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Antidepressants: People?s Beliefs About Using These Drugs
People who are hesitant to use antidepressants most often are young, have never taken antidepressants, view their depression as mild and temporary, and feel unclear about the reasons for their depression.
This is according to an interesting medical study, Explaining Patients? Beliefs About the Necessity and Harmfulness of Antidepressants, that looked at patients? beliefs about the use of medications to treat their depression.
Guidelines for the treatment of depression recommend that people with a diagnosis of depression take medications for at least eight months after their depression symptoms have lessened. However, more than 50% of patients stop their medication too soon or take it erratically, which may increase their risk for a return of depression symptoms.
The authors of this study suggested that physicians need to address these concerns with their patients to help them make better informed decisions about whether to use antidepressant medications. However, a physician?s indifference about these issues may increase the likelihood that their patients will not take their medications and, therefore, not recover.
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Antidepressants: People?s Beliefs About Using These Drugs originally appeared on About.com Drugs on Friday, January 30th, 2009 at 12:56:30.
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A comparative evaluation of the effect of internet-based CME delivery format on satisfaction, knowledge and confidence
Background:Internet-based instruction in continuing medical education (CME) has been associated with favorable outcomes. However, more direct comparative studies of different Internet-based interventions, instructional methods, presentation formats, and approaches to implementation are needed. The purpose of this study was to conduct a comparative evaluation of two Internet-based CME delivery formats and the effect on satisfaction, knowledge and confidence outcomes.Methods:Evaluative outcomes of two differing formats of an Internet-based CME course with identical subject matter were compared. A Scheduled Group Learning format involved case-based asynchronous discussions with peers and a facilitator over a scheduled 3-week delivery period. An eCME On Demand format did not include facilitated discussion and was not based on a schedule; participants could start and finish at any time. A retrospective, pre-post evaluation study design comparing identical satisfaction, knowledge and confidence outcome measures was conducted.Results:Participants in the Scheduled Group Learning format reported significantly higher mean satisfaction ratings in some areas, performed significantly higher on a post-knowledge assessment and reported significantly higher post-confidence scores than participants in the eCME On Demand format that was not scheduled and did not include facilitated discussion activity.Conclusions:The findings support the instructional benefits of a scheduled delivery format and facilitated asynchronous discussion in Internet-based CME.
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Mortality rates for pediatric rheumatology patients significantly lower than previously reported
A recent study found that the overall mortality rate in the US for all pediatric patients with rheumatic diseases was not worse than the age and sex-adjusted population. Furthermore, mortality rates were significantly lower than reported in previous studies of rheumatic diseases and conditions that are associated with increased mortality.
Antidepressants: People?s Beliefs About Using These Drugs
People who are hesitant to use antidepressants most often are young, have never taken antidepressants, view their depression as mild and temporary, and feel unclear about the reasons for their depression.
This is according to an interesting medical study, Explaining Patients? Beliefs About the Necessity and Harmfulness of Antidepressants, that looked at patients? beliefs about the use of medications to treat their depression.
Guidelines for the treatment of depression recommend that people with a diagnosis of depression take medications for at least eight months after their depression symptoms have lessened. However, more than 50% of patients stop their medication too soon or take it erratically, which may increase their risk for a return of depression symptoms.
The authors of this study suggested that physicians need to address these concerns with their patients to help them make better informed decisions about whether to use antidepressant medications. However, a physician?s indifference about these issues may increase the likelihood that their patients will not take their medications and, therefore, not recover.
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Photo ? iStockphoto/aldomurillo
Antidepressants: People?s Beliefs About Using These Drugs originally appeared on About.com Drugs on Friday, January 30th, 2009 at 12:56:30.
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Symptoms have little value for early detection of ovarian cancer
Use of symptoms to trigger a medical evaluation for ovarian cancer does not appear to detect early-stage ovarian cancer earlier and would likely result in diagnosis in only 1 out of 100 women in the general population with such symptoms, according to a new article.
Brain Responses During Anesthesia Mimic Those During Natural Deep Sleep
The brains of people under anesthesia respond to stimuli as they do in the deepest part of sleep – lending credence to a developing theory of consciousness and suggesting a new method to assess loss of consciousness in conditions such as coma…
Pedagogical strategies used in clinical medical education: an observational study
Background:Clinical teaching is a complex learning situation influenced by the learning content, the setting and the participants’ actions and interactions. Few empirical studies have been conducted in order to explore how clinical supervision is carried out in authentic situations. In this study we explore how clinical teaching is carried out in a clinical environment with medical students.Methods:Following an ethnographic approach looking for meaning patterns, similarities and differences in how clinical teachers manage clinical teaching; non-participant observations and informal interviews were conducted during a four month period 2004-2005. The setting was at a teaching hospital in Sweden. The participants were clinical teachers and their 4th year medical students taking a course in surgery. The observations were guided by the aim of the study. Observational notes and notes from informal interviews were transcribed after each observation and all data material was analysed qualitatively.Results:Seven pedagogical strategies were found to be applied, namely: 1) Questions and answers, 2) Lecturing, 3) Piloting, 4) Prompting, 5) Supplementing, 6) Demonstrating, and 7) Intervening.Conclusions:This study contributes to previous research in describing a repertoire of pedagogical strategies used in clinical education. The findings showed that three superordinate qualitatively different ways of teaching could be identified that fit Ramsden’s model. Each of these pedagogical strategies encompass different focus in teaching; either a focus on the teacher’s knowledge and behaviour or the student’s behaviour and understanding. We suggest that an increased awareness of the strategies in use will increase clinical teachers’ teaching skills and the consequences they will have on the students’ ability to learn. The pedagogical strategies need to be considered and scrutinized in further research in order to verify their impact on students’ learning.
Pelosi Outlines Strategy To Pass Health Reform In House
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday said that she could gather enough votes to pass the Senate’s health care reform bill (HR 3590) if the upper chamber agrees to make several changes to the bill through reconciliation, CongressDaily reports…
State Budget News From Kansas, Massachusetts And Idaho
News outlets report on state budget news in Kansas, Massachusetts, Idaho and Minnesota. Kansas Health Institute reports that the recession is crippling Kansas’ safety-net system. “The Kansas unemployment insurance system is virtually broke at a time when Department of Labor officials say they need about $15 million a week to pay benefits to out-of-work Kansans…
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