Engaging patients and families in the development and evaluation of pain treatment plans may improve perceptions of pain management and hospital experiences.
However, familiarity may improve perceptions only if a priori apprehensions are disproved by experience.
Given that QoL and job satisfaction are related [ 46], interventions that optimally target QoL may also improve perceptions of job satisfaction.
Each tone has a harmonic structure of overtones, and preserving this structure (as with Smt mapping) may improve melody perception.
I present an alternative, or complimentary, hypothesis that synchronization of group movements may improve hearing perception.
Ensuring adequate exposure to fellows on general medicine rotations may improve the perception of and applications to a subspecialty.
I present an alternative, or complimentary, hypothesis that synchronization of group movements and some other little understood behavior may improve hearing perception.
The Open Door intervention may improve the perception of acceptability, availability, and accessibility of mental health care by reducing psychologic barriers, providing education about care, and managing the resignation associated with symptoms of depression among community-dwelling depressed elders.
A number of patients would believe that they need to have a bowel movement every day; counselling on simple lifestyle changes may improve their perception of bowel regularity and a diary log reporting on stool pattern and consistency may be helpful as well [ 11].
While health education around pregnancy and childbirth may improve knowledge, perception and valuation of health facility delivery, this will need to be accompanied by improvement of the experience, responsiveness and care for women during delivery at health facilities alongside addressing other barriers if this is to translate into seeking and using health facilities for childbirth.
