There is increasing interest in promoting person-centered caregiving within gerontology. However, few observational instruments have been developed to measure person-centered caregiving behaviors. In the present study, two innovative coding instruments-the Person-Centered Behavior Inventory (PCBI) and the Global Behavior Scale (GBS)-were used to test the hypothesis that caregivers' person-cente...

A standardized curriculum back school (CBS) has been recommended for further dissemination in medical rehabilitation in Germany. However, implementation of self-management education programs into practice is challenging. In low back pain care, individual factors of professionals could be decisive regarding implementation fidelity. The study aim was to explore attitudes and experiences of profes...

Patient-centeredness and cultural competence have been promoted extensively in recent years as approaches to improving health care quality. This paper explores the historical evolution of both concepts, demonstrating that early conceptual models focused on how health care providers and patients interact at the interpersonal level, while later models were expanded to consider how patients were t...

BACKGROUND Person-centered care is a multidimensional concept describing good care, especially within aged care and care for people with dementia. Research studies evaluating person-centered care interventions seldom use direct measurement of levels of person-centeredness. Existing scales that measure person-centeredness need further testing. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of ...

INTRODUCTION Our study examines how the professional and employment context may influence clinicians' practice self management support for patients with long term conditions (LTC). MATERIAL AND METHODS We surveyed clinicians working with patients with depression, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), chronic musculo skeletal pain and diabetes. RESULTS Clinicians most frequently end...

BACKGROUND Although differences between Internal Medicine (IM) and Family Practice (FP) physicians have been examined in terms of care outcomes and cost, there have been few studies of specialty differences in physician-patient communication. METHODS In 1995, 277 clinical encounters with 29 full-time, community-based FP physicians and 287 clinical encounters with 30 full-time, community based...

<em>Learner autonomy is one of the predictors academic performance. Many researchers have argued that moving from secondary to higher school a big transition. Shifting focus teacher-centeredness learner-centeredness, learners in display less reliance on their teachers carry learning. Throughout this process, develop and boost independence. However, numerous studies revealed most students ...

Background: Clinical reasoning is a complex skill students have to acquire during their education. For educators it is difficult to explain their reasoning to students, because it is partly an automatic and unconscious process. Virtual Patients (VPs) are used to support the acquisition of clinical reasoning skills in healthcare education. However, until now it remains unclear which features or ...