Models of Relationship between Physicians and Patients Referring to the Clinic of Isfahan Shahid Beheshti Hospital, 2007
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Background and Objective

An appropriate relationship between a physician and a patient will lead to earning patients’ trust, prevention of frequent referrals to multiple physicians and patients’ bewilderment, and lastly, it results in saving time and money. Hence, this study was conducted to determine the dominant model of relationship between physicians and patients according to patients’ opinion.

Methods

In this cross-sectional study, 305 patients who, for the first time, referred to the physicians of the clinic of Isfahan Shahid Beheshti Hospital for their recent illness were recruited. Data was collected using a researcher-made questionnaire including 10 general and 19 attitude-assessing questions. The questionnaire’s reliability and validity were already confirmed.

Results

The dominant models of relationship between patients and physicians were guidance-cooperation (86.5%), active-passive (11.1%), and mutual participation (2.4%), in order of frequency. There was no significant difference between the relationship model and the patients’ educational or social class. Guidance-cooperation and active-passive models were significantly more frequent in older and younger individuals, respectively (P=0.047).

Conclusion

According to mutual participation model (the most effective model of relationship between physicians and patients) and considering its low frequency in our study, we can conclude that enhancing patients’ awareness about their health status, and encouraging them to participate in the treatment process (which results in increasing both sides’ responsibility for a common goal) would improve the relationship between physicians and patients. Having earned both physicians and patients’ trust, all mentioned issues would finally facilitate health access.

Language:
Persian
Published:
Strides in Development of Medical Education, Volume:6 Issue: 2, 2010
Page:
149
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