Patient education and counseling
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This study aimed to describe mental healthcare providers' attitudes about tobacco use, their personal smoking status, their confidence in offering smoking cessation support to clients living with severe mental illness, and the extent to which they incorporated smoking cessation interventions into their practice. The study also aimed to determine whether the providers' attitudes, smoking status, and confidence were associated with offering smoking cessation support to clients. ⋯ Interventions that bolster the confidence of providers to engage is smoking cessation activities and that support a shift in attitudes about the role of tobacco use in mental health are required.
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Patients are increasingly attracted to homeopathy despite the unproven effectiveness of homeopathic remedies. Clinical benefit of homeopathy may be due to communication. This review aims to identify and assess effective communication patterns in homeopathy. ⋯ Medical education should include values such as individual coping strategies, the benefits of a sound and healthy life-style and the necessity of hope and enablement. Health care should be redesigned to honor physicians who practice these values.
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The goal of this study is to add to a small, but growing body of research exploring how patients' communication style affects physicians' communication. In particular, we examine how patients' active participation (e.g., asking questions, providing information) affects physicians' use of patient-centered communication. ⋯ Patients who actively participate in medical interviews influence physicians to adopt a more patient-centered style of communication.
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To report on experiences with a general shared decision-making (SDM) physician training program offered to physicians throughout Germany. ⋯ Even physicians who are highly motivated to use SDM can improve their skills and benefit from SDM training. The dissemination of SDM training programs should be encouraged.
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Comparative Study
Mind the gap: Learners' perspectives on what they learn in communication compared to how they and others behave in the real world.
To explore the lack of the learners' voice at previous international conferences on communication in healthcare. ⋯ Integrating communication skills into medical school curricula is essential. Identifying enthusiastic doctors who are effective communicators and have the initiative to help develop this is vital. It may be beneficial to train simulated patients to react to students in a variety of different ways to reflect the diversity of true patient responses. In addition, having a better understanding of the multidisciplinary roles and rapidly developing technology would facilitate not only communication between health professionals but would also help optimize patient care.