Patient Attentiveness Paper
1. Provide an overview of the problem and briefly describe the methodology the study.
The study was aiming to find if the patients’ perception to their physicians’ attentiveness this affect the relation between the physician’s recommendations regarding the diet and the exercises and the obese patients’ general health status.
The study was recruited an ethnic group (from three ethnic groups: Caucasians, Hispanics, and African Americans) from 48 contiguous United States who were surveyed by telephone. The study samples size was N=16,827 (overweight and obese) were aged from 21 and older.
The study variables were: the patient’s ethnics, the recommendations of the health providers, and the patient’s perception of the physician’s attentiveness.
The perceived attentiveness was measured …show more content…
through obtaining the average of the patient’s response to three factors: the physician explanation, the patient respect, and the time the physician take with the patient. The score was ranged from 1-4.
The research dependent variables of the general health status were measured on 5 points scale, where the high number indicates better health.
2. What clinical implications can be drawn from this study?
• The white people revealed better health when compared with African Americans and Hispanics.
• Caucasians showed a significant better health than the African Americans and Hispanics.
• The study found a stronger association between the perceived attentiveness and the health than the physicians’ recommendations and health.
• Caucasians perceived significantly more attentiveness than African Americans and Hispanics
3.
What challenges, if any, have you encountered in delivering health care to a person with cultural views different than your own? Have you noticed differences in how you interact with people of different cultures?
Cultural and behavioral issues could stay as one of the main challenges in delivering the most optimal health care for my patients, where these cultural differences could results in poor communications between me as a health provider and the patient and unsatisfactory treatment results.
The main challenges that I encounter during my practice are: the patient’s beliefs toward the governmental health service, the education and perception level of the patients, language, and trust.
In my practice, despite the trails of using a specific character when dealing with different cultures, I have noticed that the interaction with my patients differs according to the patient culture. Honestly, the interaction is a bit higher with those patients who show a high level of seriousness in gaining the optimal treatment, the high educational level, and those who show a trust of me as a health
provider.
The study was aiming to find if the patients’ perception to their physicians’ attentiveness this affect the relation between the physician’s recommendations regarding the diet and the exercises and the obese patients’ general health status.
The study was recruited an ethnic group (from three ethnic groups: Caucasians, Hispanics, and African Americans) from 48 contiguous United States who were surveyed by telephone. The study samples size was N=16,827 (overweight and obese) were aged from 21 and older.
The study variables were: the patient’s ethnics, the recommendations of the health providers, and the patient’s perception of the physician’s attentiveness.
The perceived attentiveness was measured …show more content…
through obtaining the average of the patient’s response to three factors: the physician explanation, the patient respect, and the time the physician take with the patient. The score was ranged from 1-4.
The research dependent variables of the general health status were measured on 5 points scale, where the high number indicates better health.
2. What clinical implications can be drawn from this study?
• The white people revealed better health when compared with African Americans and Hispanics.
• Caucasians showed a significant better health than the African Americans and Hispanics.
• The study found a stronger association between the perceived attentiveness and the health than the physicians’ recommendations and health.
• Caucasians perceived significantly more attentiveness than African Americans and Hispanics
3.
What challenges, if any, have you encountered in delivering health care to a person with cultural views different than your own? Have you noticed differences in how you interact with people of different cultures?
Cultural and behavioral issues could stay as one of the main challenges in delivering the most optimal health care for my patients, where these cultural differences could results in poor communications between me as a health provider and the patient and unsatisfactory treatment results.
The main challenges that I encounter during my practice are: the patient’s beliefs toward the governmental health service, the education and perception level of the patients, language, and trust.
In my practice, despite the trails of using a specific character when dealing with different cultures, I have noticed that the interaction with my patients differs according to the patient culture. Honestly, the interaction is a bit higher with those patients who show a high level of seriousness in gaining the optimal treatment, the high educational level, and those who show a trust of me as a health
provider.