Title |
Enhancing adult therapeutic interpersonal relationships in the acute health care setting: an integrative review
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Published in |
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, October 2016
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DOI | 10.2147/jmdh.s116957 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Rachel Kornhaber, Kenneth Walsh, Jed Duff, Kim Walker |
Abstract |
Therapeutic interpersonal relationships are the primary component of all health care interactions that facilitate the development of positive clinician-patient experiences. Therapeutic interpersonal relationships have the capacity to transform and enrich the patients' experiences. Consequently, with an increasing necessity to focus on patient-centered care, it is imperative for health care professionals to therapeutically engage with patients to improve health-related outcomes. Studies were identified through an electronic search, using the PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and PsycINFO databases of peer-reviewed research, limited to the English language with search terms developed to reflect therapeutic interpersonal relationships between health care professionals and patients in the acute care setting. This study found that therapeutic listening, responding to patient emotions and unmet needs, and patient centeredness were key characteristics of strategies for improving therapeutic interpersonal relationships. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Australia | 2 | 67% |
Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 553 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Bachelor | 161 | 29% |
Student > Master | 74 | 13% |
Student > Postgraduate | 27 | 5% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 5% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 21 | 4% |
Other | 65 | 12% |
Unknown | 179 | 32% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Nursing and Health Professions | 185 | 33% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 50 | 9% |
Psychology | 34 | 6% |
Social Sciences | 18 | 3% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 13 | 2% |
Other | 71 | 13% |
Unknown | 182 | 33% |