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Title: | The good, the bad, and the contingency : how patients’ treatment verification behaviors are linked to doctors’ reactions | Authors: | Wu, W Liu, W Ma, L |
Issue Date: | Jun-2021 | Source: | Patient education and counseling, June 2021, v. 104, no. 6, p. 1364-1370 | Abstract: | Objective: This article introducesTreatment Verification Behavior (TVB) to conceptualize patient proactivity. The article also aims to examine doctors’ responses to patients’ TVBs. Methods: A doctor-patient paired, two-wave data set was collected from eight hospitals in North China. We collected data from 304 doctor-patient dyads with each doctor rating, on average, three inpatients. Results: The results show that when patients consulted their doctors about information regarding a diagnosis or treatment (i.e.,consulting TVB), it improved doctors’ perception of the patients’ ability, which further increased doctors’ work engagement. Alternatively, when patients challenged doctors about information regarding a diagnosis or treatment (i.e., challenging TVB), it induced doctors’ perception of threat but without significantly decreasing doctors’ work engagement. In addition, when doctors felt respected by patients, this feeling moderated the effects of patients’ TVBs on doctors’ reactions. Conclusion: Both the content (the “what”) and the manner (the “how”) of patients’ proactive communications with their doctors will influence doctors’ responses. Practice implications: These insights suggest that patient and doctor communication training should include components that address both the content and performance of communication. |
Keywords: | Doctor engagement Patient proactivity Treatment verification behaviors |
Publisher: | Elsevier | Journal: | Patient education and counseling | ISSN: | 0738-3991 | EISSN: | 1873-5134 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.pec.2020.11.003 | Rights: | © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. © 2020. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. The following publication Wu, W., Liu, W., & Ma, L. (2021). The good, the bad, and the contingency: How patients’ treatment verification behaviors are linked to doctors’ reactions. Patient Education and Counseling, 104(6), 1364-1370 is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2020.11.003. |
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