Clinician responses to patient emotions: racial disparities and the impact of provider empathy.
Monkey Business Images/ShutterstockA team of researchers looked at how HIV healthcare providers responded to the emotions of their patients living with HIV during routine clinic visits. Through several analyses, they found that there are racial disparities in how HIV providers respond to patient emotions and cultural differences in how people express their emotions. Also, providers who describe themselves as high in empathy don’t actually respond more empathetically to patients.
Health outcomes are heavily influenced by the relationship and communication between patients and their providers. In previous studies, effective communication has been shown to improve patient satisfaction, treatment adherence, and health outcomes. Good patient-provider communication positively impacts retention in HIV care, and people living with HIV who feel their provider knows them as a person are more likely to be prescribed and be adherent to antiretroviral therapy and more likely to be undetectable.
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Source : Aidsmap
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