Interpersonal Skills

Topic

Study

Details

Evaluation

Application

The problem

Battenburg and Gerritsma 1983

Student doctors

 

 

Going to the doctor

Scambler and Scambler 1984

Lay consultations

 

 

 

Pitts 1991

Reasons for going to the doctor

 

 

Patient satisfaction

Kent and Dalgleish 1996

Patient satisfaction

 

 

 

Scarpaci 1988

Manner more important than technical care

 

 

 

BenSira 1980

Patients are poor judges

 

 

 

Johnson et al 1988

Doctor uncertainty

 

 

 

Barnett 2002

Surgeons are brusque

 

 

 

Cartwright and Windsor 1992

Patients want more info

 

 

Listening skills

Beckman and Frankel 1984

Patient not allowed to finish talking

 

Active listening

Non-verbal communication

Birdwhistell 1970

Up to 35% of meaning conveyed by words alone

 

 

 

Argyle 1975

4 major uses (Try the activity)

 

 

 

Zuckerman et al 1981

Facial expressions and emotion

 

Controlling facial expressions

 

McKinstry and Wang 1991

Dress

 

 

Touch

Jourard 1966

Where people touch each other

 

 

 

Jourard 1966

Cultural differences

 

 

 

Davitz and Davitz  1985

American perception of British nurses

 

 

 

Whitcher and Fisher 1979

Effects of nurses touching patients

Field experiment

 

Questioning

 

 

 

 

Closed questions

Try the activity

 

 

 

Open questions

Jesudason 1976

 

 

 

Affective questions

 

 

 

 

Probing questions

 

 

 

 

Leading questions

Loftus 1975

Frequent vs. occasionally

 

 

Directed vs. Sharing consultations

Savage and Armstrong 1990

 

 

 

Use of Video

Maguire and Rutter 1976

 

 

Video feedback