The effectiveness of a brief workshop tutorial was evaluated by comparing four Family Practice residents who received the intervention with four non-tutored control residents. The content of the tutorial reflected previous research implicating a relationship between interactional behaviors of physicians towards their patients and patient compliance. Didactic, videotape modeling and role play procedures were included in the four-hour tutorial. Assessments were made of both physician and patient interaction behavior, patient compliance, and patient satisfaction. / Results suggest that the tutorial workshop was effective in increasing relevant physician interaction behaviors. These behaviors remained stable throughout a six-month period of assessment. However, relationships between these physician behaviors and patient compliance, patient interaction behavior, and patient satisfaction were not supported by the present results. It is cautioned that inadequacies in the fine grain sensitivity of some assessment measures and the inability to account for potential sources of confounding variance may have impeded the elucidation of existing physician-patient relationships. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-03, Section: B, page: 1128. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74170 |
| Contributors | STEARNS, THOMAS WILSON., The Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 115 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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