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Patients' and physicians' opinions' evaluation of mutual trust
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2008-05-14 |
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The relevance of the problem. A strong connection exists between patients' preferred involvement in medical care and trust in the health professionals. Patients' trust in physicians and in the health professionals isvital for a successful patient-physician relationship. Trust is especiallysalient in critical medical situations. The aimof the study is to compare the opinions patients abouttrest in physicians and the opinion of physicians in mutual trust. Material and methods. From November 2006 to February 2007, a survey was performed in seven randomly selected hospitals of two counties of Lithuania, three of these hospitals belong to the network of Health Promoting Hospitals. The study included all patients who on the day of the inquiry were undergoing treatment in the departments of internal diseases and surgery, as well as all physicians who were working in these departments on that day. The exclusion criteria were severe health condition and recent admission to the department. In total, 494 questionnaires were distributed; 366 of them were distributed among patients (response rate was 71.3%) and 128 among physicians (response rate was 70.3%). [...] Conclusion. Patients evaluated their trust in physicians very highly. Both physicians’ and patients’ mutual communication evaluated positively.