Comparative studies from other countries would enable cross-national comparisons of attitudes and perceptions of advice and drinking during pregnancy.
It seems to us that such judgment should be made by parents on a personal basis for their own children and that communication of recommendations should take account of the above findings on perception of precautionary advice.
to explore women's perceptions of conflicting advice around breast feeding from formal support networks, specifically health professionals involved in postnatal support.
Therefore, the possible influence of health professionals' weight on the women's perception of the obesity advice should be examined [ 43].
The majority of participants may have preferred a doctor to approach them when seeking consent on behalf of another because of the perception that advice and information from doctors is more reliable or more accurate.
Determinants of non-compliance with additional HZ vaccination were: perceived lack of recommendation by the GP, unwillingness to comply with the doctor's advice, perception of low risk of contracting HZ, perception of short pain duration of HZ and the opinion that vaccinations weaken one's natural defenses [ 8].
Determinants of non-compliance with HZ vaccination included the perceived lack of recommendation by the GP, unwillingness to comply with the doctor's advice, perception of low risk for contracting HZ, perception of a short pain duration for HZ and the opinion that vaccinations weaken natural immunity [ 38].
In our study, factors such as inadequate development of interpersonal skills, perception of respect, compliance with advice, personality traits and communication gaps were more commonly reported by nurses than by doctors as having an effect on nurses-doctors working relationships, although these did not reach statistical significance.
Vaccination services selected, through the immunization registries, a sample of unvaccinated girls born in 1997 or 1998 and posted to their families a 23-items questionnaire inquiring barriers to vaccination, HPV knowledge, source of information on HPV, perception of risk of contracting HPV, advice from consulted health professionals on HPV vaccination.
