Patient-Centered Communication in Telehealth Settings.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patient-centered communication (PCC) is key to high-quality health care but remains understudied in telehealth visits.

Objectives

To examine associations between individual-level characteristics and optimal levels of 7 PCC items and to assess whether these associations differ by county-level vulnerability to public health emergencies per the Minority Health Social Vulnerability Index (MHSVI).

Design, setting, and participants

This was a cross-sectional, online survey of a nonprobability sample of adults, 18 years of age or older, who resided in MHSVI least- or most-vulnerable US counties. Data were collected between February 23 and August 26, 2022, and analyzed between January 10 and May 5, 2025.

Exposures

Participant characteristics and county-level

SUBMITTER: Tesfaye L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12856684 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature