The commonwealth fund women's health survey: Selected results and comments

Pearse, Warren H.

doi:10.1016/s1049-3867(05)80108-2

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“…Women in our study had higher disclosure rates (68.9%) than in previous studies: 21% in Pearse's (1994) study and 9% in the 1993 Melbourne study (Miller, Thow, Hall, & Martin, 2005). Several factors might account for this difference.…”

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confidence: 62%

Health Professionals' Responses to Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse History: Female Child Sexual Abuse Survivors' Experiences

McGregor

Jülich

Glover

et al. 2010

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse

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This study reports on a postal questionnaire, conducted in 2004, with female survivors of historic child sexual abuse. The questionnaire explored their experiences of health professionals' responsiveness to disclosure of child sexual abuse history. Of 61 participants, aged between 22 and 65, 69% had disclosed to health professionals. Those who had not disclosed reported that they would have liked to but were not asked about child sexual abuse. Thirty-five percent of participants suggested routine questioning about child sexual abuse. Most participants related a fear of common medical examination procedures to their experience of child sexual abuse, and 64% said this stopped them from attending regular health checks. The current study suggests the development of guidelines for dealing with possible child sexual abuse survivors would be useful for health professionals.

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Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 62%

Health Professionals' Responses to Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse History: Female Child Sexual Abuse Survivors' Experiences

McGregor

Jülich

Glover

et al. 2010

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse

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“…The behavior of my wife as far as her patient preferences are concerned is in line with empirical research not only for gynecology [11,12], but women described gender concordance as important to their relationships also with primary care physicians [24].…”

Section: Do Female and Male Patients Get Different Diagnostic And Thementioning

confidence: 62%

“…The authors concluded: ''We do not suggest that all or even most female physicians are patient-centered and male physicians are not; there is far more common ground than differences in the communication behaviors of male and female physicians.'' [10] The behavior of my wife to prefer a female gynecologist is in line with the results of empirical research [11,12]. However, she should re-evaluate her choice for a female gynecologist: male gynecologists show more patient-centeredness such as higher levels of emotionally focused talk than their female colleagues [13,14].…”

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confidence: 58%

Does gender have an influence on the patient-physician communication?

Kiss¹

2004

The Journal of Men's Health & Gender

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Does gender have an influence on the patient-physician communication? Obviously yes is the answer, but this influence may be quite different depending on the specific circumstances in the patient-physician encounter. In this review the starting point are the differences in male and female communication in general. Furthermore the literature regarding the question if female and male physicians communicate differently with their patients will be discussed. Another topic is the question if patients talk differently to male and female physicians and if men and women communicate differently with their physician. Recently the question if female and male patients get different diagnostic and therapeutic procedures has gained much interest. There are few data answering the question if gender dyads (e.g. female patient-female doctor) have specific communication patterns. Very little is known about how being gay or lesbian influences patientphysician communication.

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“…As several studies have documented especially strong patient preferences for female physicians in gynecologic and obstetric care (14,46), male physicians may feel pressure to meet the increasing competitive challenge 512 ROTER HALL of growing numbers of female physicians by enhancing their own interpersonal skills (20,53). If this is the case, it would suggest that physicians are capable of modifying their communication style given sufficient motivation and incentive.…”

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Physician Gender and Patient-Centered Communication: A Critical Review of Empirical Research

Roter

Hall

2004

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Key Words literature review, physician-patient communication, meta-analysis, physician-patient relationship, medical dialogue s Abstract Physician gender has stimulated a good deal of interest as a possible source of variation in the interpersonal aspects of medical practice, with speculation that female physicians are more patient-centered in their communication with patients. Our objective is to synthesize the results of two meta-analytic reviews the effects of physician gender on communication in medical visits within a communication framework that reflects patient-centeredness and the functions of the medical visit. We performed online database searches of English-language abstracts for the years 1967 to 2001 (MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, PsycINFO, and BIOETHICS), and a hand search was conducted of reprint files and the reference sections of review articles and other publications. Studies using a communication data source such as audiotape, videotape, or direct observation were identified through bibliographic and computerized searches. Medical visits with female physicians were, on average, two minutes (10%) longer than those of male physicians. During this time, female physicians engaged in significantly more communication that can be considered patient-centered. They engaged in more active partnership behaviors, positive talk, psychosocial counseling, psychosocial question asking, and emotionally focused talk. Moreover, the patients of female physicians spoke more overall, disclosed more biomedical and psychosocial information, and made more positive statements to their physicians than did the patients of male physicians. Obstetrics and gynecology may present a pattern different from that of primary care: Male physicians demonstrated higher levels of emotionally focused talk than their female colleagues. Female primary care physicians and their patients engaged in more communication that can be considered patient-centered and had longer visits than did their male colleagues. Limited studies exist outside of primary care, and gender-related practice patterns might differ in some subspecialties from those evident in primary care.

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The commonwealth fund women's health survey: Selected results and comments

Cited by 23 publications

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Health Professionals' Responses to Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse History: Female Child Sexual Abuse Survivors' Experiences

Health Professionals' Responses to Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse History: Female Child Sexual Abuse Survivors' Experiences

Does gender have an influence on the patient-physician communication?

Physician Gender and Patient-Centered Communication: A Critical Review of Empirical Research

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