness when subjected to multivariate analysis. A subsequent study is reported, using the structure of the exploratory results to further clarify the conceptual framework (Study 1). The revised 45-item questionnaire was administered to 1039 individuals from the general British population. Smallest Space Analysis of the variables, supported by Factor analysis, confirmed the hypothesis of two facets to kindness, the psychological source of the action (from principles or empathy), and the form of expression (through psychological involvement or following social prescription. It also revealed an additional general, core kindness, labelled Anthropophilia. Reliable scales derived from the combinations of the two elements from each facet were identified: Affective-Socially Prescribed; Affective-Proactive; Principle-Socially Prescribed and Principle-Proactive. Intercorrelations between the scales revealed that they measure different modes of kindness. Comparisons between male and female respondents provided external validity for the questionnaire. Study 2 (N = 251) reported that the scales measure independent dimensions when correlated with similar and dissimilar concepts.

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