Does a home-based interview with a chronically ill patient help medical students become more patient-centred? A randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While patient-centred care improves patient outcomes, studies have shown that medical students become less patient-centred with time, so it is crucial to devise interventions that prevent this. We sought to determine whether first-year medical students who had a structured home-based interview with a chronically ill patient became more patient-centred than those who had a sham intervention.

Methods

This randomised controlled trial assigned first-year students from the University of Bern, Switzerland, to either an interview with a chronically ill patient at the patient's home or to a sham comparator. We used the PPOS-D12 questionnaire to measure students' levels of patient-centredness at baseline, and changes in these levels during their longitudinal primary care c

SUBMITTER: Harris M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7353797 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature