Choose Your Words Wisely: The Impact of Message Framing on Patients' Responses to Treatment Advice

Awareness of family health history in a predominantly young adult population

“…The script was adapted from an educational worksheet originally developed for MeTree and a CDC survey [20] (see S2 Text). We employed message-framing strategies recommended for patient health education resources [25, 26], including phrasing recommendations as positively-framed actions, conveying primary recommendations via physician authority, and modeling behaviors from family members and fictional MeTree end-users to increase viewers’ self-efficacy [27]. The videos also included FHH strategies for when and how to acquire FHH, a suggested list of questions to ask family members, and answers to common concerns about FHH collection and sharing.…”

Preface

“…There is increasing consensus that clinicians can actively set positive patients’ expectations (Darnall & Colloca, 2018; Glare, Fridman, & Ashton-James, 2018; Klinger et al, 2018). Educating patients about pain treatments and their effects can strengthen their overall pain reduction, coping, and resilience skills.…”

“…A fundamental part of this research is represented by the impact of words and delivered information about treatment responses and their adverse effects (Glare et al, 2018). In clinical research, symptoms and complaints in patient populations, medication nonadherence, and need for additional drug prescriptions, among other topics, are often grouped together into a category called risk communication and framing effects.…”

“…A potential area of clinical relevance for its applicability is the use of message framing to remodel and retain expectations of patients in clinical contexts (Glare et al, 2018). In the era of automation of health care and telemedicine, message framing can be powerfully used to engage patients during the delivery of treatment and long-term follow-ups (Darnall & Colloca, 2018; Glare et al, 2018). The implementation of such toolkits, automation of health care, and telemedicine should occur in clinical settings in which the patient-clinician interaction and the overall encounter around the patient are optimized.…”

“…The attentive consideration of the variety of additive- versus nonadditive-related placebo mechanisms, the use of ethical approaches (Annoni, 2018), the development of toolkits (Darnall & Colloca, 2018), and automation of message framing to engage patients (Glare et al, 2018) can maximize placebo effects in medical practice and help implement novel strategies to improve patients’ well-being and drug validation and contribute to clinically relevant health outcomes.…”