Perceived Penalties for Sharing Patient Beliefs with Health Care Providers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health care interactions may require patients to share with a physician information they believe but is incorrect. While a key piece of physicians' work is educating their patients, people's concerns of being seen as uninformed or incompetent by physicians may lead them to think that sharing incorrect health beliefs comes with a penalty. We tested people's perceptions of patients who share incorrect information and how these perceptions vary by the reasonableness of the belief and its centrality to the patient's disease.

Design

We recruited 399 United States Prolific.co workers (357 retained after exclusions), 200 Prolific.co workers who reported having diabetes (139 after exclusions), and 244 primary care physicians (207 after exclusions). Participants read vigne

SUBMITTER: Marsh JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11346123 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature