Patient Gender Preferences in a Large Military Teaching Hospital

Lund, Jon; Rohrer, James E.; Goldfarb, Susana

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“…The most important consideration for female patients obviously is to receive a professional and competent service [8,12]. The majority of women expressed no preference to either gender of their obstetrician and gynaecologists, but signiWcant proportion of the remainder would prefer to see a female doctor given the choice.…”

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Do women seeking care from obstetrician–gynaecologists prefer to see a female or a male doctor?

Makam

Saroja

Edwards

2009

Arch Gynecol Obstet

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Purpose To examine whether women seeking care from obstetrician-gynaecologists prefer to see a female or a male doctor or have no preference. Methods Five hundred consecutive women attending gynaecology and antenatal clinics were asked to complete a survey questionnaire containing 12 items requiring opinion on whether they want to be seen by a female or male obstetrician-gynaecologist or have no preference. It also contained questions regarding their reasons for the stated preference. Results Of the consecutive 500 patients that were given the questionnaire, 435 responded (87% response rate). Two hundred and twenty-Wve patients had no preference, 194 patients preferred female obstetrician-gynaecologist and 16 patients preferred male obstetrician-gynaecologist. The reasons stated by women who preferred to see a female doctor were as follows: religious beliefs-5%, understands problems better-48%, unspeciWed reasons-6%, issues of personal modesty-41%. All 16 women who preferred to see a male doctor stated the reason as 'understands problems better' (100%). Conclusions The majority of women expressed no preference to either gender of their obstetrician and gynaecologists, but signiWcant proportion of the remainder would prefer to see a female doctor when given the choice. Although women gave a variety of subjective reasons for this, demographically it appears that women who are less educated with lower income and being non-white are more likely to prefer to see a female doctor.

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Do women seeking care from obstetrician–gynaecologists prefer to see a female or a male doctor?

Makam

Saroja

Edwards

2009

Arch Gynecol Obstet

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“…Although women were encouraged to enter the workforce when Chairman Mao seized power in 1949 and saw women as “holding up half of the sky”, the stereotypical attitudes toward gender roles persist due to the thousands of years of influence of the Confucius philosophy. Interestingly, a study in California in the USA also demonstrated a higher degree of patient satisfaction with male doctors [ 65 ].…”

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Patient satisfaction and gender composition of physicians - a cross-sectional study of community health services in Hubei, China

Xiong

Chen

Zhao

et al. 2018

BMC Health Serv Res

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BackgroundPatient satisfaction is associated with both individual (patients and health workers) and organizational (health facilities) characteristics. This study aimed to establish a link between patient satisfaction and gender composition of physicians in community health service (CHS) organizations.MethodsParticipants were selected through multistage stratified random sampling: 36 CHS centers were selected from six municipalities in Hubei, China. All physicians on duty and patients visiting the CHS during the study period (from April to October in 2015) were invited to participate in this study: 324 physicians and 865 patients completed a questionnaire survey. Multilevel linear regression analyses were performed to determine the associations of patient satisfaction (scored from 1 to 5) with patient characteristics (gender, age, education, income, medical expense, frequency of visits to the CHS) and organizational features of the CHS (sex ratio of physicians, and gender differences of physicians in education and job satisfaction).ResultsOlder patients and those with a higher medical bill had a lower degree of satisfaction (p < 0.05). At the organizational level: a higher proportion of male physicians weakened the negative association between patient age and patient satisfaction (p < 0.05); a larger gap in university qualifications between male and female physicians exacerbated the negative association between patient age and patient satisfaction (p < 0.05).ConclusionsThe gender composition of physicians in CHSs is associated with patient satisfaction in the Chinese context: a larger gap (in number and qualifications) between male and female physicians is associated with higher patient satisfaction. Further studies are needed to explore the cultural roots of such an association.

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“…In fact, the majority of studies examining this issue have shown that gender is not the primary characteristic emphasized by women patients when selecting their obstetrician-gynecologist. [13][14][15][16][17] In most of these studies, the majority of the women patients surveyed described no gender preference [13][14][15] and no difference in patient satisfaction based on physician gender. 14 Even when a slight preference for female gender was noted, the women emphasized physician experience and interpersonal= communication styles over gender.…”

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The Effect of Student Gender on the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship Experience

Chang

Odrobina²,

McIntyre‐Seltman

2010

Journal of Women's Health

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Male students were more likely to experience gender bias from patients on the obstetrics and gynecology service. Male students also described feeling socially excluded from female-dominated clinical teams. Obstetrics and gynecology educators need to consider methods of encouraging patients to accept medical student participation regardless of gender. Obstetrics and gynecology faculty and residents need to be sensitive to subtle forms of gender bias and ensure equal inclusion for both male and female medical students.

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Patient Gender Preferences in a Large Military Teaching Hospital

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Cited by 14 publications

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Do women seeking care from obstetrician–gynaecologists prefer to see a female or a male doctor?

Do women seeking care from obstetrician–gynaecologists prefer to see a female or a male doctor?

Patient satisfaction and gender composition of physicians - a cross-sectional study of community health services in Hubei, China

The Effect of Student Gender on the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship Experience

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