RT Journal Article
T1 [Influence of the companion in Primary Care consultations on communication skills and interview time].
T2 Influencia del acompañante en las consultas de Atención Primaria sobre las habilidades en comunicación y el tiempo de entrevista.
A1 Pérez-Milena, Alejandro
A1 Zafra-Ramírez, Natalia
A1 Ramos-Ruiz, Juan Andrés
A1 Rodríguez-Bayón, Antonina
A1 Zafra-Ramírez, Javier
K1 Administración de la práctica médica
K1 Atención Primaria de Salud
K1 Caregivers
K1 Cuidadores
K1 Decision making, shared
K1 Practice management, Medical
K1 Primary Health Care
K1 Professional–family relations
K1 Relaciones profesional-familia
K1 Toma de decisiones conjunta
AB To know the influence of the companion in triadic clinical encounter on the quality of doctor-patient communication and the duration of the interview. Cross-sectional descriptive study. 10 Primary Care Centers. Resident doctors of Family and Community Medicine. Peer review of video recordings of clinical demand consultations. CICAA-2 questionnaire to assess communication skills (improvable, acceptable or adequate); age and sex, reasons for consultation and duration of the interview. Bivariate and multivariate analyses. Ethical authorization, oral informed consent and custody of the video recordings. 73 RD (53.8% women, 32.9±7.7 years) participated with 260 interviews (60.3% women and 2.1±1.0 clinical demands). 27.7% of consultations with a companion (female sex 65.3%). The mean duration of the interviews was 8.5±4.0min. Clinical encounters lasted longer when a companion attended (2.7±0.5min more; p Triadic communications challenge the clinician's communication skills, improving their abilities to identify and understand patient problems, albeit at the cost of a greater investment of time.
YR 2022
FD 2022-06-29
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/21976
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/21976
LA es
DS RISalud
RD Apr 6, 2025