Enhancing concentration, mood and memory in healthy individuals:: An empirical study of attitudes among general practitioners and the general population
Enhancing concentration, mood and memory in healthy individuals:: An empirical study of attitudes among general practitioners and the general population
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DOI：
10.1177/1403494807087558
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发表时间：
2008-07-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Lynoe, Niels
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作者：
Bergstrom, Lena Strand;Lynoe, Niels
目的：研究普通公众和全科医生（GP）对提高健康个体注意力、情绪和记忆力的态度。研究方法：2006年，从斯德哥尔摩随机抽取1000人和300名全科医生，发送了一份由小插曲组成的问卷，其中包括三个涉及提高注意力、情绪和记忆力的案例。我们询问了健康人为了他人的利益和自己的利益而使用药品的情况;我们还询问了社会是否应该支付费用。最后，我们询问了通过使用自然疗法来增强健康人的注意力，情绪和记忆力。结果：52%的公众和39%的全科医生做出了回应。虽然使用自然疗法被认为是相当可以接受的，但两组中的大多数人都对使用药物来提高健康个体的注意力、情绪和记忆力持否定态度。一般公众往往没有全科医生那么消极。有一个显着的差异提供增强的原因，利他主义的原因似乎比利己主义的更容易接受。对于这两组人来说，增强情绪比增强记忆更有争议。结论：尽管辍学率很高，但研究表明，通过自然疗法提高不同人的能力是公众可以接受的，而这两个群体中只有少数人倾向于允许使用药物。当比较的利己主义的原因，利他主义的一个提高浓度，情绪和记忆力的药物似乎会影响公众的倾向，以支持处方，这也是在全科医生的情况下，但只有关于情绪增强。
Aim: To study attitudes towards enhancing concentration, mood and memory in healthy individuals among the general public and general practitioners (GPs). Methods: A questionnaire consisting of vignettes including three cases dealing with enhancement of concentration, mood and memory was sent during 2006 to 1000 randomly selected people from Stockholm and 300 GPs. We asked about the use of pharmaceuticals for healthy individuals for the benefit of others and the benefit to oneself; we also asked whether or not society should pay the cost. Finally, we asked about enhancement of healthy people's concentration, mood and memory through the use of natural remedies. Results: Fifty-two per cent of the general public and 39% of the GPs responded. While the use of natural remedies was perceived as fairly acceptable, majorities in both groups were negative with regard to the use of pharmaceuticals to enhance concentration, mood and memory in a healthy individual. The general public tended to be less negative than the GPs. There was a significant difference between the reasons for providing enhancement; altruistic reasons seem to be more acceptable than egoistic ones. For both groups, enhancing mood was more controversial than enhancing memory. Conclusions: Despite the large dropout rate, the study indicates that enhancement by means of natural remedies of different human capacities is acceptable to the general public, while only small minorities of both groups are inclined to allow the use of pharmaceuticals. When compared to the egoistic reason, the altruistic one for enhancing concentration, mood and memory with pharmaceuticals seems to influence the general public's inclination to support prescriptions; this was also the case among the GPs, but only as regards mood enhancement.