BACKGROUND Knowledge of ambulatory patients' satisfaction with clinic visits help improve communication and delivery of healthcare. The goal was to examine patient satisfaction in a primary care setting, identify how selected patient and physician setting and characteristics affected satisfaction, and determine if feedback provided to medical directors over time impacted patient satisfaction. ...

Cases of complaints in the outpatient installation Permata Blora Hospital continue to increase and repeat during Covid-19 pandemic. The number that come requires complaint handling maintain patient satisfaction. This study aims determine from General type qualitative research. Data collection through in-depth interviews with key informants triangulation informants. were five officers. officers ...

Aim Patients’ and spouses’ neurodevelopmental traits may influence marital relationships, which are significantly associated with depressive symptoms. However, no studies have examined relationships in persistent disorder (PDD) terms of traits. This study aimed to explore the association between autism spectrum (ASD) or attention-deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) female PDD patients both partners’ (...

BACKGROUND This study aims to evaluate the outpatient communication skills of medical students via multisource feedback, which may be useful to map future directions in improving physician-patient communication. METHODS Family respondents of patients, a nurse, a clinical teacher, and a research assistant evaluated video-recorded medical students' interactions with outpatients by using multiso...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess whether Horticulture Therapy (HT) is effective for the improvement of the conceptual organization function, memory and psychological symptoms of chronic depressed male outpatients.  Methods: 30 outpatients were chosen by the convenience sampling method. They were assigned to two groups, namely the experimental and the control group, by the r...

Interpreters improve access to care for patients with limited English proficiency (LEP), but some studies have reported poorer cultural understanding, relationship quality, and patient satisfaction than language-concordant care. Use of interpreter roles beyond linguistic conversion (clarifier, broker, or advocate/mediator) may enhance interpreter-mediated by improving understanding the therapeu...

Background Fear of cancer progression/recurrence (FOP/FCR) is considered one of the most prevalent sources of distress in cancer survivors and associated with lower quality of life and functional impairment. Detailed measures of FOP/FCR are needed because little is known about the knowledge of FOP/FCR, its associations with the patient-doctor relationship, and the rate of adequate therapy. Colo...

BACKGROUND Public health systems are confronted with constantly rising costs. Furthermore, diagnostic as well as treatment services become more and more specialized. These are the reasons for an interdisciplinary project on the one hand aiming at simplification of planning and scheduling patient appointments, on the other hand at fulfilling all requirements of efficiency and treatment quality. ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Few studies have assessed sleep disturbances or perception of pain in patients with early-stage chronic kidney disease. It was hypothesized that perception of pain and sleep disturbance would increase with chronic kidney disease stage, that pain and sleep disturbance would correlate with psychosocial variables, and that there would be a higher prevalence of pain and sl...