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How should uncertainty about upcoming painful procedures be communicated? An experimental study into highly uncertain pain predictions.
Patient Educ Couns
January 2024
Health, Medical and Neuropsychology Unit, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands. Electronic address:
Objective: Uncertainty is unavoidable in the context of painful medical procedures. It is important to investigate the impact of different ways of communicating uncertainty on upcoming pain.
Methods: In our exploratory study, healthy participants (n = 30) were repeatedly presented with three highly uncertain pain predictions communicated by a hypothetical doctor.
Pre-consultation information about one's physician can affect trust and treatment outcome expectations.
Patient Educ Couns
February 2021
Health, Medical and Neuropsychology Unit, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden, Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Objective: Information about physicians' skills is increasingly available on the internet and consulted by patients. The impact of such information on patient expectations is largely unknown. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether information about the competence and empathic skills of a physician may impact pre-consultation trust and treatment outcome expectations in mild and severe medical conditions.
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