Patient-provider health communication

6 important questions on Patient-provider health communication

Interpersonal health communication?

Person-to-person communication about health and disease, as a key source of social influence to change health and health behaviour.

From communication to health outcomes?

  • Direct pathway = communication functions > health outcomes
  • Indirect pathway = communication functions > proximal outcomes > intermediate outcomes > health outcomes

Examples of proximal outcomes?

  • Understanding
  • Clinician-patient agreement
  • Trust
  • Higher grades + faster learning
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Examples of intermediate outcomes?

  • Access to care
  • Compliance
  • Social support

Examples of health outcomes?

  • Survival
  • Cure
  • Emotional well-being

Continuum of decisional involvement?

  1. Paternalistic
  2. Shared decision-making
  3. Informed

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