Evaluation of a patient education leaflet designed to improve communication in medical consultations

Frederikson, Lesley G.; Bull, Peter

doi:10.1016/0738-3991(94)00696-j

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“…They are also consistent with the information needs of most cancer patients, and their preferences to receive as much information as possible about their care (James et al, 1999). Also consistent are findings by James and colleagues (1999) and others (Frederickson and Bull, 1995;Johnson and Meischke, 1991) regarding the formats that patients and their family members prefer to access information through--printed media and healthcare professionals. For those patients seeking genetic counseling and testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, incorporating these types of resources into the counseling process is a natural element of contemporary practice (Smith, 1998;Trepanier et al, 2004).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 69%

Information Needs of Mothers Regarding CommunicatingBRCA1/2Cancer Genetic Test Results to Their Children

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Mothers who participate in genetic testing for hereditary breast/ovarian cancer risk must decide if, when, and how to ultimately share their BRCA1 and BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) test results with their minor-age children. One of the primary aides for mothers in making this decision is cancer genetic counseling. However, counseling is limited in how well it can educate mothers about such decisions without the availability of resources that are specific to family communication and genetic testing per se. In an effort to fill this gap and identify mothers most likely to benefit from such resources, surveys were conducted with 187 mothers undergoing BRCA1/2 testing who had children 8-21 years-old. Data were collected weeks after genetic testing but prior to mothers' learning of their test results; quantitative assessments of informational resource needs (i.e., speaking with previous BRCA1/2 testing participants who are parents regarding their experiences, reading educational literature about options and what to expect, speaking with a family counselor, attending a family support group, and self-nominated other resources), testing motivations, decision making vigilance, and decisional conflict regarding communicating test results to children were included. Mothers' most-to-least frequently cited information resource needs were: literature (93.4%), family counseling (85.8%), prior participants (79.0%), support groups (53.9%), and other (28.9%; e.g., pediatricians and psychologists). Seventy-eight percent of mothers were interested in accessing 3 or more resources. In multivariate regression analyses, testing motivations (β=0.35, p=.03), decision making vigilance (β=0.16, p=.00) and decisional conflict (β=0.10, p=.00) were associated with mothers' need level; mothers with a greater interest in testing to learn about their children's risks, those with more vigilant decision making styles, and those with higher decisional conflict had the greatest need. In conjunction with enhanced genetic counseling focusing on family disclosure, educational literature and psychosocial support may promote improved outcomes.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 69%

Information Needs of Mothers Regarding CommunicatingBRCA1/2Cancer Genetic Test Results to Their Children

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“…[12][13][14][15][16] Doctors felt more satisfied with the consultation and there was no evidence of increased demands, although there may be some increase in consultation duration. 14 16 Time spent talking by the doctor may be positively associated with satisfaction, 9 but the opposite can occur. 17 Clearly, quality is more important than quantity and is better achieved when patients can communicate their agenda clearly and when doctors respond appropriately.…”

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confidence: 93%

A question sheet to encourage written consultation questions

Cunningham

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2000

Quality in Health Care

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Problem + Interviews with parents and children attending a hospital paediatric neurology clinic indicated they had diYculties in asking questions during consultations. Aim+ To set up a process to enable parents and children to get the information they wanted.Background and setting + Two paediatric neurology clinics in separate hospitals in Greater Manchester, UK with a similar client group run by one consultant.

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“…Although the majority of patients prefer to let their physician make the decisions, the more a patient learns about her illness, the more likely she is to ask questions of her physician (Frederikson & Bull, 1995;Mullen, Main, & Velez, 1992;Kaplan, Greenfield, & Ware, Jr., 1989;Sharf, 1988;Mullen, Green, & Persinger, 1985). Studies have shown that patients who ask questions, elicit treatment options, express opinions, and state their preferences regarding treatment during office visits with their physicians have measurably better health outcomes than those who do not communicate (Kohn, Corrigan, & Donaldson, 2000;Rost et al, 1991;Mahler & Kulik, 1990;Barry et al, 1988;Greenfield et al, 1988;Greenfield, Kaplan, & Ware, Jr., 1985) This study examined how the Internet affects an elderly user population that is presumed to be relatively passive in its own health care.…”

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Older Women and the Internet

Campbell

2004

Journal of Women & Aging

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This study was designed to explore the effects that training had on older adults' willingness to use the Internet to manage their health care. The most interesting result was that out of 70 self-volunteers, 58 were women. Results show that highly educated women who either own a computer or have access to one, and have low levels of anxiety toward computers, with strong feelings of self-efficacy toward computers and the Internet, and an internal locus of control, are more willing than men to use the Internet to find medical information to manage a chronic health problem.

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Evaluation of a patient education leaflet designed to improve communication in medical consultations

Cited by 54 publications

References 17 publications

Information Needs of Mothers Regarding CommunicatingBRCA1/2Cancer Genetic Test Results to Their Children

Information Needs of Mothers Regarding CommunicatingBRCA1/2Cancer Genetic Test Results to Their Children

A question sheet to encourage written consultation questions

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