Cue-responding in a Simulated Bad News Situation
Exploring a Stress Hypothesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5040182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C De Valck, R Bruynooghe (Limburgs University Centre, Belgium), Jozien M Bensing, J J Kerssens (Netherlands Institute for Primary Health Care, Utrecht, The Netherlands), Robert L Hulsman |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 585-596 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/135910530100600514 |
| PMID | 22049455 |
| OpenAlex | W2127463118 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 30 |
The stress-coping paradigm of Folkman and Lazarus (1984) was applied to investigate if the communicative reactions of the physician in a bad news transaction are related to the stressfulness of the situation. A standardized video bad news consultation was presented to 88 medical students. To examine their communicative reactions we selected 10 patient cues with different levels of expressed emotion to which the participants responded from the physician's point of view. A strongly positive relationship between expressed emotion and perceived difficulty of the cues and a gender effect occurred, confirming that handling emotions is stressful for physicians. The reluctance of physicians to address the emotionally laden issues of the consultation can be understood as a lack of a frame of reference. The problem-solving strategies, which they apply in the instrumental domain of the consultation, are ineffective when dealing with psychosocial suffering
Coping (psychology · Psychiatry · Psychosocial · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Conflict Management and Negotiation · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare · Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Social Psychology
Variance Components
Gender Differences in Coping with Stress
Stress, appraisal, and coping
A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales
Physician Frustration in Communicating with Patients
Reassurance reconsidered
Gender effects in decoding nonverbal cues
Testing a Relational Model for Health Communication Competence among Caregivers for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease
The Analysis of Factorial Surveys
Telling bad news
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2010 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |