An exploration of patient and family engagement in routine primary care visits.
Health Expect
; 18(2): 188-98, 2015 Apr.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Older adults are commonly accompanied to routine medical visits. Whether and how family companion behaviours relate to visit processes is poorly understood.OBJECTIVE:
To examine family companion behaviours in relation to older adults' medical visit processes. DESIGN ANDPARTICIPANTS:
Observational study of 78 accompanied primary care patients ages 65 and older. MAIN OUTCOMEMEASURES:
Medical visit communication (coded using RIAS), patient verbal activity (as a proportion of visit statements) and visit duration (in min), from audio recordings.RESULTS:
Companions' facilitation of patient involvement was associated with greater patient question asking (P = 0.017) and orienting statements, less passive agreement (P = 0.004) and social talk (P = 0.013) and visits that were 3.4 min longer (P = 0.025). Facilitation of patient understanding was associated with less physician question asking (P = 0.004), visits that were 3.0 min longer (P = 0.031), and lower patient verbal activity (30.3% vs. 36.9% of visit statements; P = 0.028). Facilitation of doctor understanding was associated with greater patient biomedical information giving (P = 0.049). Autonomy detracting behaviours were not associated with visit duration but were associated with lower levels of patient verbal activity (36.3% vs. 29.1% of visit statements; P = 0.041). When companions assumed more behaviours, medical visits were incrementally longer (16.1, 19.5, 21.7 min, corresponding to 0-1, 2-4 and 5+ behaviours; P < 0.001 both contrasts), and patients were less verbally active (35.6%, 33.9%, 27.1% of visit statements; P = 0.09 and P = 0.009, respectively).DISCUSSION:
Behaviours assumed by patients' companions were associated with visit communication, patient verbal activity and visit duration.CONCLUSIONS:
Interventions to capitalize on family companions' presence may benefit medical visit processes.Palavras-chave
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Contexto em Saúde:
11_ODS3_cobertura_universal
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1_ASSA2030
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Visita a Consultório Médico
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Participação do Paciente
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Atenção Primária à Saúde
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Família
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Comunicação
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
Aspecto:
Equity_inequality
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Patient_preference
Limite:
Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health Expect
Ano de publicação:
2015
Tipo de documento:
Article