Can 40 Seconds of Compassion Reduce Patient Anxiety?

Fogarty, Linda; Curbow, Barbara; Wingard, John R.; McDonnell, Karen A.; Somerfield, Mark R.

doi:10.1200/jco.1999.17.1.371

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“…For example, the Shared Decision-Making skills when applied in a context of communication about clinical trials have been showed to improve patient attitudes toward trial participation [63]. Establishing the consultation framework skills, such as inviting the patient's agenda in the right way, has been shown to eliminate unmet concerns [64] while empathic communication skills reduce patient anxiety [65].…”

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“…A coding manual was developed that operationalized each of the skills, further providing examples of when a particular skill should or should not be coded. 1 The first and fourth authors worked as coders on this project. They began by discussing 10% of the video recordings to further refine the coding system and work toward achieving inter-coder reliability.…”

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“…Patient-centered communication can contribute to a decrease in patient anxiety [1,2], the building of therapeutic alliances [3], and the improvement of patient recall [4], satisfaction [2,5], and self-efficacy [3]. Patient-centered communication can also improve clinicians' satisfaction and decrease malpractice claims [6].…”

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The implementation and assessment of a comprehensive communication skills training curriculum for oncologists

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Objective: The objective of this paper is to report the implementation and assessment of the Comskil Training Curriculum at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.Method: Twenty-eight attending physicians and surgeons participated in communication skills training modules as part of a train-the-trainer program. Doctors were video recorded in clinical consultations with patients two times before training and two times after training, resulting in 112 video recordings for analysis. Recordings were coded using the Comskil Coding System.Results: Communication skills related to two of the six major skill sets, Establishing the Consultation Framework and Checking, increased following training. Limited changes emerged in three skill sets, while one skill set, Shared Decision Making, did not change. Doctors who attended more training modules had higher levels of change. Female participants demonstrated three skills more frequently than males post-training.Conclusions: The intervention produced significant communication skills uptake in a group of experienced attending clinicians, mediated by the amount of training. Future research should focus on the dose of training necessary to achieve skills uptake and the effect of skills training on patient outcomes.

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“…In previous studies of cancer patients with anxiety disorders by standardised psychiatric criteria, mean STAI-S was 44.4, in contrast to 36 in those with normal levels of anxiety (Stark et al, 2002). The measure has been used for 30 years, with cancer patients, and has demonstrated factor structure and sensitivity to change (Spielberger, 1983;Fogarty et al, 1999).…”

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Reassurance and the anxious cancer patient

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“…When clinicians acknowledge patients' emotions and invite discussion, they give them the opportunity to convey their concerns. Patients whose physicians are empathic and invite discussion disclose more concerns [36] and, as a result, have lower levels of distress [20,45,49].…”

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“What concerns me is…” Expression of emotion by advanced cancer patients during outpatient visits

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Objective-Cancer patients have high levels of distress, yet oncologists often do not recognize patients' concerns. We sought to describe how patients with advanced cancer verbally express negative emotion to their oncologists. Materials and methods-As part of the Studying Communication in Oncologist-PatientEncounters Trial, we audio-recorded 415 visits that 281 patients with advanced cancer made to their oncologists at three US cancer centers. Using qualitative methodology, we coded for verbal expressions of negative emotion, identified words patients used to express emotion, and categorized emotions by type and content.

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Can 40 Seconds of Compassion Reduce Patient Anxiety?

Abstract: The enhanced compassion segment was short, simple, and effective in decreasing viewers' anxiety. Further research is needed to translate these findings to the clinical setting, where reducing patient anxiety is a therapeutic goal.

Cited by 454 publications

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The implementation and assessment of a comprehensive communication skills training curriculum for oncologists

The implementation and assessment of a comprehensive communication skills training curriculum for oncologists

Reassurance and the anxious cancer patient

“What concerns me is…” Expression of emotion by advanced cancer patients during outpatient visits

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