Patient and Physician Race and the Allocation of Time and Patient Engagement Efforts to Mental Health Discussions in Primary Care: An Observational Study of Audiorecorded Periodic Health Examinations.
Patient and Physician Race and the Allocation of Time and Patient Engagement Efforts to Mental Health Discussions in Primary Care: An Observational Study of Audiorecorded Periodic Health Examinations.
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10.1097/jac.0000000000000176
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2017
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Tai-Seale M
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Foo PK;Frankel RM;McGuire TG;Zaslavsky AM;Lafata JE;Tai-Seale M
This study investigated racial differences in patient-physician communication around mental health versus biomedical issues. Data were collected from audiorecorded periodic health exams of adults with mental health needs in the Detroit area (2007--2009). Patients and their primary care physicians conversed for twice as long and physicians demonstrated greater empathy during mental health topics compared to biomedical topics. This increase varied by patient and physician race. Patient race predicted physician empathy, but physician race predicted talk time. Interventions to improve mental health communication could be matched to specific populations based on the separate contributions of patient and physician race.
