作者
Melanie Neumann, Markus Wirtz, Elfriede Bollschweiler, Stewart W Mercer, Mathias Warm, Jürgen Wolf, Holger Pfaff
发表日期
2007/12/1
期刊
Patient education and counseling
卷号
69
期号
1-3
页码范围
63-75
出版商
Elsevier
简介
OBJECTIVE
The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to explore patient- and physician-specific determinants of physician empathy (PE) and to analyse the influence of PE on patient-reported long-term outcomes in German cancer patients.
METHODS
A postal survey was administered to 710 cancer patients, who had been inpatients at the University Hospital Cologne (response rate 49.5%). PE was measured with the German translation of the consultation and relational empathy (CARE) measure, and patient-reported long-term outcomes were assessed using the major (ICD-10) depression inventory (MDI) and the EORTC quality of life (Qol) questionnaire QLQ-C30. Hypotheses were tested by structural equation modelling.
RESULTS
PE had (a) a moderate indirect effect on “depression” and a smaller indirect effect on “socio-emotional-cognitive Qol” by affecting “desire for more information from the …
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