It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain high response rates in physicians' mail surveys.
In 1983-84, we tested the effectiveness of two techniques among 604 Quebec physicians …

… Maheux has a research career award from the FRSQ and Dr. Béland is a National Health
Scholar, Health and Welfare, Canada. Presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the North …

Background and objectives The training of caring physicians represents an important goal of
medical education. Little is known however, on whether medical faculty constitute good role …

A questionnaire on the use of television was administered to the parents of 387 children
aged between 3 and 10 years. All families owned at least one television set and 57.6% of …

BACKGROUND: In Canada several guidelines have been published for the screening of
lifestyle health risks during general medical examinations. The authors sought to examine the …

OBJECTIVES: This study examined physicians' evaluation of sexual health risks during a
general medical examination and sexually transmitted disease (STD) counseling during …

BACKGROUND: The acquisition and nurturing of humanistic skills and attitudes constitute
an important aim of medical education. In order to assess how conducive the physician-…

… Maheux and Lessard were Clinical Research Officers at the SPC Dr. Reed is currently Medical
Epidemiologist, California State … Lessard, Maheux and Mr. Lambert are currently Ph.D. …

PURPOSE. To survey recently trained family physicians about their practices and perceptions
regarding sexual history taking, drug-use history taking, and safe-sex counseling. …

… on this issue than school B freshmen and this pattern held up to graduation where one noted
again that overall school C graduates were more liberal than school B graduates. Contrary …