Patient Acceptance of Health Care - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults.

7 Oct 2009 Only half of older adults with a mental disorder use mental health services, and little is known about the causes of perceived need for mental health care (MHC). We used logistic regression to examine relationships among depression, anxiety, chronic ... Read more...

Upper gastrointestinal symptoms, psychosocial co-morbidity and health care seeking in general practice: population based case control study.

7 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The pathophysiology of upper gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms is still poorly understood. Psychological symptoms were found to be more common in patients with functional gastrointestinal complaints, but it is debated whether they are ... Read more...

Involvement of adolescents in decision making for heart transplants.

30 Aug 2009 Every year, hundreds of children and adolescents are faced with the need for heart transplantation to survive end-stage cardiac disease. This experience extends far beyond the surgical intervention, for it begins with a waiting period that may ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Patient Acceptance of Health Care - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults. 7 Oct 2009
• Upper gastrointestinal symptoms, psychosocial co-morbidity and health care seeking in general practice: population based case control study. 7 Sep 2009
• Involvement of adolescents in decision making for heart transplants. 30 Aug 2009
• Women's use of complementary and alternative medicine during pregnancy: a critical review of the literature. 30 Aug 2009
• Women's experiences of participating in the Magpie Trial: a postal survey in the United Kingdom. 30 Aug 2009
• Primigravid women's views of being approached to participate in a hypothetical term cephalic trial of planned vaginal birth versus planned cesarean birth. 30 Aug 2009
• Estimating the rate of cesarean section by maternal request: anonymous survey of obstetricians in Australia. 30 Aug 2009
• Microbicide acceptability among female sex workers in Beijing, China: results from a pilot study. 30 Aug 2009
• An approach to enhance communication about screening mammography in primary care. 30 Aug 2009
• Health-related beliefs and decisions about accessing HIV medical care among HIV-infected persons who are not receiving care. 30 Aug 2009
• Psychosocial implications of gastrostomy placement. 30 Aug 2009
• GPs' role in the detection of psychological problems of young people: a population-based study. 30 Aug 2009
• Lack of association between neuropsychological performance and level of psychosis-proneness in an adolescent psychiatric sample. 30 Aug 2009
• Patient knowledge of physician responsibilities and their preferences for care in ophthalmology teaching clinics. 30 Aug 2009
• Elective caesarean sections--risks to the infant. 27 Aug 2009
• Willingness of Hong Kong healthcare workers to accept pre-pandemic influenza vaccination at different WHO alert levels: two questionnaire surveys. 23 Aug 2009
• Community pharmacist services for people with mental illnesses: preferences, satisfaction, and stigma. 30 Jul 2009
• Perceived stigma and barriers to mental health care utilization among OEF-OIF veterans. 30 Jul 2009
• Preventive screening of women who use complementary and alternative medicine providers. 30 Jul 2009
• Comment on "Preventive screening of women who use complementary and alternative medicine providers". 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Patient Acceptance of Health Care'

Definition: The seeking and acceptance by patients of health service.

Descriptor UI: D010342

Alternative terms: Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Patient Acceptance of Healthcare; Healthcare Patient Acceptance; Healthcare Patient Acceptances; Acceptor Characteristics; Acceptor Characteristic; Characteristic, Acceptor; Characteristics, Acceptor; Acceptors; Acceptors, New; Acceptor, New; New Acceptor; New Acceptors; Program Acceptability; Acceptability, Program; Health Care Seeking Behavior; Method Acceptability; Acceptability, Method; Nonacceptor Characteristics; Characteristic, Nonacceptor; Characteristics, Nonacceptor; Nonacceptor Characteristic; Nonacceptors; Nonacceptor; Acceptability of Health Care; Health Care Acceptability; Acceptability of Healthcare; Healthcare Acceptabilities; Healthcare Acceptability; Acceptors, Repeat; Acceptor, Repeat; Repeat Acceptor; Repeat Acceptors;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: N05.300.150.600;

History Note: 75

Technical Notes: DF: PATIENT ACCEPT