Patient and practioner relationships

Question 1

Define practioner

Answer 1

Any licensed professional who practices medicine

Question 2

Define Practioner-patient relationships

Answer 2

• Refers to the professional and interpersonal dynamic between a physician and a patient.

Question 3

What is Non-verbal communication?

Answer 3

• Range of signals that go beyond spoken language

Question 4

Research into non-verbal communication from doctors has suggested..

Answer 4

• The clothes a doctor wears can affect how patients view them (Mckinstry and Wang 1991)

Question 5

What was the aim of McKinstry and Wang’s (1991) study?

Answer 5

• To determine how acceptable patients found different styles of doctors dress.
• Whether a doctors style of dress influenced the patients perception of the DRs effectiveness.

Question 6

What is verbal communciation?

Answer 6

• Use of spoken or written words to convey messages

Question 7

Samora Et Al (1961) researched into verbal communication between patients and practioners and found…

Answer 7

• Reported a long list of what they called patient deficiencies.

Question 8

Can you name 2 “patient deficiencies”?

Answer 8

1. Unwilliness to recieve unpleasant information
2. Memory recall problems

Question 9

What does making a diagnosis require?

Answer 9

Disclosure of information

Question 10

What is disclosure of information?

Answer 10

• When patients disclose information about their symptoms and experinces with their DRs so a diagnosis can be made.

Question 11

Sometimes, patients feel that their communication with healthcare providers is lacking or not effective. This perception can arise from which two main areas?

Answer 11

1. Content skills
2. Process skills

Question 12

What are content skills?

Answer 12

• What doctors SAY
• Focus on the “what” – the specific information shared during the consultation.

Question 13

What are process skills?

Answer 13

• HOW doctors say it
• Focus on the “how” – the manner and effectiveness of the interaction between the doctor and the patient.

Question 14

What was the results of Robinson and West (1992) study on patient disclosure of information?

Answer 14

• Patients are more likely to disclose sensitive information when interacting with a computer-based questionnaire rather than a face-to-face interview.
• As they are less worried about social judgements and embarrassment
  They admitted having
  1. More sexual partners😘
  2. Having attended before🙈
  3. Revealed more symptoms.🤢

Question 15

What are type 1 errors in RESERACH?

Answer 15

• Occurs when a researcher incorrectly REJECTS the null hypothesis
• Concluding that there is an effect/ relationship when there is NOT one
• False positive

Question 16

What are type 1 errors when making a diagnosis?

Answer 16

-When the patient is healthy but the doctor misdiagnosis them as being unwell

Question 17

What are type 2 errors in research?

Answer 17

• Occurs when a researcher FAILS to REJECT the null hypothesis
• Concluding there is no effect or relationship when there IS one.

Question 18

What are type 2 errors when making a diagnosis?

Answer 18

• When a patient is ill and does have a condition or illness but is misdiagnosed as healthy.

Question 19

What are signficance levels?

Answer 19

• A threshold set by researchers
• To determine how confident they want to be
• When rejecting the null hypothesis.

Question 20

Can you name 3 common signficance levels?

Answer 20

0.05 (5%), (that the results are due to chance)
0.01 (1%)
0.001 (0.1%).

Question 21

Why are type 1 and 2 errors (in diagnosis) harmful?

Answer 21

• Type 1= Given medication thats not needed (serious side effects)
• Type 2 = No medical support given (fatal)