Showing papers in "Patient Education and Counseling in 2013"

TL;DR: Motivational Interviewing was robust across moderators such as delivery location and patient characteristics, and appears efficacious when delivered in brief consultations and could be used for a wide range of behavioral issues in health care.

TL;DR: Four broad questions that authors could ask themselves in drafting papers for PEC, knowing that these are the questions that the editors ask about all submissions – whether qualitative or quantitative, are described.

TL;DR: Disconcordance in patients' and professionals' motives and use of social media in health care is indicated and future studies on social media use in health health care should not disregard participants' underlying motives, barriers and expectations regarding the (non)use of social social media.

TL;DR: It is argued that the concepts are distinct, both conceptually and empirically, and the importance of carefully conceptualizing both approaches, the implications for their measurement and the design of health interventions are discussed.

TL;DR: Results indicated companions regularly attended consultations, were frequently perceived as helpful, and assumed a variety of roles, but their involvement often raised challenges, and preliminary strategies for health professionals are proposed.

TL;DR: Using Option Grids made options more visible and clinicians found it easier to undertake shared decision making when these tools were available, and reported a 'handover' effect, where patient involvement in decision making was enhanced.

TL;DR: The key finding of this study is that developing a brief patient-reported measure of shared decision making requires a move away from terms such as 'decisions', 'options' and 'preferences', which act as barriers to research and implementation.

TL;DR: Interventions that focus on specific self-care behaviors may be more effective than general educational programs and changes in some health care systems and national policies are needed to support patients with heart failure to increase theirSelf-care behavior.

TL;DR: Challenges in the study of how clinician-patient communication contributes to a patient's health are examined, and researchers must critically reflect on the assumptions they are making about communication process and choose measures consistent with those assumptions.

TL;DR: It is contended that these skills are integral to medical practice, consistent with core competencies mandated by the ACGME/RCPSC, and difficult to teach and future research must explore sequelae of training on actual clinical performance.

TL;DR: A brief measure relating to different health literacy competencies, beyond functional literacy skills, was developed and piloted, encompassing functional, communicative and critical health literacy.

TL;DR: This synthesis suggests that emotional support is particularly valued when delivered under conditions that do not merely reproduce biomedical hierarchies of power, and those developing and implementing peer support interventions need to be sensitive to their potential negative effects.

TL;DR: The Health Professions Core Communication Curriculum can be used as a guide for teaching communication inter- and multi-professionally in undergraduate education in health care and can serve for curriculum development and support the goals of the Bologna process.

TL;DR: Automated health intervention software designed for efficient re-use is effective at changing health behavior and can be designed to facilitate translation and adaptation across multiple behaviors.

TL;DR: Cancer patients' information needs decrease yet remain high over time, and gender (women), age (younger), race (African American), education (lesser), and marital status (married) were significantly associated with higher information needs over time.

TL;DR: Although widely used, Observer OPTION did not give sufficient attention to preference elicitation and integration, and included items that were not specific to a core construct of shared decision making, so a shorter, more focused measure is proposed.

TL;DR: The authors systematically reflect on the current evidence of patient-specific determinants of success of self-management and argument the urge for increased scientific efforts to establish tailored self- management in patients with chronic disease.

TL;DR: Patients' reports of apology and disclosure when they believe something has gone wrong in their care suggest that clinicians' responses continue to fall short of expectations, and healthcare systems need to support clinicians throughout the disclosure process.

TL;DR: To identify relational issues involved in working with interpreters in healthcare settings and to make recommendations for future research, a systematic literature search in French and English was conducted.

TL;DR: The HeLMS has acceptable psychometric properties and assesses a range of health literacy constructs important to patients when seeking, understanding and using health information within the healthcare system.

TL;DR: Identifying a scientific BPS model in each patient with an agreed-upon, evidence-based patient-centered interviewing method can produce a quantum leap ahead in both research and teaching.

TL;DR: Providers should make dietary and physical activity advice in pregnancy more clear and individualized and offer such guidance multiple times throughout pregnancy.

TL;DR: Surgeons can enhance their communication skills, particularly in areas of relative deficiency, which can be adapted to surgical training and ultimately lead to improved outcomes and satisfaction with care.

TL;DR: Communication patterns seem to explain the role of ethnic concordance for continuance in care, and improve intercultural communication in cross cultural encounters appears significant for retaining minorities in care.

TL;DR: The study provides strong indication for how a personal robot can help children to improve health literacy in an enjoyable way and establish a good foundation for further development and testing in a larger study.

TL;DR: Signs of marked variation in population, setting, measurement of social support and definition of outcome are found, limiting the methodological validity of research.

TL;DR: A mobile phone-based diabetes program affected self-management through multiple behavioral constructs including health beliefs, self-efficacy, and social support, including social support among African-Americans.

TL;DR: "Team interaction" should be considered as an important predictor of process and patient-centered outcome characteristics and can be used to derive measures as well as interventions to optimize the organization of participatory care within teams.

TL;DR: In the efforts to move beyond traditional paternalism, patient experiential evidence suggests the necessity of a careful balance between standardized approaches and respect for diversities in shared decision-making.

TL;DR: SDM cannot be understood in isolation, and future SDM research should reflect the influence that the broader communicative and relational contexts have on decisions.