Effect of physician dress style on patient confidence

Maruani, Annabel; Léger, Jean‐Marc; Giraudeau, Bruno; Naouri, M.; Bidre, Emmanuelle Le; Samimi, Mahtab; Delage, M.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-3083.2012.04665.x

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“…Previous studies in human medicine found that patients prefer their physicians to be more formally attired and that those wearing more formal attire inspired more trust, confidence, and perceived empathy for their patients (Dunn et al 1987;Landry et al 2003;Lill & Wilkinson 2005;Rehman et al 2005;Budny et al 2006Gherardi et al 2009Palazzo & Hocken 2010;Hueston & Carek 2011;Chung et al 2012;Au et al 2013;Maruani et al 2013;Kurihara et al 2014). However, patient preference for their doctor's attire has been shown to vary as more formal attire is preferred in the specialty setting (Cha et al 2004), whereas patients did not appear to have a preference for their physician's attire in the emergency setting (Gonzalez Del Rey & Paul 1995;Lill & Wilkinson 2005;Edwards et al 2012).…”

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Evaluation of owners’ attitudes towards veterinarian attire in the small animal specialty setting in North America

Robb¹,

Rossi²,

Tansey

et al. 2018

Veterinary Medicine & Sci

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Previous studies in human medicine have found that patients prefer their doctors to be more formally attired, and that this influences their trust and confidence in their physician. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how veterinarians’ attire affected owners’ impressions and trust in the small animal specialty medicine setting. A questionnaire based study conducted during a 2‐month period at an urban based small animal private practice specialty hospital. Respondents completed a written survey after reviewing pictures of the same male and female veterinarian in five different dress styles. Respondents were asked for their preference for male and female veterinarian attire in different clinical scenarios and whether it would affect their willingness to discuss sensitive issues. Two hundred and thirty‐eight questionnaires were completed during the study period with 76.1% of respondents being female. Female respondents did not have a preference to how a male or female veterinarian was attired with the attire examples provided. However, male respondents tended to have fairly equal response rates between no preference and preferring a male veterinarian to be in either clinical or professional attire. Male owners either had no preference or preferred their male veterinarian to be attired in clinical or professional attire and had no preference or preferred their female veterinarian to be clinical attire. Most respondents do not feel it is necessary for a veterinarian to wear a white coat or neck ties and most do not feel it is inappropriate for a veterinarian to wear blue jeans, have coloured hair, or have visible tattoos.

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Evaluation of owners’ attitudes towards veterinarian attire in the small animal specialty setting in North America

Robb¹,

Rossi²,

Tansey

et al. 2018

Veterinary Medicine & Sci

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“…Trust in physicians influences the health and well-being of older adults, as well as paediatric patients (Simon, Zhang, & Dong, 2014;Singh, 2016). However, there have been few studies investigating how physicians can instil confidence in patients (Maruani et al, 2013;Fiscella et al, 2004).…”

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Analysis of the perceptions of medical students applying contextual relevance to literature

Hwang¹,

Kim²,

Kim³

2018

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Background: We analysed book reports written by medical students on 1) Bulgakov's A Young Doctor's Notebook and 2) Zweig's The Right to Heresy: Castellio against Calvin. Methods: About 50 medical students were asked to read the above books. In the book reports, the following questions were included: 1) Do patients have confidence in medical doctors? What is needed to gain a patient's trust? Can a doctor's good will and efforts make patients trust their doctor? Would it be helpful for a doctor to write a narrative of his or her own experiences to obtain patients' trust? 2) Should the medical doctor engage in wide variety of activities or focus on the medical profession? Would you risk your life for your convictions? Why is tolerance by medical doctors currently needed? Results: Of the students, 50% thought that patients do not have confidence in their medical doctors, while 34% answered that patients trust doctors; 46% answered that competence is needed for a doctor to be trusted by patients, 84% stated that good will and efforts will make patients trust their doctor, and 60% replied that it would be useful for a doctor to write a narrative of own experiences to obtain patients' trust. Eighty-four percent thought that it is desirable for medical doctors to participate in a wide variety of activities, and 60% answered that they would risk their life for their convictions. Discussion: Our findings regarding students' perceptions indicate that these readings are good teaching materials for medical humanities.

