BACKGROUND The top 3% of frequent attendance in primary care is associated with 15% of all appointments in primary care, a fivefold increase in hospital expenditure, and more mental disorder and functional somatic symptoms compared to normal attendance. Although often temporary if these rates of attendance last more than two years, they may become persistent (persistent frequent or regular atte...

AIMS To study the reasons for attendance behaviour from the patient viewpoint at a young adult diabetes outpatient clinic. METHODS Attendance rates for 231 clinic appointments over 19 months for 102 patients were calculated. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 17 of the 102. The interviews encouraged participants to describe routines, thoughts and feelings aro...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to investigate the social validity of cognitive-behavioural parent training (CBPT) delivered in two formats to parents who have children with hyperkinetic disorder (HKD) with and without medication. DESIGN Compared individual with group treatment as part of a multicentre randomized controlled trial. METHOD Obtained a broad range of evaluations and ...

BACKGROUND High participation rates are an essential component of an effective screening programme and many approaches were introduced as being successful for enhancing compliance to screening guidelines. The aim of this study was to evaluate to which extent a personal invitation by mail increases the rate of attendance in a cervical cancer screening programme in a primary health care centre. ...

The "conventional wisdom" is that grades are related to class attendance, i.e., students who attend classes more frequently obtain better grades and class attendance dramatically contributes to enhanced learning. However, the influence of sex (female vs. male) on this relationship is understudied. Furthermore, there have been several studies examining the impact of attendance on course grades t...

INTRODUCTION Patients' non-attendance is a significant problem in modern healthcare. Non-attendance delays treatment, reduces efficiency and increases healthcare costs. For several years, the introduction of financial incentives such as a non-attendance fee has been discussed in Denmark. Set in the context of a tax-financed, free-for-all healthcare system, the political hesitance to introduce f...

Objective Evaluations of lifestyle modification interventions (LMIs), modeled after the DPP, have repeatedly shown a dose-response relationship between session attendance and weight loss. Despite this, not all participants “average” loss experiences. Nearly one-third LMI experienced unexpected, paradoxical outcomes (i.e., high with little loss, low clinically significant loss). Paradoxical weig...

IMPORTANCE Student attendance is thought to be an important factor in the academic performance of medical students, in addition to having important regulatory, policy, and financial implications for medical educators. However, this relationship has not been well evaluated within clinical learning environments. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between student attendance and academic perf...

BACKGROUND Non-attendance results in administrative problems and disruption in patient care. Several interventions have been used to reduce non-attendance, with varying degree of success. A relatively new intervention, text messaging, has been shown to be as effective as telephone reminders in reducing non-attendance. However, no study has looked specifically at using text messaging reminders t...

OBJECTIVE To determine the association between patient and referring practice characteristics and attendance and completion at a specialist health service weight management service (WMS). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Regional specialist WMS located in the West of Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 9677 adults with obesity referred between 2012 and 2014; 3250 attending service and 2252 comple...