Effects of patient-centered communication on anxiety, negative affect, and trust in the physician in delivering a cancer diagnosis: A randomized, experimental study

Cancer

Volumn 123, Issue 16, 2017, Pages 3167-3175

  Zwingmann, Jelena ^a   Baile, Walter F ^b   Schmier, Johann W ^a   Bernhard, Jürg ^c   Keller, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

anxiety; cancer diagnosis; empathy; patient centered communication; randomized controlled trial (RCT)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTIONALITY; ENHANCED PATIENT CENTERED COMMUNICATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW PATIENT CENTERED COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGATIVE AFFECT; ONCOLOGIST; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX; TRUST; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VIDEORECORDING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TRUST; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85017442686     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.30694     Document Type: Article

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