An exploration of factors promoting patient participation in primary care medical interviews

• In Event: Empowering discourses in medical contexts

Abstract

Street's (2003) Ecological Model of communication in medical encounters was used to select and examine factors from an available data set that potentially promote or retard patient participation. Patient participation was defined as patient information seeking and provision, assertive utterances and expressions of concern. Patient participation discourse scores were used as the dependent variable in a regression analysis with 18 predictors representing personal, organizational, and perceptual factors identified or implied in the Ecological Model.

Author

• Donald Cegala, Ohio State University