The effect of patient-centered communication on medication intake: an experimental study

Development and Pilot-Testing of Key Questions to Identify Patients’ Difficulties in Medication Administration

“…To the best of our knowledge, there currently exists no approach describing the development of such specific questions for implementation in patient consultations during primary care, although the use and evaluation of purpose-fitted communication techniques such as patient-centered interviewing or motivational interviewing are subject of current research. [21][22][23][24][25] Furthermore, the development and evaluation of written patient information has already been described in the literature. [26][27][28] Therefore, we based the development process on the experiences made with a previously described approach to develop comprehensible patient leaflets, that combined desk-based and patient-centered measures 26 and, consequently, focused on the inclusion of the real-world users of such key questions, namely patients and health-care professionals.…”