Patient-clinician ethnic concordance and communication in mental health intake visits

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 188-196

  Alegría, Margarita ^a,b   Roter, Debra L ^c   Valentine, Anne ^a   Chen, Chih nan ^a   Li, Xinliang ^a   Lin, Julia ^a,b   Rosen, Daniel ^d   Lapatin, Sheri ^a   Normand, Sharon Lise ^b   Larson, Susan ^b   Shrout, Patrick E ^e  

^a Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d BASTYR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concordance; Patient clinician communication; RIAS; Therapeutic alliance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MINORITY GROUP; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; ROTER INTERACTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; WORKING ALLIANCE INVENTORY OBSERVER BOND SCALE;

CONCORDANCE; PATIENT-CLINICIAN COMMUNICATION; RIAS; THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 84885390228     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2013.07.001     Document Type: Article

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