Trial reportBMC health services research2020
Communication skills training for physicians improves health literacy and medical outcomes among patients with hypertension: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in BMC health services research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06182475 (Increasing Equity in Live Donor Kidney Transplantation Through Effective Patient-Provider Communication), which is not on this map. Cited by 109 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Increasing Equity in Live Donor Kidney Transplantation Through Effective Patient-Provider Communication
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109 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 231 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A quasi-experimental study to improve health service quality: implementing communication and self-efficacy skills training to primary healthcare workers in two counties in Iran.BMC medical education · 2021Trial
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- Evaluating Student Communication Skills in a Simulation Setting: A Trends Analysis.Journal of dental education · 2026Article
- Association Between Health Literacy and Prehypertension in South Korean Adults: Cross-Sectional Study Using the 2023 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2026Article
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- Formative rather than performative: enduring impact of an alternate pathway (QuARMS) to medicine.Canadian medical education journal · 2025Article
- Enhancing self-regulated learning: a comparison of medical students' self-assessment and faculty evaluations on communication skills in simulated patient interviews.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Enhancing User-Interviewing During Design Thinking: Leveraging Clinical Communication Skills to Augment the Student-Innovator's Toolkit.Medical science educator · 2025Article
- Learning in the moment: simulated patients' engagement in students' meaningful learning during communication training-a stimulated recall study.Advances in simulation (London, England) · 2025Article
- Prevalence of Patient Knowledge Gaps Regarding the Purpose of Their Cardiometabolic Medications.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- Utilization of usual source of care and health literacy among older adults with hypertension: a retrospective study.Innovation in aging · 2025Article
- Empathy training via Kalamazoo Consensus in remote and in-person medical communication: A randomized controlled trial.PEC innovation · 2025Article
- Chronic Illness Self-Management Latent Profiles in Individuals With Comorbid Type 2 Diabetes and Hypertension.The science of diabetes self-management and care · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundImproving the training of physicians about communication skills and patient health literacy (HL) is a major priority that remains an open question. We aimed to examine the effectiveness of communication skills training for physicians on the hypertension outcomes and the health literacy skills, self-efficacy and medication adherence in patients with uncontrolled blood pressure (BP).
methodsA randomized, controlled trial method was conducted on 240 hypertensive patients and 35 physicians presenting to healthcare clinics in the Mashhad, Iran, from 2013 to 2014. Using stratified blocking with block sizes of 4 and 6, eligible patients with uncontrolled blood pressure were randomly allocated to the intervention and control groups. Physicians in the intervention group received educational training over 3 sessions of Focus -Group Discussion and 2 workshops. The control group received the routine care. The primary outcome was a reduction in systolic and diastolic BP from baseline to 6 months. The secondary outcome was promoting HL skills in hypertensive patients. Data were analyzed using the regression model and bivariate tests.
resultsAfter the physician communication training, there was a significant improvement in physicians-patient communication skills, hypertension outcomes, medication adherence, and self-efficacy among the patients being managed by the physicians receiving training, compared to the control group.
conclusionThe educational intervention leads to better BP control; it may have been sufficient training of physicians change to impact counseling, HL and self-efficacy and adherence. The quality of physician-patient communication is an important modifiable element of medical communication that may influences health outcomes in hypertensive Iranian patients.
trial registrationIranian Registry of Clinical Trials (IRCT), IRCT20160710028863N24. Registered April 4, 2018 [retrospectively registered].
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