Assertiveness in physicians' interpersonal professional encounters: A scoping review.

Purpose: Good relationships between physicians, patients, families and the healthcare team are essential for high-quality care. Medical encounters are sometimes challenging. They may include conflicts, requiring physicians to be assertive: that is to share and protect their needs, rights and values while preserving those of others.

The hidden curriculum of breaking bad news: Identification of three dimensions and four communication patterns.

Objectives: To explore students' observations in the hidden curriculum of physicians' breaking bad news interactions and identify dimensions and patterns within them.

Methods: We qualitatively analyzed 156 written narrative descriptions of bad news encounters in the clinics written by senior medical students.

Results: The analysis identified three dimensions within the encounters: providing information, dealing with emotions, and discussing treatment plans.

A New Tool for Determining and Monitoring Public Healthcare Systems.

The challenge of maintaining a standard of treatment has become a core issue due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and many countries are currently addressing this issue. Since public health policymaking is a multidimensional issue, including different aspects, measures, features, and scales, and so forth, multidimensional definitions of reasonable medical treatments may improve planning and performance standards for public health systems. This study emphasizes the need to settle all of the dimensions in policymaking to aim to elicit reasonable medical treatment definitions and adequacy assessments from diverse healthcare stakeholders and offer a universally applicable reasonable medical treatment formula.

The comorbidity between autism spectrum disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder is mediated by brooding rumination.

Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by social communication difficulties and restricted repetitive behaviors. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder are often diagnosed with other psychiatric conditions, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, and depression. However, research on post-traumatic stress disorder among individuals with autism spectrum disorder is scarce.

Addressing the Needs of Preschool Children in the Context of Disasters and Terrorism: Assessment, Prevention, and Intervention.

Purpose Of Review: The goal of this paper is to review the research literature regarding the needs of preschoolers in the context of disasters and terrorism with the aim of understanding the existing methods for assessment, prevention, and intervention to provide recommendations and point out required research and development.

Recent Findings: We differentiate between screening tools that provide initial evaluation and assessment tools for diagnosing preschooler children's pathology and review possible interventions that address the preschool child's needs before, during, and after the incident itself. We also emphasize the lack of dissemination and research of prevention programs and mass interventions for preschoolers.