Predicting diagnoses from illness experiences with common cold symptoms before physician consultation: a mixed-methods research.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aimed to explore whether patients' illness experiences with common cold symptoms could help with predicting the final diagnosis before consultation.

Design

Exploratory sequential design of mixed methods: Qualitative and quantitative studies used inductive qualitative content analysis and multinomial regression analysis, respectively.

Setting

Consecutive patients at the primary care clinic of a general hospital.

Participants

New patients aged 15 years or older were included in the study. Of the 1512 eligible patients who received the questionnaire sheet, 408 selected the common cold as their reason for visiting. All 408 patients responded to the questionnaire.

Main outcome measures

First, factors representing illness experiences in patients

SUBMITTER: Mizoe A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8987796 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature