Trial reportJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2019
Finding Common Ground: Can Provider-Patient Race Concordance and Self-disclosure Bolster Patient Trust, Perceptions, and Intentions?
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Experiences of racial discrimination and adverse gene expression among black individuals in a level 1 trauma center sample.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2024Article
- Accounting for the interplay of interpersonal and structural trauma in the treatment of chronic non-cancer pain, opioid use disorder, and mental health in urban safety-net primary care clinics.SSM. Mental health · 2023Article
- "It's Important to Work with People that Look Like Me": Black Patients' Preferences for Patient-Provider Race Concordance.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
- How Pain-Related Facial Expressions Are Evaluated in Relation to Gender, Race, and Emotion.Affective science · 2023Article
- Patient Experience with Their Health Care Provider Among Non-Pregnant Women of Childbearing Age with Diabetes Mellitus by Race and Ethnicity in the United States.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- "We really are seeing racism in the hospitals": Racial identity, racism, and doula care for diverse populations in Georgia.PloS one · 2023Article
- Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Acceptability and Campaign Message Preferences Among African American Parents: a Qualitative Study.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundImprovements in provider-patient relationships may help alleviate health disparities. Provider-patient race concordance and provider self-disclosure are variables that may help improve this relationship. PURPOSE: This study sought to answer if provider-patient race concordance and provider self-disclosure may improve patient trust, rapport, similarity, likeability, intention to disclose, satisfaction, behavioral intention to keep a provider, and intention to recommend a provider, while using empathy as a covariate.
methodsUsing 882 White or Black participants, the current research used a 2 × 2 online experimental design. Participants were asked to read a vignette in which they were told they had borderline high cholesterol and needed to eat a healthier diet, by either a Black or White male physician, who either self-disclosed or did not self-disclose regarding their own struggle to eat a healthy diet. After reading this vignette, participants were surveyed regarding the dependent variables of interest.
resultsParticipants in a Black concordant dyad reported higher levels of similarity than those in any other dyad. Provider self-disclosure led to higher levels of trust, rapport, similarity, likeability, intention to disclose, satisfaction, behavioral intention to continue using the provider, and intention to recommend the provider. No interaction effects were found.
conclusionWhile it is possible, based on past research, that race-concordant pairings may lead to trust via similarity, provider self-disclosure directly increased perceptions of trust as well as providing numerous other benefits. This study supports the importance of trainings for providers on health-related self-disclosure to benefit both parties in provider-patient dyads.
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