Publications by authors named "Aniek van Duijnhoven"

Background: Many general practitioners (GPs) experience communication problems in medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) consultations as they are insufficiently equipped with adequate communication skills or do not apply these in MUS consultations.

Objective: To define the most important learnable communication elements during MUS consultations according to MUS patients, GPs, MUS experts and teachers and to explore how these elements should be taught to GPs and GP trainees.

Methods: Five focus groups were conducted with homogeneous groups of MUS patients, GPs, MUS experts and teachers.

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