Weinman, John, Yusuf, Gibran, Berks, Robert, Rayner, Sam, Petrie, Keith J
Abstract Background Older studies have shown that patients often do not understand the terms used by doctors and many do not even have a rudimentary understanding of anatomy. The present study was...
Worries about modernity predict symptom complaints after environmental pesticide spraying (2005)
Petrie, Keith J., Broadbent, Elizabeth A., Kley, Nadine, Moss-Morris, Rona, Horne, Rob, Rief, Winfried
Objective: Concerns about environmental and technological changes affecting health have been shown to be associated with symptom reports in cross-sectional studies. We aimed to investigate how...
The Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) (2002)
Moss-Morris, Rona, Weinman, John, Petrie, Keith J., Horne, Robert, Cameron, Linda D., Buick, Deanna
This paper presents a revised version of the Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R), a recently developed and widely used quantitative measure of the five components of illness representations in...
Scientific letter. Symptom expectations and delay in acute myocardial infarction patients (2001)
Perry, Kate, Petrie, Keith J., Ellis, Chris J., Horne, Robert, Moss-Morris, Rona
Petrie, Keith J., Sivertsen, Borge, Hysing, Mari, Broadbent, Elizabeth, Moss-Morris, Rona, Eriksen, Hege R., ...
Objective: There is now greater public concern about how features of modern life pose threats to personal health. In two studies, we investigated the relationship between individuals' worries about...
Redefining medical students' disease to reduce morbidity (2001)
Moss-Morris, Rona, Petrie, Keith J.
Objectives: to gain a clearer conceptual understanding of medical students' disease and its impact on students, by separating the process of thinking that one may have a particular illness under...
Discriminating between chronic fatigue syndrome and depression: a cognitive analysis (2001)
Moss-Morris, Rona, Petrie, Keith J.
Background: chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and depression share a number of common symptoms and the majority of CFS patients meet lifetime criteria for depression. While cognitive factors seem key to...
Photographic memory, money, and liposuction: survey of medical students' wish lists
Petrie, Keith J, White, Graham R, Cameron, Linda D, Collins, John P
Photographic memory, money, and liposuction: survey of medical students' wish lists
Petrie, Keith J, White, Graham R, Cameron, Linda D, Collins, John P
Petrie, Keith J, Müller, Jan Tobias, Schirmbeck, Frederike, Donkin, Liesje, Broadbent, Elizabeth, Ellis, Christopher J, ...
Objective To investigate whether providing information about normal findings before a diagnostic test improves patients' reassurance and reduces anxiety about symptoms.