West meets East

Q4 Medicine

Communication and Medicine Pub Date : 2022-02-17 DOI:10.1558/cam.19234

Neda Akbari, R. Woodward‐Kron

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Abstract

Research has identified the tasks associated with effective patient-centered communication (PCC), but less is known about the contexts that can enable or hinder its implementation. This study explores East Slavic doctors’ perspectives and experiences of intercultural PCC with Western patients. Semi-structured interviews informed by the principles of PCC were carried out with 15 doctors from two private clinics in Ukraine. The interviews were analyzed both for content and themes, informed by the dimensions of culture approach developed by Geert Hofstede and co-authors. The findings suggest disparities between the Ukrainian doctors’ perspectives and experiences of PCC and those encountered in the West, with those of the former seeming to be influenced by socio-historical and educational barriers, and by dimensions of national culture in Ukraine. In conceptualizing PCC, the societal context needs to be taken into account, lest some important functions of medical communication be placed at risk.

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西方与东方相遇

研究已经确定了与有效的以患者为中心的沟通(PCC)相关的任务，但对能够实现或阻碍其实施的环境知之甚少。本研究探讨东斯拉夫医生与西方患者跨文化PCC的观点和经验。根据PCC原则，对乌克兰两家私人诊所的15名医生进行了半结构化访谈。根据Geert Hofstede及其合著者提出的文化维度方法，对访谈内容和主题进行了分析。研究结果表明，乌克兰医生对PCC的看法和经验与西方医生之间存在差异，前者似乎受到社会历史和教育障碍以及乌克兰民族文化方面的影响。在概念化PCC时，需要考虑到社会背景，以免医学传播的一些重要功能受到威胁。

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Communication and Medicine Medicine-Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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