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M Gognalons-Nicolet

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PubMed2005

[From blind knowledge to experiential knowledge].

A postgraduate course in psychosomatic and psychosocial medicine for general practitioners started in 1999 from Marc Archinard advice. It consists of about half the hours required for the "Attestation de formation complémentaire" granted by the Swiss Academy of psychosomatic and psychosocial medicine (AMPP). This article describes the elaboration of a questionnaire assessing the professional competences acquired by the practitioners after the course. As practitioners they valorise knowledge coming from their experiences on patient relationships and group exchanges, own maturational process, delegation process as well as expansion of therapeutic choices.

Academies and Institutes↗
PubMed1999

Social prognostic factors of mortality in a random cohort of Geneva subjects followed up for a period of 12 years.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To analyse the relative risk (RR) of mortality related to social factors independent of health status and occupational category. SETTING: Subjects were Swiss men and women aged 40-65 years. DESIGN: A random sample of 820 people living in Geneva were followed up prospectively between 1984 and 1996. The social, occupational, and health data were gathered at subjects' homes in 1984 using a standardised questionnaire. Information about deaths and the corresponding dates were obtained from updated files of the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics (OFS). Risk of mortality was examined according to a Cox model. MAIN RESULTS: There were several social prognostic factors of mortality with relative risks greater than 3.0 (RR > 3.0) independent of health and occupational status. These factors were: a period of unemployment during life time, the feeling of not demonstrating initiative in the occupational setting, and not having participated in social activities. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that differential mortality determined by occupational status can be explained in part by factors that are characteristic of "life style", social dynamics, occupational context, and ruptures during the course of occupational life.

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PubMed1991

[Evaluation of psychosocial follow-up of acute cases: problems and methods of crisis treatment in psychiatry].

In psychiatry, request to evaluate treatments are increasingly frequent. Based on a Geneva research project dealing with the evaluation of crisis treatment and its follow-up over a two-year period, the authors examine the various steps involved in the evaluation of treatment prescription and follow-up, from the theoretical and methodological points of view.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1991

[Maturescence, a critical phase between ages 40 and 65. Health, illness, aging and social ages].

The recent emergence of a critical phase in life called maturescence, situated between the ages of 40 and 65, is a by-product of social life in industrialized societies. Because it is considered as a crossroads, this phase in life is not connected with any particular chronological age, such as reaching forty or fifty. Rather, it involves the difficulties of aging in society and the oncoming of identity conflicts, all of which must be seen in relation with the specific health-related problems that result from aging.

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PubMed1986

Menopause research: the Korpilampi workshop.

A workshop on menopause research focused on three topics: (1) problems and issues in the definition of menopausal status: (2) problems and issues in cross-cultural research: (3) the contributions which research in the behavioural sciences can make to clinical research and practice. Among the conclusions reached by the workshop was the recommendation that researchers should adopt a standard definition of menopause based on the cessation on menses. Yet, while standard definitions are essential to scientific comparison, it is also important to determine how women decide on their own status, particularly when working cross-culturally.

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