Formative prep Flashcards
What factors might increase the chance of someone changing their lifestyle?
- You think the advantages of change outweigh the disadvantages
- You anticipate a positive response from others
- Social pressure
- Perceive new behaviour to be consistent with your self image
- You believe you can do it in certain circumstances
What are the possible benefits of adopting the mutual participation style of doctor patient relationship?
- Greater feeling of autonomy
- greater responsibility
- more satisfied
- increase compliance
Name the 3 types of doctor patient relationship described by Szasz and Hollender?
- Mutual participation
- Authoritarian or paternalistic
- Guidance/ coop
What are content skills?
What doctors communicate -the substance of their questions and responses, the information they gather and give
What are perceptual skills?
What they are thinking and feeling-their own internal decision
What are process skills?
How they do it–
the way doctors communicate with patients
The way the structure and organise communication
What actions can the government take to promote health in the population as a whole?
- Legislation/
- Improvemnts in housing
- Provision of health education
- health and safety laws
- Traffic and transport legislation
What is the definition of health?
Complete physical ,mental and social well being and not mere the absence of disease or infirmity?
What factors can influence beliefs about health?
- Age
- Social class
- Gender
- Culture
What should safety netting advice include?
- Advise the patient of the expected course of the illness/recovery
- Advise of symptoms indicating deterioration
- Advise who to contact if patient deteriorates
How can you minimise risk? (Neighbour)
- Summarise and verbally check that reason for attendance is clear
- Handover to patient
- Deal with housekeeping
What are the four ethical principles?
- Autonomy
- Justice
- Beneficence
- Non-Maleficence
Give 5 exapmples of when computers are used in general practice?
- store appointments
- Making appointments
- Patient records
- Support perscribing
- public health info
What is a hazard?
Something with potential to cause harm
What is a risk?
Likelihood of harm occuring
