Parents’ Perceptions of Physicians’ Communicative Style

Autor:	M. Christine Nagy, Peggy O. Jessee, Channon Downs
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Social Psychology Young child Office visits media_common.quotation_subject Pediatrics Style (sociolinguistics) Health educators Reducing anxiety Family medicine Perception Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Parental perception Psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Early Child Development and Care. 169:97-108
ISSN:	1476-8275 0300-4430
DOI:	10.1080/0300443011690107
Popis:	Research indicates that parents are under a great deal of stress when a young child is ill and particularly when the child is hospitalized. A key factor in reducing anxiety for parents and children, as well as promoting family‐centered care, is effective communication with the physician and other health educators. This project examined relationships between parent perceptions of their child's physician's communication style and overall satisfaction with him/her. Relationships were examined in the office/clinic and hospital settings. A total of 120 parents participated in the study. The sample was drawn from parents with children attending university‐affiliated childcare centers in a southern US state. Parents who had experienced the hospitalization of a child were less satisfied with their physician during office visits than parents whose children had not been hospitalized. Relationships between the dimensions of physician's communication style and overall satisfaction were also found to differ according ...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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