Understanding what influences organ donation
By Dr Lee Shepherd, Northumbria University, UK and Professor Ronan E. O’Carroll, University of Stirling, UK and Professor Eamonn Ferguson, University of […]
Category: Communication
Effective risk communication is about more than behaviour change: let’s talk about personal risk appraisals
By Victoria Woof and David French, Manchester Centre for Health Psychology, University of Manchester, UK Traditionally in medicine and health psychology, healthcare […]
Lost (and found) in translation: Effective communication with patients
By Zuzana Dankulincova, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Slovakia While most researchers are aware that disseminating study results is part of their ethical […]
Helping patients manage their condition: Illness representations matter
By Yael Benyamini, Tel Aviv University, Israel and Evangelos C. Karademas, University of Crete, Greece Anna and Mary are both healthy 45-year-old […]
How to support patients to lose weight and better manage their type 2 diabetes
By Leah Avery, Teesside University, UK. Type 2 diabetes was previously considered a progressive condition, with an inevitable need for insulin therapy, […]
Teaching practitioners Healthy Conversation Skills
By Wendy Lawrence, University of Southampton The main causes of death and disease in society today are influenced by our lifestyle choices, […]
Insights from behavioural science for the COVID-19 pandemic
By Shane Timmons, Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland Governments worldwide have mobilised to try to control the spread of the novel […]
Are your clients being defensive? If so, self-affirmation may help.
Peter Harris and Ian Hadden, The Self-Affirmation Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK Have you ever been reluctant to […]
Raising weight in a consultation
By Jane Ogden, University of Surrey, UK Weight is a tricky problem to talk about in a consultation. Some patients may be […]
Patient talk: What the doctor clearly says, and the patient clearly does not understand
By Anne Marie Plass, University Medical Center of Göttingen, Germany Sometime ago a dermatologist who works as a psoriasis (a chronic skin […]
