Does the white coat influence satisfaction, trust and empathy in the doctor-patient relationship in the General and Family Medicine consultation? Interventional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To understand the influence of the white coat on patient satisfaction, opinions about medical clothing, perception about confidence, empathy and medical knowledge and the satisfaction and comfort level of physicians in consultation.

Setting

An interventional study was conducted with a representative sample of the population attending primary care in central Portugal.

Participants

The sample was composed by 286 patients divided into two groups exposed or not to a doctor wearing a white coat. The first and last patients in consultation every day for 10 consecutive days were included.

Interventions

Every other day the volunteer physicians consulted with or without the use of a white coat. At the end of the consultation, a questionnaire was distributed t

SUBMITTER: Marques Caetano Carreira L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8705075 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature