Patient education and counseling
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To gain insight about Department of Defense providers' and health care beneficiaries' opinions regarding provider-patient communication of health care for post-deployment health concerns. ⋯ The quality of information exchanged and of the interpersonal relationship impact medical decision making, particularly in occupational health settings such as the military. Attention to these issues may improve patient outcomes including satisfaction, adherence, trust, health status, and quality of life.
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To determine the clinical utility and acceptability of a brief CBT psycho-educational course delivered in an NHS psychotherapy service. ⋯ Large group psycho-educational interventions for anxiety disorders could be increasingly used as a method of delivering low intensity treatments within a stepped care model of the treatment of anxiety disorders. The intervention is relatively simple to deliver and potentially could be delivered by primary care clinicians.
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Patients increasingly use the Internet for medical information. For doctor-patient communication it is important to gain insight into the use and impact of medical Internet searches of patients. This study aims to evaluate patients' use of the Internet for information about their pain problem. ⋯ Physicians should inquire about patients' use of various sources of information (such as the Internet) and offer to clarify any questions or concerns that arise from that use.
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It is essential to train health care providers to deliver care sensitive to the needs of diverse individuals with varying degrees of health literacy. We aimed to evaluate an innovative, theory-based, educational intervention involving social marketing and health literacy. ⋯ Health care providers can be taught educational principles and skills involved in developing effective patient education materials. These skills may improve providers' comfort with direct patient interaction.
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Comparative Study
Disentangling physician sex and physician communication style: their effects on patient satisfaction in a virtual medical visit.
The present study aimed to investigate the effect of physician sex and physician communication style on patient satisfaction. In real medical visits, physician sex and physician communication style are confounded variables. By using the virtual medical visit paradigm, we were able to disentangle the two variables and study their separate and/or joint effects on patient satisfaction. ⋯ Physician communication training cannot be one size fits all. Rather female and male physicians should obtain different training and they need to be made aware of the fact that female and male patients harbor different expectations toward them.