Publications by authors named "Joseph Greer"
The present formative study sought to describe issues relevant to HIV prevention among men who have sex with men (MSM) in South India by surveying 62 MSM outreach workers from three non governmental organizations in Chennai. Although 92% reported having sex with men, only 74% identified as gay and 27% were married. Only half of these men reported having been tested for HIV.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Primary care patients often report medically unexplained symptoms and may disagree with their physicians about the nature of their presenting complaints. The goals of this study were to explore the level of physician-patient agreement on symptom etiology and to identify predictors of disagreement.
Methods: Primary care patients (n = 175) and their physicians rated the extent to which patients' presenting symptoms represented a medical versus a psychological problem.
This cross-sectional retrospective study examined the frequency of positive tests for infectious diseases among 655 patients who were admitted to a state psychiatric hospital from 1997 to 1999. Not all patients who were admitted to the hospital were tested for each disease. Rates of positive tuberculin (20.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Researchers have shown that primary care patients utilize global attribution styles to interpret ambiguous physical symptoms, diminishing the ability of practitioners to recognize psychological disorders. The present study examined the extent to which patients' specific beliefs about their presenting symptoms versus their global symptom attribution styles predict physician recognition of psychological distress and mental health treatment recommendations.
Methods: Participants included primary care patients attending a five-physician medical practice.