Effect of Verbal Empathy and Touch on Anxiety Relief in Patients Undergoing Flexible Bronchoscopy: Can Empathy Reduce Patients' Anxiety?

Respiration

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 380-388

  Choi, Sun Mi ^a   Lee, Jinwoo ^a   Park, Young Sik ^a   Lee, Chang Hoon ^a   Lee, Sang Min ^a   Yim, Jae Joon ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Bronchoscopy; Empathy; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE BRONCHOSCOPE; HAND; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONOLOGIST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHOULDER; TOUCH; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; THERAPY;

AGED; ANXIETY; BRONCHOSCOPY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PULMONOLOGISTS; TOUCH; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84992688634     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000450960     Document Type: Article

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