Sentence examples for lay labels from inspiring English sources

For all vignettes, generic lay labels were not associated with stigma, but also rarely had a counter stigma effect.

In order to validate the category assignment of these disorders, a Lexis Nexis search was conducted sampling from 1997 and 2007 for frequency of use of both the medial and lay labels for each disorder in popular news media (defined as print media publicly available in North America).

Given that it is difficult to consider male pattern baldness and a heart attack as comparable in severity, it is possible that the difference between medicalese and lay labels is only apparent in disorders that are not considered to be very serious.

Mr. Lay labels criticisms of that set-up as 20-20 hindsight, created only because the world now knows that Mr. Fastow used the vehicles to manipulate Enron's earnings and loot the company, all without his knowledge, Mr. Lay said.

For estimates of prevalence, participants considered the medicalese label to be more prevalent than the lay label (mean for medicalese label = 74.9, SE = 12.7, mean for the lay label = 102.6, SE = 14.9, F (1,49) = 13.93, p<0.001).

For ratings of disease representativeness, participants considered the medicalese label to be more representative of a disease than the lay label (mean for medicalese label = 2.50, SE = .07, mean for the lay label = 2.25, SE = .08, F (1,49) = 9.87, p<0.005).

Participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups, where each participant was asked to rate either the medicalese or lay label for a disorder.

This study demonstrates that a medical label for a recently medicalized disorder results in perceptions of increased severity, increased disease representativeness and lower prevalence compared to the same disorder presented in its synonymous, lay label.

When examining the recently medicalized disorders in print media, we see a six-fold increase in the ratio of medicalese to lay labeling, where we see only a 1.2 fold increase in the same ratio for recognized medical disorders.

If any observations are to be made regarding the established medical conditions, it is that the lay label is seen as more serious than the medicalese, indicating a pattern opposite to that previously seen in the literature [19].

For the established medical disorders, there was no significant difference between the ratings assigned to the medicalese and lay name for disease representativeness (mean for medicalese label = 2.51, SE = .89, mean for lay label = 2.67, SE = .09 on a four point scale, F (1,49) = 3.33, p = .08, see Figure 1, center panel).