Showing papers in "Patient Education and Counseling in 2011"

TL;DR: This review found that communication skills training programmes for physicians should include active, practice-oriented strategies and oral presentations on communication skills, modelling, and written information should only be used as supportive strategies.

TL;DR: The coding procedures show how focus group data, obtained in an international multi-centre study can be analysed in a systematic way combining scientific rigour with the richness of data obtainable from qualitative methodologies.

TL;DR: There are varying samples, measures, and designs used to identify those who do or do not seek health information, and future research should look into how health information seeking influences health management.

TL;DR: The generally favourable training outcomes suggest that MI can be used to improve client communication and counselling concerning lifestyle-related issues in general health care, but the results must be interpreted with caution due to inconsistent methodological quality of the studies.

TL;DR: When patients perceive clinicians as empathetic, rating them perfect on the CARE tool, the severity, duration and objective measures (IL-8 and neutrophils) of the common cold significantly change.

TL;DR: The Verona Coding Definitions of Emotional Sequences (VR-CoDES CC) may be used to help clinicians in recognizing or facilitating cues and concerns, thereby improving the recognition of patients' emotional distress, the therapeutic alliance and quality of care for these patients.

TL;DR: OSGs have the potential to produce empowerment outcomes for those who choose to use them and users report a positive reaction to information found online from their health professionals, including a more 'net friendly' attitude amongst health professionals.

TL;DR: Benefits and risks in applying member-check when studying healthcare topics are explored, questioning the way it should be performed.

TL;DR: Students are moderately able to self-assessment performance and are more accurate later in medical school, but are more likely to overestimate on communication-based, standardized patient encounters than objective, knowledge-based performance measures.

TL;DR: Asking these three questions improved information given by family physicians and increased physician facilitation of patient involvement and practice implications can drive evidence-based practice, strengthen patient-physician communication, and improve safety and quality.

TL;DR: The findings of this study showed that self-management programs have small to moderate effects in improving pain and disability at the long-term level, but the medium-term effect for disability is not significant.

TL;DR: It is recommended that a module on listening should lead to a discussion not only about the skill required in listening attentively, but also to the values, beliefs, attitudes, and intentions of physicians who choose to listen to their patients.

TL;DR: The Verona-CoDES-P system permits sequence analysis and a detailed description of how providers handle patient's expressions of emotion, and should be applied to investigate the relationship between provider responses to patients' expression of emotions and outcome variables.

TL;DR: In the 2005 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, a third of obese adults received an obesity diagnosis (28.9%) and approximately a fifth received counseling for weight reduction (17.6%), diet (25.2%), or exercise (20.5%) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A working alliance between physician and patient, characterized by agreement communication on goals and tasks of treatment, along with trust and patient liking of his/her doctor, predicts patient adherence, satisfaction, and quality of life.

TL;DR: Lower patient-physician social concordance was associated with less positive patient perceptions of care and lower positive patient affect, and patient- physiotherapists across multiple social characteristics may have cumulative effects on patient- Physician communication and perceptions of Care.

TL;DR: Questions are raised about how ' patient-centered' current goal setting practices are and whether a 'patient- centered' approach is even possible in inpatient stroke rehabilitation when considering predominant funding and health system models.

TL;DR: Existing evidence supports the implementation of a health information delivery system designed to meet the needs of informal caregivers of older adults with chronic health conditions.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the research on stroke patients and caregivers' educational needs is presented in this article. But, the focus of this review was on the clinical aspects of stroke, prevention, treatment and functional recovery.

TL;DR: A brief Video Doctor intervention can improve exercise and dietary behaviors in pregnant women and can be integrated into prenatal care to assist clinicians with effective diet and exercise counseling.

TL;DR: Utilizing an outpatient-clinic training model developed in the US, it is demonstrated that a 20-h course could be generalized across medical and national cultures, indicating improvement of communication skills among hospital doctors.

TL;DR: The PAI may be useful in helping patients prepare for more effective encounters with their physicians and may be a useful method for activating low-income, racial/ethnic minority patient populations.

TL;DR: Interventions for men with advanced prostate cancer could usefully target the implications of advancing disease and caregiver burden and there is an urgent need for researchers to focus efforts specifically on such men and their families.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review and qualitative synthesis using meta-ethnography was conducted to understand what helps and/or hinders asthma action plan use from the professionals and patients/carers perspective.

TL;DR: This recent research has revealed that these placebo-induced biochemical and cellular changes in a patient's brain are very similar to those induced by drugs.

TL;DR: Patients assigned to the intervention arm of the study were more likely than the controls to choose mastectomy rather than breast-conserving surgery; however, they appeared better informed and clearer about their surgical options than women assign to the control group.

TL;DR: The task of ranking 4 universal health outcomes was well understood, captured what was important when considering trade-offs, and demonstrated content validity, however, test-retest reliability was fair to poor.

TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that primary care providers can be trained to achieve and maintain gains in patient-centered communication, communication skills and discussion of adverse childhood events as root causes of chronic disease.

TL;DR: A systematic process map is proposed for others to consider as they develop web-based, perhaps multimedia, decision support interventions and to examine the future challenges faced by developers.

TL;DR: Patient-centered care was observed more often with family physician caring for healthier, more educated patients, and was associated with lower charges, according to an interactional analysis instrument defined.