Understanding doctors' attitudes towards self-disclosure of mental ill health.

Background: Understanding of doctors' attitudes towards disclosing their own mental illness has improved but assumptions are still made.

Aims: To investigate doctors' attitudes to disclosing mental illness and the obstacles and enablers to seeking support.

Methods: An anonymous, UK-wide online survey of doctors with and without a history of mental illness.

'Marginalised malignancies': A qualitative synthesis of men's accounts of living with breast cancer.

Rationale: Breast cancer in men is a rare, under-researched illness frequently overlooked within both clinical and third-sector healthcare systems. Increased prevalence and high profile awareness-raising, advocacy and activism around breast cancer in women has led to pervasive feminisation of the disease, prompting a misperception of breast cancer as a women-only illness. This deters men from seeking medical attention, professional and social support, and increases sensitivity to body image concerns.

Fatal relapsing tracheobronchial polychondritis diagnosed at autopsy.

A 31-year-old woman was referred to chest clinic with an 18-month history of cough, breathlessness and weight loss. She had previously been treated unsuccessfully with bronchodilators. In clinic she was found to have vocal hoarseness and harsh, monophonic inspiratory breath sounds.

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a universal parenting skills programme in deprived communities: multicentre randomised controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness and cost utility of a universally provided early years parenting programme.

Design: Multicentre randomised controlled trial with cost-effectiveness analysis.

Setting: Early years centres in four deprived areas of South Wales.

Effects of optimism, social support, fighting spirit, cancer worry and internal health locus of control on positive affect in cancer survivors: a path analysis.

The psychological impact of a cancer diagnosis can extend through treatment, well into cancer survivorship and can be influenced by a range of psychosocial resources. At different stages in this trajectory, optimism is known to affect well-being directly. This study focusing upon the potential to flourish after cancer, investigates the relationship between optimism and positive affect during cancer survivorship together with four possible mediators: social support, fighting spirit, internal health locus of control and cancer worry, all of which have been shown to be important predictors of well-being in cancer patients.