Patient education and counseling
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The effect of training in communication skills on medical doctors' and nurses' self-efficacy. A randomized controlled trial.
To investigate the effect of communication skills training on doctors' and nurses' self-efficacy, to explore how training courses influence the initial experience of self-efficacy and to identify determinants of health professionals' self-efficacy. ⋯ Communication courses can be used to improve doctors' and nurses' ability to perform some of the essential communicative demands they are facing in daily praxis.
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To provide psychometric characteristics of the Italian language version of the OPTION scale and descriptive statistics on patients' involvement. The OPTION scale assesses the extent to which clinicians involve patients in therapeutic decisions. The English language version has a Cohen's kappa score for individual items ranging from 0.45 to 0.98 and an intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) for the total score of 0.77. ⋯ OPTION can be used for both teaching purposes and research, as well as for future cross-national comparisons.
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To explore main features of pain drawings and concepts about illness in patients seeking help for "half-body" complaints at two primary health care centres in different parts of Sweden. ⋯ Patients with half-body complaints should be taken seriously and met with respect by doctors and other health care personnel, particularly in cross-cultural consultations.
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Lifestyle modification programs tailored to experience, culture, psychosocial characteristics, and world-view can improve knowledge, self-care behaviors, and glucose control among Latinos with diabetes. Few data exist, however, on improving diabetes self-management among Latinos. In addition, views and practices of practitioners caring for these patients have received little attention. ⋯ Study findings underscore the need to develop tailored programs for this population and to train practitioners on their implementation.