Insights Into the Relationships Between Health Communication and Doctor-patient Relationship: A Scientometric Analysis Based on CiteSpace and Validation of Questionnaires

Abstract

In order to understand the research status of the relationship between health communication and doctor-patient relationship, and to explore a new path of the impact of health communication on doctor-patient relationship, this paper adopted qualitative methods to quantize the literature over the past 10 years in the Web of Science database and carried out Co-Authorship Analysis, Co-Citation Analysis and Co-Occurrence Analysis based on CiteSpace. In addition, according to the results of bibliometric research, self-designed questionnaires were used to verify the result. A convenience sampling survey was conducted through the online “Questionnaire Star” platform (https://www.wjx.cn) on May 8, 2022, and a total of 254 questionnaires were collected. Interviewees were asked to use social software to acquire health knowledge. Participants come from 21 provinces, 4 municipalities, and 4 autonomous regions across the country, which is geographically representative. The results show that uncertainty of social media information and the particularity of the epidemic make the research on health communication and doctor-patient relationship in social media become a new hot spot. Social media health information quality (source credibility and content trust perception), information asymmetry perception, doctor-patient communication, doctor-patient consistency, doctor-patient trust, doctor-patient relationship may be the key variables for constructing theoretical models.

Psychology of doctor-patient interaction in the context of medical specialist's communicative tolerance

“…At the same time, the treatment process is accompanied by a number of psychological phenomena that are related to the personal characteristics of the patient, the doctor, and the treatment methods chosen by him/her. Modern research indicates that, for the most part, psychological interaction between a doctor and a patient occurs spontaneously, and their communication depends on a specific situation where there is a possibility of a lack of contact (trust) between them (Wang et al, 2022;Lu et al, 2023;Wang et al, 2023). This has a negative impact on the information content of the patient's medical history and the outcome of treatment.…”

“…Communicative tolerance is an important component of a medical professional's professional competence. The ability to establish a trusting relationship with patients allows the doctor to build an effective treatment strategy and ensure mutual understanding during this process (Lu et al, 2023). A sign of psychological contact with the patient is that the Source: compiled by the authors patient will not doubt the correctness of the diagnostic and treatment tactics and will follow the doctor's prescriptions.…”

Bibliometric and visualization analysis of risk management in the doctor–patient relationship: A systematic quantitative literature review

“…The sudden increase in global scholarly interest in a particular area is bound to be a common problem. [41] For example, the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019 to early 2020. Globally, the countries at the forefront of research on risk management in the DPR are the United States and the United Kingdom, with both fruitful research results and a relatively high total and average number of citations per article.…”

“…The analysis of burst words reveals keywords that change rapidly or increase dramatically in number in a short period of time, allowing the emergence of research hotspots and frontiers at different times, and is a key indicator of hotspots and emerging trends in the research field. [41,42] To better understand the temporal trends of the study topics, we used CiteSpace to analyze the topic burst keywords, as shown in Figure 5. The first 15 bursts of keywords were selected, and all keywords had an intensity of more than 4.…”