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Observational studyThe Journal of ambulatory care management

Patient and Physician Race and the Allocation of Time and Patient Engagement Efforts to Mental Health Discussions in Primary Care: An Observational Study of Audiorecorded Periodic Health Examinations.

Patricia K Foo, Richard M Frankel, Thomas G McGuire, Alan M Zaslavsky, Jennifer Elston Lafata, Ming Tai-Seale

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Patricia K FooDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Foo); Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Research Institute, Palo Alto, California (Dr Tai-Seale); Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis (Dr Frankel); Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (Drs McGuire and Zaslavsky); and Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Dr Lafata).
Richard M Frankel
Thomas G McGuire
Alan M Zaslavsky
Jennifer Elston Lafata
Ming Tai-Seale

Funding

PHYSICIAN RECOMMENDATION AND COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENINGR01CA112379 · NCI · HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM · PI ELSTON LAFATA, JENNIFER M · 2006 to 2009
$1.7M
Mental Health Communication in Elderly Primary Care Visits and Economic OutcomesR01MH081098 · NIMH · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CTR · PI TAI-SEALE, MING · 2009 to 2010
$1.0M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA112379NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH081098
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study investigated racial differences in patient-physician communication around mental health versus biomedical issues. Data were collected from audiorecorded periodic health examinations of adults with mental health needs in the Detroit area (2007-2009). Patients and their primary care physicians conversed for twice as long, and physicians demonstrated greater empathy during mental health topics than during biomedical topics. This increase varied by patient and physician race. Patient race predicted physician empathy, but physician race predicted talk time. Interventions to improve mental health communication could be matched to specific populations based on the separate contributions of patient and physician race.

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CommunicationMental HealthPatient ParticipationPhysician-Patient RelationsPrimary Health CareTime ManagementEthnicityFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRacial GroupsTape Recording

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PMID28350633
PMCPMC5453836

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