Trust, social support and patient type—Associations between patients perceived trust, supportive communication and patients preferences in regard to paternalism, clarification and participation of severely injured patients
Patient Education and CounselingPublished 4 May 2008
Oliver Ommen, Christian Janßen, Edmund Neugebauer, Bertil Bouillon, Klaus E. Rehm, Christoph Rangger
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Investigating the relationships between patients perceived trust, supportive communication of physicians and patient type of severely injured patients confirmed the importance of supportive communication in terms of emotional and informational support.
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Medical education should integrate sound knowledge about the psychosocial aspects of physician patient interaction to enable doctors to provide effective social support and to identify and consider patients preferences.
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