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KMID : 1031020170230020057
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Quality Improvement in Health Care
2017 Volume.23 No. 2 p.57 ~ p.66
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Patient’s Characteristics Influencing Patient’s Comprehensibleness of Doctor’s Explanation
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Kim Mi-Young
Kim Yu-Jeong
Lee Eun-Mi
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the patient’s characteristics influencing patient’s comprehensibleness of doctor’s explanation.
Methods: This study was conducted as a secondary data analysis using the raw data of The 6th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES Ⅵ) conducted in 2015. The survey sampled 22,948 adults, and 4,469 of them were included in this analysis. Multiple regression analysis was performed to determine the patient’s characteristics influencing patient’s comprehensibleness of doctor’s explanation.
Results: The patient’s comprehensibleness of doctor’s explanation were more higher as age (t=5.65, p<.001), female (t=4.40, p<.001), subjective good health status (t=3.48, p=.001) were higher. On the other hand, the patient’s comprehensibleness of doctor’s explanation were more higher education level (t=-6.80, p<.001), not-recent outpatient experience (t=-6.04, p<.001), pain/discomfort (t=-2.64, p=.008), anxiety/depression (t=-2.58, p=.010) were lower.
Conclusion: It is necessary to be provided the patients who are higher education level, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression with applying the doctor’s detailed explanation and intervention programs.
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KEYWORD
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Health communication, Patient safety, Comprehension
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