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“…Barrett & Booth (1994) fueron los primeros en hablar de un aspecto negativo de la túnica blanca y observaron que los niños consideran al doctor más competente cuando viste de manera formal pero a su vez lo encuentran menos amigable. Por otra parte, Maruani et al (2013) afirman que los niños muchas veces tienden a elegir la túnica blanca como vestimenta ya que están más acostumbrados a ir al doctor que al dentista, por lo tanto es la imagen que tienen. Medrano García y Castillo Cevallos reflexionan que en su estudio a los niños en general les resulta extraño ver un odontopediatra hombre con vestimenta de diseño infantil, y no así para la odontopediatra mujer, viéndolo como algo "inapropiado" para un hombre.…”

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“…Tanto el médico como el paciente afirman que la función más importante de la túnica blanca es la identificación del profesional que se dedica a la salud (Colt & Solot, 1989;Edwards et al, 2012;Chung et al, 2012). Sin embargo la moda ha sido una importante influencia dando como resultado una apariencia menos formal y mayor confort (Medrano, Castillo Cevallos, 2010;Chang et al, 2011;Maruani et al, 2013;Furnham et al, 2013). El uso de la túnica blanca en los profesionales de la salud se halla muy arraigado hoy en día en nuestra y otras sociedades, a pesar de ello resulta ser un tema muy debatido.…”

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Preferencia de pacientes niños y sus padres respecto a la vestimenta y sexo del odontopediatra

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Actas OdontológicasResumen Objetivo: evaluar si los niños y sus padres consideran que la vestimenta del odontopediatra es un aspecto importante en la relación paciente-profesional y cuál sería la de su preferencia. Métodos: se realizó un estudio transversal, analítico en 270 niños/as de 4 y 12 años y uno de sus respectivos padres, en una Clínica Privada y una Institución de Asistencia Colectivizada en Montevideo, Uruguay. El estudio incluyó un cuestionario dirigido a padres/madres y otro a niños/as, y fotografías de odontopediatras con diferente vestimenta: túnica blanca (Imagen 1 y 6), ambo de color lila para la mujer (I-2) y ambo de color verde para el hombre (I-7), equipo con diseños infantiles (I-3, I-8), vestimenta informal ( I-4, I-9) y vestimenta formal (I-5, I-10). Se les solicitó a los niños/as y padres/madres por separado que clasificaran sus preferencias. Resultados: el 29% de los niños/as manifestó preferencia por la imagen 2, seguida por un 25% por la imagen 3. Tanto para las madres como los padres, la imagen más elegida fue la número 3 con 47% y 10% respectivamente. En relación a las opiniones de los padres/madres con respecto a si la vestimenta del odontopediatra influye en el vínculo con su hijo/a, el 83% manifestó que sí, un 16% expresó que no y un 1% opinó "da igual". Conclusiones: la vestimenta más elegida por los niños/ as encuestados fue el ambo de color lila seguida por la vestimenta con diseño infantil, y la de menos preferencia fue la informal. Para los padres/madres la más elegida fue la vestimenta con diseño infantil. Los padres en general opinaron que la vestimenta influye en el vínculo entre el odontopediatra y su hijo/a; y el comportamiento del niño/a en el consultorio. AbstractObjective: assess whether the children and their parents believe that the dentist's attire is an important aspect of patient-professional relationship and, if so, which do they consider to be the most confidence-inspiring attire. Methods: a cross-sectional, analytical study was conducted on 270 children aged 4 -12 years old and one of their respective parents at one private clinic and an institution of assistance collectivized in Montevideo, Uruguay. The study included a questionnaire and photographs of pediatric dentists in different attire: white coat (picture 1 and 6), green scrub for man and violet scrub for women (picture 2 and 7), children's design on the scrubs (picture 3 and 8), casual attire (picture 4 and 9) and formal attire (picture 5 and 10). Children and parents separately asked to rate their preferences. Results: 29% of children expressed a preference for the image 2, followed by 25% by the image 3. For both mothers and fathers, the image was chosen n°3 with 47% and 10% respectively. With regard to the views of parents on whether the dentist dress influences in the bond between the professional and the child , the 83% said it has influence, while 16% said it doesn´t matter. Only 1% said "do not care". Conclusions: the attire more chosen by children was the violet scrub followed by the scrub with ...

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Effect of physician dress style on patient confidence

Abstract: In France, patients of all ages who consult for dermatology complaints in hospital and in private practice have the most confidence in a physician who wears a professional white coat.

Cited by 23 publications

References 13 publications

Evaluation of owners’ attitudes towards veterinarian attire in the small animal specialty setting in North America

Evaluation of owners’ attitudes towards veterinarian attire in the small animal specialty setting in North America

Analysis of the perceptions of medical students applying contextual relevance to literature

Preferencia de pacientes niños y sus padres respecto a la vestimenta y sexo del odontopediatra

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