Experiences of guilt and shame in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia: a qualitative interview study.

Objective: To explore patients' experiences of guilt and shame with regard to how they manage familial hypercholesterolemia.

Methods: We interviewed 40 men and women diagnosed with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia. Data were analyzed by systematic text condensation inspired by Giorgi's phenomenological method.

How do patients at risk portray candidates for coronary heart disease? A qualitative interview study.

Objective: To explore how patients at risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) portray candidates for CHD.

Design: Qualitative interview study.

Setting: Norway.

Perceived vulnerability to heart disease in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia: a qualitative interview study.

Purpose: Knowledge about the ways patients perceive their vulnerability to disease is important for communication with patients about risk and preventive health measures. This interview study aimed to explore how patients with a diagnosis of heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia understand and perceive their vulnerability to coronary heart disease.

Methods: We did a qualitative study of 40 patients with familial hypercholesterolemia who were recruited through a lipid clinic in Norway.

The Zero-vision: potential side effects of communicating health perfection and zero risk.

Public health education may have harmful side effects: generate fear, give rise to healthism and contribute to a medical sorting society. To prevent these adverse reactions a new deal for public health communication is presented. It is commended to move public health from omnipotence to moderation, from life style to living conditions, from risk to the bright sides of health, from statistical clone to the holy individual.

Women at risk of coronary heart disease experience barriers to diagnosis and treatment: a qualitative interview study.

Objective: To explore barriers in the health service to diagnosis and treatment experienced by women at increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD).

Design: Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews.

Setting: Norway.

Medicine and the arts in the undergraduate medical curriculum at the University of Oslo Faculty of Medicine, Oslo, Norway.

The authors describe a course titled Medicine and the Arts, established in 1996, that is part of the first semester of the undergraduate medical curriculum at the University of Oslo Faculty of Medicine. The course comprises four two-hour seminars on literature, visual arts, architecture, and music. The core objectives of the course are to demonstrate how art can be a source of personal and professional development, and also how art represents a source of insight into patients' experiences and the social, cultural, and historical context of medical practice.

[Local and global environmental medicine--assessment by Norwegian physicians].

Background: Local and global environmental problems are challenges to our societies and affect human health. This study examines how Norwegian physicians see these problems.

Material And Methods: 1,260 physicians were sent a questionnaire on their knowledge, attitudes and practice related to this subject.