Primary care physicians' views on the factors for enhancing patients' trust in rural areas of Zhejiang province, China: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine primary care physicians' (PCPs) perception of patients' trust and associated factors for enhancing perceived trust in rural China.

Design

A cross-sectional questionnaire study.

Setting

All township health centres (primary care facilities in rural areas of China) in both developed and less developed counties of Zhejiang province, China, were chosen as the study sites.

Participants

A total of 849 questionnaires were distributed from December 2019 to January 2020, and 673 PCPs working in township health centres completed the questionnaires. The response rate was 79.3%.

Outcome measures

PCPs' perceived patients' trust in them, PCPs' practices to meet patients' expectations and PCPs' perceived conflicting patient and employer interests w

SUBMITTER: Cai J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8317079 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature