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Understanding the role of positive emotions in healthcare communication - A realist review.
Synthesis in Nursing open, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Understanding the role of positive emotions in healthcare communication - A realist review.Nursing open · 2023Pooled it
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- Non-violent communication as a technology in interpersonal relationships in health work: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2024Article
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- Dealing With Rape Cases in Ghana: The Law, the Victim and the Offender.Sexual offending (Trier, Germany) · 2023Review
- Attitudes towards Communication in Nursing Students and Nurses: Are Social Skills and Emotional Intelligence Important?Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A mixed methods evaluation of a World Health Organization competency-based training package for foundational helping skills among pre-service and in-service health workers in Nepal, Peru and Uganda.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- How AI-powered consultation services in internet hospitals influence patient satisfaction: A structural analysis.Digital healthArticle
- Design of a Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial: Strengthening Positive Treatment Expectations Using a Communication Model for Maximized Antiemetic Effects of Acupuncture and Antiemetics During Emetogenic Neo-/Adjuvant Chemotherapy.Integrative cancer therapiesArticle
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Abstract
aimTo explore how the expression of positive emotions during the interaction between patients and providers can cultivate the patient-provider relationship.
designWe conducted a realist review guided by the Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses: Evolving Standards.
methodsWe systematically searched CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsychINFO and Scopus from inception to March 2019. Study selection and data extraction were performed blinded in pairs. From 3146 abstracts blinded in pairs, 15 papers were included and analysed. From each included paper, we extracted contexts, mechanisms and outcomes that were relevant to answer our research questions, creating a configuration between these elements (CMO configuration).
resultsOur findings suggest that in the contexts of person orientation and positive outlook, patient-provider relationships improve by communication conveying and eliciting positive emotions. We found six underlying mechanisms for this that form either direct or indirect pathways between the context and the outcome.
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