| Patient reported interpersonal processes of care and perceived social position: The Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE). | |
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PMID: 21855266 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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OBJECTIVE: A patient's sense of his/her standing in the social hierarchy may impact interpersonal processes of care (IPC) within the patient-provider encounter. We investigated the association of perceived social position with patient-reported IPC. METHODS: We used survey data from the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE), studying 11,105 insured patients with diabetes cared for in an integrated healthcare delivery system. Perceived social position was based on the MacArthur subjective social status ladder. Patient-reported IPC was based on a combined scale adapted from the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study provider communication subscale and the Trust in Physicians scale. RESULTS: Lower perceived social position was associated with poorer reported IPC (p<0.001). The relationship remained statistically significant after controlling for age, sex, race/ethnicity, depressive symptoms, physical functioning, income and education. CONCLUSION: Beyond objective measures of SES, patients' sense of where they fall in the social hierarchy may represent a pathway between social position and patient satisfaction with the quality of patient-provider communication in chronic disease. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Interventions to address disparities in communication in primary care should incorporate notions of patients' social position. |
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David Moskowitz; Courtney Rees Lyles; Andrew J Karter; Nancy Adler; Howard H Moffet; Dean Schillinger |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-8-18 |
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Title: Patient education and counseling Volume: - ISSN: 1873-5134 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Aug |
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Created Date: 2011-8-22 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8406280 Medline TA: Patient Educ Couns Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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San Francisco General Hospital Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA. |
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