[Qualitative and collaborative research with cancer patients. Experience narratives of treatments for peritoneal carcinomatosis].

Unlabelled: This CORCAN study is concerned with the way patients hospitalised for peritoneal carcinosis perceive surgical treatment and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC).

Objectives: (1) To identify and analyse, using concepts of social representation and accounts of the illness, characteristics of the way this treatment is experienced; (2) to inform doctors and healthcare workers about patients' representations, with a view to adjusting the treatment, the care and the information given to patients.

Methodology: Fifty-eight directive and nondirective interviews were conducted longitudinally with 21 patients (13 women and 7 men) hospitalised for treatment by cell killing and HIPEC.

Patient and professional attitudes towards research in general practice: the RepR qualitative study.

Background: Since the 1990s, professional institutions worldwide have emphasised the need to develop research in general practice to improve the health of the population. The recent creation of professorships in general practice in French Universities should foster research in this field. Our aim was to explore the views of patients and relevant professionals on research in general practice.

When the group practice breaks up: a qualitative study.

Background: Group practices are increasingly common for primary care physicians worldwide. Although breakups are likely to happen frequently within group practices, their process has not been studied to date. The aims of this study were therefore to explore the reasons for breakups of group practices of general practitioners and to describe the associated feelings.

[Social representations of vaccination among patients and general practitioners: a study based on hierarchized evocation].

In France, there is a discrepancy between perceptions and practices related to vaccination, the causes of which are poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to examine and compare patients' and physicians' social representations of vaccination. A qualitative study based on hierarchized evocation was conducted on a sample of 30 patients and 30 general practitioners.