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Physician Communication and Patient Adherence to Treatment: A Meta-Analysis

Zolnierek, Kelly B. Haskard ; DiMatteo, M. Robin

Medical care, 2009-08, Vol.47 (8), p.826-834 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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  • Título:
    Physician Communication and Patient Adherence to Treatment: A Meta-Analysis
  • Autor: Zolnierek, Kelly B. Haskard ; DiMatteo, M. Robin
  • Assuntos: Age Factors ; Communication ; Communication skills ; Communications ; Doctor patient communication ; Health care ; Health outcomes ; Humans ; Medical treatment ; Medicine ; Meta-analysis ; Nonverbal communication ; Patient Compliance ; Pediatrics ; Physician patient relationships ; Physician-Patient Relations ; Physicians ; Professional communication ; Severity of Illness Index ; Specialization ; Spoken communication ; Time Factors ; Training
  • É parte de: Medical care, 2009-08, Vol.47 (8), p.826-834
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    Co-author contact information: M. Robin DiMatteo, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of California, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92521, tel: (951) 827-5734, fax: (951) 827-3985. E-mail: robin@ucr.edu
  • Descrição: Background: Numerous empirical studies from various populations and settings link patient treatment adherence to physician-patient communication. Meta-analysis allows estimates of the overall effects both in correlational research and in experimental interventions involving the training of physicians' communication skills. Objectives: Calculation and analysis of "r effect sizes" and moderators of the relationship between physician's communication and patient adherence, and the effects of communication training on adherence to treatment regimens for varying medical conditions. Methods: Thorough search of published literature (1949-August 2008) producing separate effects from 106 correlational studies and 21 experimental interventions. Determination of random effects model statistics and the detailed examination of study variability using moderator analyses. Results: Physician communication is significantly positively correlated with patient adherence; there is a 19% higher risk of nonadherence among patients whose physician communicates poorly than among patients whose physician communicates well. Training physicians in communication skills results in substantial and significant improvements in patient adherence such that with physician communication training, the odds of patient adherence are 1.62 times higher than when a physician receives no training. Conclusion: Communication in medical care is highly correlated with better patient adherence, and training physicians to communicate better enhances their patients' adherence. Findings can contrib- ute to medical education and to interventions to improve adherence, supporting arguments that communication is important and resources devoted to improving it are worth investing in. Communication is thus an important factor over which physicians have some control in helping their patients to adhere.
  • Editor: United States: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  • Idioma: Inglês
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