Lay theories toward cancer and myocardial infarction: a trans-cultural comparison of Germans and Spaniards.

The objective of this study was a transcultural comparison regarding illness-related causal and control attributes using a survey of healthy Germans in Germany, Spaniards in Spain and Spaniards in Germany. Each group contained 100 persons, matched according to sex, age and education. Germans showed more pronounced internal causal as well as control beliefs while Spaniards in Germany showed fatalistic attribution and Spaniards in Spain placed more emphasis on social aspects.

[Information and participation of patients in psychosomatic rehabilitation. Occurrence and relations to patient satisfaction treatment outcome].

Objective: Main goal was to assess the wish for participation of patients in psychosomatic rehabilitation and their perception of medical information and own treatment involvement. Further, the influence of these constructs on patient satisfaction was investigated.

Methods: 276 patients were included in a cross-sectional survey at the end of their inpatient stay.

[Goals, goal attainment, and patient satisfaction in psychosomatic rehabilitation].

Objectives: The study assesses patient satisfaction and investigates the correlation between patient satisfaction and the setting and attainment of goals.

Methods: Cross-sectional questionnaire-based assessment data were provided anonymously by 276 patients at the end of their inpatient stay in psychosomatic rehabilitation. Patient satisfaction as well as sociodemographic, disease-related, and outcome parameters including rehabilitation goals were assessed at the beginning of rehabilitation and their attainment at the end of rehabilitation.

Health-related quality of life, psychosocial strains, and coping in parents of children with chronic renal failure.

Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in parents of children suffering from renal disease is often diminished by the illness burden experienced in daily life and by unfavorable ways of coping. Our aim was to examine the relationship between psychosocial strains perceived by parents, their ways of coping, and HRQOL. In an anonymous cross-sectional study, parents completed a questionnaire concerning psychosocial strains, coping strategies, and HRQOL, as well as sociodemographic and illness parameters.

[Lay theories regarding myocardial infarction in a transcultural comparison].

Culturally influenced lay theories about myocardial infarction which exist in healthy individuals have an impact on treatment compliance. However, empirical data on the subject is rare. Using healthy subjects, a transcultural survey comparing three different ethnic groups was conducted.

Validation of the German version of the Chronic Liver Disease Questionnaire.

Objective: The Chronic Liver Disease Questionnaire is an instrument for the assessment of health-related quality of life in patients with chronic liver diseases. So far it has not been validated for German speaking countries.

Methods: Two hundred and three consecutive patients with chronic liver diseases (age, 52.

[Chronic diseases, psychological distress and coping -- challenges for psychosocial care in medicine].

Due to the increase of chronic diseases within the last decades the need and demand for psychosocial treatment in medicine has been realized. This review focuses on the psychosocial aspects of chronic diseases and discusses selected topics of medical and rehabilitation psychology. Recent developments in quantitative and qualitative methods have allowed the systematic analysis of psychosocial distress and coping with chronic disease as well as the consequences on social relationships.

[Nursing personnel in inpatient rehabilitation--work satisfaction, motivation for interdisciplinary cooperation and for achieving psychosocial competence].

106 nurses from eleven rehabilitation clinics were questioned by means of an anonymous clinical questionnaire on the issues of job satisfaction, interdisciplinary cooperation, and expectations towards future psychosocial staff training (main fields of the participants: orthopaedics, cardiology, dermatology and neurology). Two thirds were altogether satisfied with their jobs, primarily with regard to their relationships with the patients and the colleague nurses (76%), to some extent less so, however, with the doctors (63%). More than 90% expected psychosocial service to deliver feedback for the team and close interdisciplinary communication.