Research on bad news delivery reveals a reliable temporal delay in the onset of the bad news message from the sender to the receiver. An experiment utilized a false feedback test design to determine whether the delay is better accounted for by negative verbal message planning, functional communication potential, or both. Participant-senders (N = 138) delivered either scripted or unscripted good...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of fraction resulted of bad news on stock returns emphasizing the regulatory power of information disclosure policies that for this goal, the study population is consisted of the companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during a five years' period (2010-2014). Data of selected statistical sample using systematic elimination method has been collect...

BACKGROUND Breaking bad news to mothers whose children has disability is an important role of physicians. There has been considerable speculation about the inevitability of parental dissatisfaction with how they are informed of their child's disability. Egyptian mothers' preferences for how to be told the bad news about their child's disability has not been investigated adequately. The objectiv...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to show that physician communication style of breaking bad news affects how the physician is perceived, how satisfied recipients of bad news are with the consultation, and how they feel after the consultation. METHOD Female participants (students, N=159) were asked to put themselves in the shoes of a patient receiving the bad news of a breast cancer diagno...

Most physicians regard the communication of bad news to be a difficult issue in clinical oncology practice. The optimal manner of communicating bad news to patients so that physicians can create maximal understanding in patients and facilitate their psychological adjustment is unknown. A systematic review of the literature was conducted to clarify available knowledge on patient preferences rega...

Managers have incentives to voluntarily disclose good news early and delay bad news disclosure, and we propose that earnings announcements offset these asymmetric incentives by assuming a proportionately greater role in the disclosure of bad news relative to good news. We find that when news measured by quarterly market-adjusted returns is negative, the proportion of news variation concentrated...

In the practice of oncology, it is difficult not to be impressed by the number of clinical situations that necessitate the conveyance of unfavorable medical information to patients and families. These include the communication of the cancer diagnosis, a poor prognosis, the failure of anticancer treatment, the occurrence of unwanted and significant side effects, the ineligibility for a clinical ...

This module considers different aspects of communicating a cancer diagnosis to the patient. Using a UK study, it looks at who breaks bad news in cancer care, frameworks for breaking bad news and the role of nurses.