ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care2024
Mediating role of physician's empathy between physician's communication and patient's satisfaction.
Article in Journal of family medicine and primary care, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Patient Concerns Regarding Artificial Intelligence Applications in Health Care: Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis Based on Social Ecological Theory.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Psychodrama-based versus lecture-based approaches in medical empathy education: a gender-comparative study of effects on empathy traits and communication attitudes.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Article
- Determinants of Patient Satisfaction in a Public University Hospital in Ghana: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach.Health services insights · 2026Article
- Patient satisfaction and disease-related knowledge in otorhinolaryngology outpatient care in Saudi Arabia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Emotional Anatomy of Diagnosis: A Medical Humanities Approach to Empathy in Pathology.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Factors Influencing Emergency Empathy Towards Patients and Their Relatives: A National Survey Study in Türkiye.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Personality Traits and Empathy in Relation to Attitudes About Communication Between Medical Students and Patients.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Time Capsule Medicine: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study on Immersive Simulation for Chronic Disease Education in Medical Students.Clinics and practice · 2025Article
- Bridging the trust gap: the mediating role of patient satisfaction in physician empathy.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- I Want to be Known as a Whole Human Being: A Qualitative Study About Patients' Experiences of Empathy in Health Care.Journal of patient experience · 2025Article
- A mixed-methods study of patient and healthcare professional perceptions of care pathways for knee osteoarthritis.BMC primary care · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Introduction: Physician communication is vital for an effective physician-patient relationship. Physician empathy is crucial to patient communication. The relationship between physician empathy, physician communication, and patient satisfaction is not very clear. This study aims to study the mediating role of physician's empathy between physician's communication, physician's empathy, and patient's satisfaction. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at the National Institute of Psychology, Quaid-i-Azam University, during the time period of December 2018 to February 2019. Employing the technique of purposive convenience sampling, data were collected ( Results: The result shows that a physician's empathy plays a mediating role between the physician's communication skills and patient satisfaction. Moreover, Pearson product-moment correlation indicated a significant positive relationship between doctors' communication skills, doctors' empathy, and patients' satisfaction. Conclusion: Building a positive doctor-patient relationship would not only lead to improved patient satisfaction but also reduce the likelihood of medical malpractice. Therefore, steps should be taken to enforce trust, interaction, and empathy in doctor-patient relationships, with patient-centered services. Physician's empathy plays a mediating role between physician's communication skills and patient's satisfaction.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.