Patient-centered communication in type 2 diabetes: The facilitating and constraining factors in clinical encounters.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the perceptions of the constraining and facilitating factors to patient-centered communication in clinical encounters of patients with type 2 diabetes and the providers involved in their care.

Data sources/study setting

Patients (n = 12) and providers (n = 33) involved in diabetes care in northern Portugal.

Study design

Seven focus groups.

Data collection/extraction methods

Grounded theory, using open, axial, and selective coding.

Principal findings

Patients focused on the patient-provider relationship, while providers emphasized the constraining factors when exchanging information and the facilitating factors regarding disease and treatment-related behavior. Patients and providers both agreed on some constraints (power imbalance, av

SUBMITTER: Paiva D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6505418 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature