a. In my opinion, the Social Distance, and Family and Social Environment are most important to influence the relationship between communication and health outcomes for this woman.
The Social Distance, as an intrinsic moderator, refers to the number and importance of dissimilar between physician and patients. In this case, the patient is an Egyptian woman and the physician is White American male. The differences between them are gender and ethnicity, which led the patient feeling embarrassed about the physical examination by taking off clothes. Moreover, this female patient might misunderstand the purpose of this examination.
The Family and Social Environment, as an extrinsic moderator, plays significant role in this issue. According to this …show more content…
It could have positive influence on fostering the physician-patient relationship, and validating and responding to emotions, which are two of the key functions of clinician-patient communication.
Exchanging and managing information is limited by the Clinician Attitudes. If the clinician had prejudice towards Egyptian culture, the relationship between the clinician and patient would be harmed. Patient Preference for Clinician and Patient Roles also influences the patient/provider communication. In this scenario, the female patient can possibly have her own expectation for her role in this visit. After her husband left, she elaborated her condition but embarrassed by the physical examination, which refers that she might expect that the physician could diagnose her without physical examination.
Family and Social Environment impedes this communication between the female patient and the clinician, because her husband dominated this dialogue. The Media Environment could amplify the patient’s mistrust by disseminating the negative news for medical care. In addition, if this health care facility did not perform efficiently and professionally, the patient could be unsatisfied in order to affect the patient/provider …show more content…
According to the Clinician Attitudes towards Patients, it is better to share the understanding of different cultural contexts in order to avoid physician’s negative perceptions of the patient, which refers to cultural sensitivity.
The Patient Preferences for Physicians and Patient Roles could also be various based on cultural contexts. For example, the patient/provider relationship is paternalistic in China under most of the circumstances. Patients would be willing to follow what clinicians say. I think it is similar in Egyptian culture. Therefore, it might effective to lead the conversation and more courage for the patients on decision making is required.
Family and Social Environment is the most crucial factor to cultural sensitivity in this case. Based on the discussion above, some strategies, such as sharing the cultural or family belief, respecting the patient 's’ culture and so on, are
The Social Distance, as an intrinsic moderator, refers to the number and importance of dissimilar between physician and patients. In this case, the patient is an Egyptian woman and the physician is White American male. The differences between them are gender and ethnicity, which led the patient feeling embarrassed about the physical examination by taking off clothes. Moreover, this female patient might misunderstand the purpose of this examination.
The Family and Social Environment, as an extrinsic moderator, plays significant role in this issue. According to this …show more content…
It could have positive influence on fostering the physician-patient relationship, and validating and responding to emotions, which are two of the key functions of clinician-patient communication.
Exchanging and managing information is limited by the Clinician Attitudes. If the clinician had prejudice towards Egyptian culture, the relationship between the clinician and patient would be harmed. Patient Preference for Clinician and Patient Roles also influences the patient/provider communication. In this scenario, the female patient can possibly have her own expectation for her role in this visit. After her husband left, she elaborated her condition but embarrassed by the physical examination, which refers that she might expect that the physician could diagnose her without physical examination.
Family and Social Environment impedes this communication between the female patient and the clinician, because her husband dominated this dialogue. The Media Environment could amplify the patient’s mistrust by disseminating the negative news for medical care. In addition, if this health care facility did not perform efficiently and professionally, the patient could be unsatisfied in order to affect the patient/provider …show more content…
According to the Clinician Attitudes towards Patients, it is better to share the understanding of different cultural contexts in order to avoid physician’s negative perceptions of the patient, which refers to cultural sensitivity.
The Patient Preferences for Physicians and Patient Roles could also be various based on cultural contexts. For example, the patient/provider relationship is paternalistic in China under most of the circumstances. Patients would be willing to follow what clinicians say. I think it is similar in Egyptian culture. Therefore, it might effective to lead the conversation and more courage for the patients on decision making is required.
Family and Social Environment is the most crucial factor to cultural sensitivity in this case. Based on the discussion above, some strategies, such as sharing the cultural or family belief, respecting the patient 's’ culture and so on, are