Optimizing Communication About Topical Corticosteroids: A Quality Improvement Study [Formula: see text].

Background: Patients are often non-adherent to topical corticosteroids (TCS). This may be in part due to poor communication between patients and dermatologists.

Objectives: This quality improvement (QI) study aims to describe dermatologist-patient communication about TCS treatments and to compare communication before and after the implementation of an educational intervention.

The impact of a patient web communication intervention on reaching treatment suggested guidelines for chronic diseases: A randomized controlled trial.

Objective: Examine the impact of a PACE (Prepare, Ask, Check, Express) inspired web-based communication intervention alone or combined with a workshop on reaching treatment goals for patients suffering from chronic diseases (CDs), compared to usual care.

Methods: Three arm single-blind RCT in community primary care (PC) practices. PC practitioners (n=18) had a CD patient caseload, and practicing >5 years.

Communication and patient participation influencing patient recall of treatment discussions.

Context: Patient recall of treatment information is a key variable towards chronic disease (CD) management. It is unclear what communication and patient participation characteristics predict recall.

Objectives: To assess what aspects of doctor-patient communication predict patient recall of medication information.

[Emotional Memory and Electrocortical Activity in Schizophrenia].

Context Abnormal emotion processing is frequent in schizophrenia and affects social and functional outcome. Past event-related potential (ERP) research investigating processing of affective stimuli in schizophrenia was done mainly with facial expressions and revealed impaired facial emotion recognition in patients relative to control subjects. Experimentations involving fMRI with this group of patients, showed alteration of limbic and frontal regions in response to emotional unpleasant images, compared to neutral stimuli during a memory task.

The impact of a primary care e-communication intervention on the participation of chronic disease patients who had not reached guideline suggested treatment goals.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of two web-based educational approaches on doctor-patient communication. The study focused on chronic disease (CD) patients in a lengthy relationship with their family physician (FP) who had not reached guideline suggested treatment goals (off-target) for their CDs.

Methods: 322 hypertensive, diabetic, or dyslipidemic patients of 18 FPs were randomised into three groups: Usual Care (UC), e-Learning (e-L) and e-Learning+Workshop (e-L+W).

The effects of three mindfulness skills on chocolate cravings.

There is accumulating evidence that mindfulness-based interventions are useful in reducing food cravings. However, existing studies have applied many mindfulness skills together, rendering it unclear which skills are essential and which are unnecessary. Based on recent investigations into the efficacy of individual mindfulness skills at managing cravings, the goal of the present study was to compare the efficacy of two-week mindfulness-based interventions, targeting different combinations of specific mindfulness skills (awareness, acceptance, disidentification), at reducing trait and state chocolate cravings.

Sex differences in memory of emotional images: a behavioral and electrophysiological investigation.

Current research suggests that emotional responses differ between men and women. Sex differences regarding emotional effects on memory have been recently studied through brain imaging techniques. However, the majority of investigations have often neglected to balance the variable of emotional intensity (arousal) across pleasant and unpleasant pictures.