Our aim was to identify reassuring practices that are considered useful by GPs and why as a starting point in the exploration of possible effective reassurance.
However, 44.4% to 52.0% identified the need for reassurance and support.
While women who identified a need for reassurance and support were, in the main, able to get it, women who identified a need for help with an emotional or mental health problem reported much less success in obtaining assistance.
In recent reviews outlining the process of cancer genetic counselling (Kelly, 1999; Peters et al, 1999; Stopfer, 2000), the provision of emotional support and reassurance was identified as an important role for genetic counsellors.
And I can identify with the reassurance you have felt and received when you joined your church four years ago.
Snowball sampling, with multiple initiation points to reduce selection bias, was necessary to locate and identify participants, provide reassurance and break down barriers.
In addition, patient views on the RADT relating to future GP attendance, antibiotic expectation and reassurance were also identified.
There is much debate surrounding prenatal invasive testing as a means of reassurance for women identified as being at risk of carrying a fetus affected by a chromosomal or structural abnormality.
Parents' perceived vulnerability of children to health threats, increase their desire to remove the risk of such threats, and seeking consultations for reassurance were also identified in the systematic review by Lucas and colleagues [ 16] – all of which influence clinician antibiotic prescribing.
"We had already implemented enhancements to our investment advice procedures, which provide reassurance that the past failings identified by the FSA will not be repeated".
