OBJECTIVE To explore patient's perspectives and expectations from physicians with respect to breaking of bad news. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was carried out in the Community Health Centre of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Pakistan. All consenting individuals from 18 to 60 years of age were interviewed on the basis of a structured, pre-tested questionnaire. RESULTS The response ...

This study characterizes the prosodic structure of the TV news speaking style in Brazil and compares it to the speech of interview subjects on a television talk show. Fifteen distinct metrics, designed to characterize both temporal and melodic characteristics of speech, were evaluated on the two speaking styles. The results of the analysis show that the TV news speaking style is characterized b...

This paper aimed to know and discuss a group of parents of Down syndrome children reactions and feelings and the impact of the news and diagnostic. Four couples whose children received the diagnostic of Down syndrome participated in this research. Data were collected through a semi-structured interview and the results were qualitatively analyzed, using categories. Results indicated that all fou...

Objectives: This study was done to explore the experiences of physicians in India about being the messengers of bad news and management of psychosocial burdens associated with such consultations. Methods: Narrative data was collected from 27 physicians working in four teaching hospitals, using a semi-structured interview schedule. Constant comparison analytic procedures were used to examine phy...

Breaking bad news is one of the most burdensome tasks physicians face in their everyday practice. It becomes even more challenging in the context of HIV+ patients because of stigma and discrimination. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the quality of giving HIV seroconversion news according to SPIKES protocol. Numbers of 154 consecutive HIV+ patients from Imam Khomeini Hospital testing...

The 2005 Danny Lewin Prize for the best student paper at STOC was awarded to Vladimir Trifonov, of the University of Texas at Austin, for his paper “An O(logn log log n) Space Algorithm for Undirected st-Connectivity” [1]. Hal Gabow recently started the tradition of interviewing the Danny Lewin Prize winner and publishing the interview in SIGACT News. (An interview with the 2003 winner Tom Haye...

While governments and academic institutions urge researchers to engage with news media, traditional academic values of public disengagement have inhibited many from giving high priority to media activity. In this interview-based study, the authors report on the views about news media engagement and strategies used by 36 peer-voted leading Australian public health researchers in 6 fields. The au...

Purpose: News media play an important role in attitude towards various issues including hijab and hijab discovery. As a result, the purpose of this research was comparative review of hijab discovery news coverage in news media. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was quantitative. The research population was the hijab discovery news in ...

According to the concepts of Large-Scale Concept Ontology for Multimedia (LSCOM) and requirement of the 4th task in the 2006 TRECVID, i.e., rushes exploitation, the “interview” concept is an important semantic concept for rushes content analysis. The paper presents the shot-level “interview” concept detection method. Face detection and audio classification are implemented to detect “face” and “...

breaking bad news is one of the most burdensome tasks physicians face in their everyday practice. it becomes even more challenging in the context of hiv + patients because of stigma and discrimination. the aim of the current study is to evaluate the quality of giving hiv seroconversion news according to spikes protocol. numbers of 154 consecutive hiv + patients from imam khomeini hospital testi...