Primary Care Consultations About Medically Unexplained Symptoms: How Do Patients Indicate What They Want?

Somatoform disorders and causal attributions in patients with suspected allergies: Do somatic causal attributions matter?

“…VIT patients, who had an established diagnosis of hymenoptera venom allergy, exhibited a predominantly somatic attribution style. These findings are consistent with recent qualitative research suggesting that SFD patients do incorporate psychosocial factors in their explanations for their symptoms when they are encouraged to do so (Hiller et al, 2010;Peters et al, 2009;Salmon et al, 2004Salmon et al, , 2009). Furthermore, both in the free response task and on the IPQ-R, the majority of work-up patients (SFD, NoSFD) endorsed multiple illness attributions, including psychosocial ones.…”

“…While some studies support the notion of a tendency towards somatic illness attributions among SFD patients (Kirmayer & Robbins, 1996;MacLeod et al, 1998;MossMorris & Petrie, 2001;Nimnuan et al, 2001;Rief et al, 2004), more recent studies and reviews (Aiarzaguena et al, 2008;Goldbeck & Bundschuh, 2007;Hiller et al, 2010;Kirmayer et al, 2004;Martin et al, 2007a;Nikendei et al, 2009;Rief & Broadbent, 2007;Risør, 2009;Schröter et al, 2004) and, in particular, qualitative studies on doctor-patient interaction Salmon et al, 2004Salmon et al, , 2009) present more of a mixed picture, with SFD patients being open to both somatic and psychosocial explanations of their symptoms.…”

Communicating good care: A qualitative study of what people with urological cancer value in interactions with health care providers

“…impact on their feeling cared for and respected (Burkitt-Wright et al, 2004;Entwistle et al, 2008;Epstein, 2006;Quirk et al, 2008;Salmon et al, 2009;Thom and Campbell, 1997;Ziebland et al, 2010). Relational communication has been described in the literature as "those identifiable verbal and nonverbal behaviours that carry message value about the type of relationship the communicators share" Step et al, 2009).…”

Common mental health problems in immigrants and refugees: general approach in primary care

“…64,114 There is limited but emerging evidence that information about associated psychological distress and social predicaments can be elicited by enquiring about the effect of the physical symptoms or other presenting concerns on activities of daily living, stressors, social supports, functioning in work and family, or community contexts. 113,[115][116][117][118] Use of multiple sources of help is common among migrants, who may consult traditional forms of healing as well as biomedical practitioners. 119 In urban settings, patients make use of treatments from many traditions in addition to those related to their own cultural background or geographic region of origin.…”