The Test of Accurate Perception of Patients’ Affect (TAPPA): An ecologically valid tool for assessing interpersonal perception accuracy in clinicians

Hall, Judith A.; Ship, Amy N.; Ruben, Mollie A.; Curtin, Elizabeth M.; Roter, Debra; Clever, Sarah L.; Smith, Christopher C.; Pounds, Karen

doi:10.1016/j.pec.2013.10.004

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“…The TAPPA has been demonstrated to be a valid and reliable audiovisual test of interpersonal accuracy (Hall et al., 2014a,b). The stimuli contain videotaped real patients talking to their physicians during a real medical appointment.…”

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“…An important contribution of standardized tests is the ability to objectively measure accuracy in perceiving patients' affect. The Test of Accurate Perception of Patients' Affect (TAPPA) has been validated and shown to reliably measure accurate perception of patient affect (Hall et al., 2014a,b). With an objective measure of accuracy in place, research can focus on developing effective trainings to improve this valuable skill.…”

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Discussion increases efficacy when training accurate perception of patients' affect

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J Applied Social Pyschol

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Patients benefit when their healthcare providers accurately recognize their affect. The efficacy of three short‐term training components, practice, practice with feedback, and discussion with practice and feedback, to improve accuracy for judging patients' affect was experimentally assessed. Undergraduate participants were randomly assigned in pairs to one of the training conditions or an untrained control condition and the effect of training was measured using the Test of Accurate Perception of Patients' Affect (TAPPA). Participants were significantly more accurate on the TAPPA in the discussion with feedback and practice condition compared with the control condition. There was a significant linear trend in accuracy across training elements. Results suggest that a 40‐min discussion with feedback and practice training can significantly improve interpersonal accuracy.

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Discussion increases efficacy when training accurate perception of patients' affect

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“…Videotaped tests of pain assessment accuracy use a standard set of patients so accuracy can be compared across providers. Standardized tests using videotaped patients in other domains (e.g., assessing patients' emotions) have been used and accepted in medical education and medical training [86,87], yet a validated videotaped test of pain assessment accuracy does not currently exist in the healthcare field and could be valuable for assessment and training purposes.…”

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Healthcare providers’ accuracy in assessing patients’ pain: A systematic review

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Patient Education and Counseling

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“…Furthermore, Baez and colleagues suspected women’s higher scores in empathy self-assessment forms to be biased by gender-role stereotypes in self-assessments [ 20 ]: Women might ascribe themselves more empathy simply because society expects them to do so [ 23 ]. However, there is some evidence that female medical students’ higher scores in empathy are not only an artifact of self-assessment because they also achieved higher scores in observer-rated interactions with simulated patients [ 24 , 25 ]. Nevertheless, such findings have been inconsistent [ 26 ].…”

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Emotion recognition and extraversion of medical students interact to predict their empathic communication perceived by simulated patients

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BackgroundThis study assessed the impact of medical students’ emotion recognition ability and extraversion on their empathic communication, as perceived by simulated patients in a training context.MethodsThis study used a crossed-effect data structure and examined 245 students in their fourth year of medical school. The students’ personality traits were assessed based on a self-assessment questionnaire of the short form of the Big Five Inventory; their emotion recognition ability was measured using a performance test (Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy-2, Adult Facial Expressions). Simulated patients evaluated the medical students’ empathic communication.ResultsStudents with a combination of high emotion recognition ability and extraversion received more positive ratings from simulated patients than their fellow students with a combination of emotion recognition ability and low extraversion. The main effects of emotion recognition or extraversion were not sufficient to yield similar effects. There were no other effects related to the remaining Big Five variables.ConclusionsThe results support the hypothesis that to build rapport with patients, medical staff need to combine emotional capabilities with a dispositional interest in interpersonal encounters.

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The Test of Accurate Perception of Patients’ Affect (TAPPA): An ecologically valid tool for assessing interpersonal perception accuracy in clinicians

Cited by 25 publications

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Discussion increases efficacy when training accurate perception of patients' affect

Discussion increases efficacy when training accurate perception of patients' affect

Healthcare providers’ accuracy in assessing patients’ pain: A systematic review

Emotion recognition and extraversion of medical students interact to predict their empathic communication perceived by simulated patients

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