W 11, 12 Flashcards
What is the purpose of medical interviewing?
- to gather information
- to establish a safe atmosphere and trusting relationship with the patient
- to provide patient education (inform and motivate the patient)
What is a biomedical approach?
- focuses on biological factors
- defines health as “absence of disease”
(reductionist; singular concepts)
What is biopsychosocial approach?
- connects biological factors with psychological and social
- allows for increased understanding of illness and health
(considers multiple factors at once)
What is the hierarchy of natural systems?
Bio (bodily systems) -> Psycho (experience and behavior) -> Social (Culture, community, family)
What are the determinants of health?
- Biology (genetics, sex, age)
- Social (education, occupation, culture, norms, attitudes)
- Behavior (diet, exercise, substance use)
- Medical system (health policy, access to care)
- Environment (living conditions worksites, schools, exposure to toxins)
Why should medical interviewing be improved?
- patients seek care due to their experience, not their symptoms
- patients often have more than one concern
- being able to tell one’s story is diagnostically useful and therapeutic
What is clinician-centered interviewing?
- close-ended Qs
- clinician in-charge of the interaction
- clinician-driven priorities and beliefs (bias)
- interview to elicit symptoms of disease
- differentiates potential conditions the patient may be suffering from
What is patient-centered interviewing?
- open-ended Qs
- patient leads the interaction
- allows patient to express importance / expectations
- interview to elicit experience of disease (symptoms and personal concerns, feelings and emotions)
- builds and maintains clinician-patient relationship
Open-ended data gathering skills include:
- non-focusing
- silence
- non-verbal encouragement (eye contact, hand gestures, leaning forward)
- continuers - focusing
- echoing (repeating)
- requesting
- summarizing
Close-ended data gathering skills include:
- Yes/No answers
- brief replies
- MCQ
Emotion-seeking interviewing skills include:
- direct inquiry
- indirect inquiry
- inquiring about impact
- eliciting beliefs or attributions
- intuiting how the patient might be feeling
- asking about triggers
Conveying-empathy interviewing skills include:
NURSE
- Name the feeling/ emotion
- repeat the feeling expressed by the patient
- state the feeling u observed
- Understand statement
- Respect
- Support
- Exploring emotions
What are the components of “beginning of interview” stage?
SUBJECTIVE
- Preparation (1-3 mins)
1. set the stage (30-60s)
2. set the agenda (cc, concern list; 1-2 mins) - Patient-centered HPI (4-12 mins)
3, 4, 5. early interview (symptom(s) description, personal and emotional context; using PATIENT-CENTRED skills) - Transition (30s)
- Setting the stage (30-60 s):
- prepare for patient consult (read intake form/chart, familiarize yourself with patient’s problem list, medications, allergies, relevant past medical history)
- welcome/ greet the patient
- use patient’s name
- introduce urself and identify specific role
- ensure patient readiness and privacy
- address barriers to communication (sit down)
- ensure comfort and put patient at ease
- Set the agenda (elicit cc; 1-2 mins):
- indicate time available
- forecast what you would like to do during the interview
- obtain a list of all issues the patient wants to discuss (specific symptoms, requests, expectations, understanding)
- summarize and finalize the agenda (negotiate specifics if too many agenda items)