The influence of a question prompt list on patient-oncologist information exchange in an African-American population.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Question Prompt Lists (QPL) increase patient active participation in oncology interactions, but questions remain regarding how QPLs influence patient-oncologist information exchange. We examined how a QPL influenced information exchange during oncology interactions with African-American patients.

Methods

Data were self-reports and video recordings from a parent study testing the effects of a QPL in the outpatient clinics of two urban cancer hospitals. In this secondary analysis, we investigated which QPL questions patients identified as ones they wanted to ask their oncologists, how frequently patients/companions used patient active participation statements to seek information related to each QPL question, whether oncologists provided QPL-related information unpro

SUBMITTER: Barton E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7720840 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature