Patient Information-Seeking Behaviors When Communicating With Doctors
作者:
Analee Beisecker,
Thomas Beisecker,
期刊:
Medical Care
(OVID Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 28,
issue 1
页码: 19-28
ISSN:0025-7079
年代: 1990
出版商: OVID
关键词: doctor-patient communication;patient information-seeking;medical encounters;question asking;consumerism;patient role
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
In order to better understand patient differences in question asking and other information-seeking behaviors when communicating with doctors, 106 rehabilitation medicine patients were studied. Sociodemographic data, attitude measures, interview data and tape recordings of doctor-patient encounters revealed that patients desired information about a wide range of medical topics but did not engage in many information-seeking behaviors when communicating with doctors. While desiring information, patients regarded doctors as the appropriate persons to make medical decisions. Regression analyses indicated that patient information-seeking behaviors were more directly associated with situational variables (length of interaction, diagnosis, reason for visit) than with patient attitudes or sociodemographic characteristics. Patient attitudes influenced patient information-seeking behaviors only for patients with interactions lasting at least 19 minutes, indicating that a longer interaction may be necessary for patient attitudes regarding desire for information and participation in medical decisions to manifest themselves in information-seeking communication behavior.
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