Perceiver gender and patient diagnosis: Two aspects of perceptions of medical patients

Kn, Hardin; Bj, Hailey

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“…The instrument has been used to differentiate respondents' attitudes toward patients with breast cancer from their attitudes toward patients with other diagnoses (Hardin & Hailey, 1990) and has demonstrated adequate reliability (McNair et al, 1971). All respondents were asked to indicate on the POMS how they thought the woman in the vignette would feel.…”

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“…The second instrument was an attitude/behavior questionnaire developed by Hailey (1989) that has been used in a series of studies to differentiate responses toward patients with physical illnesses (Hailey & Hardin, 1988;Hailey & Lalor, 1990;Hardin & Hailey, 1990). It consists of 10 questions in which respondents predict how they would behave around the patient and the likelihood that the patient would experience different types of problems in the future.…”

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Health care professionals’ perceptions of seriously ill women

Hardin¹,

Hailey

1993

Health Care for Women International

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Physicians, psychologists, and nurses read one of four vignettes describing a woman who had received one of four diagnoses--breast cancer, lung cancer, heart attack, or severe burn--and indicated on the Profile of Mood States (McNair, Lorr, & Droppleman, 1971) how they perceived the woman had been feeling during the past week. They then answered 10 questions about the woman's recovery and about their own anticipated behaviors while interacting with her. A number of differences emerged between professional groups in terms of their expectations for patients regardless of diagnosis. In addition, respondents held different emotional expectations for the patient, based solely on her diagnosis. These results support the need for training health care professionals to recognize psychological distress in, and appropriately refer, seriously ill women.

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Health care professionals’ perceptions of seriously ill women

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Hailey

1993

Health Care for Women International

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“…Hardin et al . performed one of the few studies which targeted the rater problem using multirater design 4 . They showed descriptions of four cases to many normal students and investigated the effects of raters’ gender upon the evaluation of mood state.…”

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“…performed one of the few studies which targeted the rater problem using multirater design. 4 They showed descriptions of four cases to many normal students and investigated the effects of raters' gender upon the evaluation of mood state. The raters' gender had significant effects on their evaluation, despite the strict control of information about the target of evaluation.…”

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Mood profile evaluation by families, young physicians and experienced psychiatrists in an actual clinical practice setting

Ota

Sasaki²,

Yamauchi

2004

Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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The purpose of this study was to explore differences in mood profile evaluation between raters with different backgrounds. Special emphasis was placed on expertise factor, influence of mood categories, and patient heterogeneity in a clinical setting. We administered Profile of Mood Scale (POMS) to patients' families, residents, and experienced psychiatrists as well as the patients, asking them to make an evaluation based on their image of the patients' subjective mood experience. Subscale scores and within-case across-item agreement indices among the raters were submitted for analysis. Analysis of variance of the subscale score showed significant effects of the rater by subscale-category and the rater by case components. The former was most influenced by the Vigor/ Activity subscale in which the families and patients had higher scores than the physicians. As for rater-to-patient correlations of the score, psychiatrists were superior to residents in Anger/Hostility and Fatigue/Inertia, while families were superior to physicians in Vigor/Activity. These results suggest significance of expertise in mood evaluation as well as importance of time shared with the patients. The within-case across-item agreement data were subjected to cluster and canonical discriminant analysis. The analysis revealed four clusters which were best explained by two dimensions, one interpreted as general feasibility of evaluation and the other as characteristic emotional expression which caused separation of evaluation between families and physicians. Rater's expertise is a significant factor. Attention should also be paid to mood categories and patient heterogeneity.

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How breast cancer patients are perceived: Effects of treatment method, age, and time since surgery

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Three hundred undergraduate students read one of 12 vignettes about a hypothetical breast cancer patient, completed the Profile of Mood States (POMS) as they thought she would, and completed a questionnaire (Perception of Medical Patients Questionnaire; PMPQ) designed to elicit their perceptions of her. Vignettes differed according to time since surgery (5 days, 3 months, or 15 months), treatment method (lumpectomy with radiation or mastectomy) and age of the patient (32 or 62 years). As predicted, patients whose surgery occurred most recently were viewed as more distressed than the other patients. Subjects perceived mastectomy patients to have greater sexual problems, be more likely to need counselling, and to be more embarrassed than lumpectomy patients. On the other hand, patients treated with lumpectomy and radiation were rated higher on an index of fatigue than were mastectomy patients. No differences between treatment method were found in terms of the amount of additional emotional support patients would need. Subjects expected younger patients to survive longer and look less ill, but the predicted differences between older and younger patients in terms of likelihood of sexual adjustment problems was not found.

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Perceiver gender and patient diagnosis: Two aspects of perceptions of medical patients

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Health care professionals’ perceptions of seriously ill women

Health care professionals’ perceptions of seriously ill women

Mood profile evaluation by families, young physicians and experienced psychiatrists in an actual clinical practice setting

How breast cancer patients are perceived: Effects of treatment method, age, and time since surgery

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