Patient-Practitioner Relationship

Question 1

what study looks into non-verbal communication?

Answer 1

McKinstry and Wang (1991)

Question 2

State the Aim and Sample of McKinstry and Wang (1991)

Answer 2

to find peopples preferences in how their doctor dresses and if they believe how the doctor dresses affects their effectiveness as a doctor

Sample: 475 ppts all in scotland

Question 3

What were the dressing options for the Male Doctor?

Answer 3

1) White coat over formal suit
2) formal suit
3) tweed jacket, informal shirt and tie
4) cardigan, sport shirt, trousers
5) jeans and t-shirt

Question 4

What were the dressing options for the Female Doctor?

Answer 4

1) whitecoat over skirt and jumper
2) skirt, blouse and woolen jumper
3) pink trousers, jumper, gold earings

Question 4

What were the orders of preferences for the female doctors?

Answer 4

1) jumper and skirt
2) white coat

Question 5

What were the orders of preferences for the male doctors

Answer 5

1) Formal Suit
2) tweet Jacket
3) Coat over Suit
4)….
5) Jeans and t-shirt

Question 6

what were the results?

Answer 6

women had hiher overall scores than men
older patients gave higher scores to both doctors
64% of patients felt that the way their doctor was dressed was important

Question 7

What were the results of Robinson and West (1992)

Answer 7

that patients give more information in the computerised interview than in the questionnaire

both of the above revealed more info than a face-to-face conversation with the octor

Question 8

what are the 2 types of misdiagnoses?

Answer 8

False Positive Diagnosis (type 1 error)
False negative Diagnosis ()type 2 error

Question 9

define the 2 types of misdiagnoses

Answer 9

false +ve: when the patient is healthy, but the doctor diagnoses them as being unwell

false -ve: whwn the patient has a condition/illness but the doctor misdiagnoses them as being healthy