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Usher, Wayne – Health Education Journal, 2011
Introduction: To identify health website recommendation trends by Gold Coast (Australia) general practitioners (GPs) to their patients. Method: A mixed method approach to data collection and analysis was employed. Quantitative data were collected using a prepaid postal survey, consisting of 17 questions, mailed to 250 (61 per cent) of 410 GPs on…
Descriptors: Interviews, Foreign Countries, Appropriate Technology, Web Sites
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Monrouxe, Lynn V.; Rees, Charlotte E. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2012
Recent investigations into the UK National Health Service revealed doctors' failures to act with compassion and professionalism towards patients. The British media asked questions about what happens to students during their learning that influences such behaviour as doctors. We listened to 200 medical students' narratives of professionalism…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Discourse Analysis, Content Analysis
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Bartholomew, Terence – Youth Studies Australia, 2009
In this research, 300 doctors in Victoria were asked to make decisions about a hypothetical patient's competence and confidentiality. It appears that assumptions embedded in relevant law, the vague nature of existing legal criteria and the diversity in assessment practices all have the potential to act as obstacles to young people's claim to…
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Young Adults, Medical Services, Medical Care Evaluation
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Skeat, J.; Perry, A. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2008
Background: Outcome measurement is important to clinical practice--yet outcome many speech and language therapists find it difficult to apply measures in practice, and not all clinicians and services have been able to implement and/or use outcome measurement successfully. To date there has been little research to explain why implementation is…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Evaluation Utilization, Outcomes of Treatment, Measurement Techniques
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Edwards, N.; Lennox, N.; White, P. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2007
Background: Quality mental health care for adults with an intellectual disability (ID) depends upon the availability of appropriately trained and experienced psychiatrists. There have been few surveys of psychiatrists working with this population. Method: This Australian study obtained psychiatrists' attitudes to and perceptions of the mental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Health Needs
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Langbein, Maxine G. – Journal of School Health, 1979
A vacation provided the author with the opportunity to meet with school nurses in Australia. (MM)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Facilities, Health Programs, Medical Care Evaluation
Azarnoff, Pat, Ed. – 1983
Ten authors' viewpoints about preparing healthy children for possible hospitalization are presented. Selected topics include (1) the fallacy of "preparing" young healthy children for possible hospitalization, (2) parents as the best preparers of young children, (3) preparing young children for unplanned hospital admissions, (4) anxiety…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Problems, Foreign Countries