By the Numbers
Factors
Typologies
Health Literacy
Key Functions of Communication
100
What percentage of US adults had contact with a healthcare provider in 2010?
82.2%
100
This moderators involve qualities of individuals and of clinician-patient relationships that either directly or indirectly relate to affective or cognitive processes.
What is an intrinsic moderator?
100
When the provider has greater control over the interaction and is characterized by a low degree of involvement by the patient.
What is paternalism?
100
This is the strongest predictor of a person's health status.
What is literacy level?
100
Developing a relationship characterized by mutual trust, engagement, respect and agreement on roles.
What is fostering a healing physician-patient relationship?
200
What is the total number of visits by US adults to health care providers in 2010?
1.2 billion
200
Name 3 out of the 4 Modifiable Intrinsic Moderators.
What are 1. Health Literacy, 2. Social Distance, 3. Provider Attitudes towards Patient, 4. Patient Preferences for Clinician and Patient Roles in Care?
200
Is characterized by balance in control between the provider and the patient.
What is mutuality?
200
What is the average reading level of an American adult?
8-9th grade
200
Reducing a patient's perceptions of inconsistency, randomness, complexity or unpredictability regarding illness, treatment or recovery.
What is managing uncertainty?
300
What is the average amount of time spent in a physician's office?
15-20 minutes
300
A patient refuses treatment because her culture does not believe in surgery, her parents have forbidden her to do so, and she has a stage 4 melanoma with little chance of recovery. Name at least two extrinsic moderators that influence the patient's decision to refuse treatment.
What are family, cultural values and beliefs, and stage of disease?
300
When neither provider nor patient has control.
What is default?
300
What is the number of adult Americans who have difficulty reading and understanding health information?
Approximately 90 million adult Americans.
300
Providing navigational help, supporting patient autonomy, and providing advice and guidance on better self-care.
What is enabling patient self-management?
400
What is the average amount of time before a patient is first interrupted by a provider?
23 seconds
400
Name 5 other factors that moderate health outcomes.
What are language, healthcare setting, race, education, provider attitude and communication style, age, gender, SES, patient beliefs and attitudes?
400
Healthcare provider is more likely to be more sensitive to the goals and needs of the patients in such situation.
What is consumerism?
400
It has been suggested that barriers to health literacy can be addressed through culturally appropriate health education. Name an example.
Yay!
400
Active patient participation in information exchange and deliberation to find a mutually agreeable solution.
What is making decisions?
500
What is the average cost of a doctor's visit?
$95-265
500
Older and less educated patients are more likely to prefer _________ decision making models, whereas younger and more educated patients desire more ________ ______ roles. Fill in the blanks and name the extrinsic moderator.
What is Paternalistic; active and/or collaborative, Patient preferences for physician and patient roles?
500
Name one of the 3 models of physician-patient relationships.
What is Activity/passivity model (the physician makes the decisions) 2- Guidance/cooperation model (the physician provide instructions the patients carries them out) 3-Mutual participation model (the physician assists patients in helping themselves; the patient participates in decision making)?
500
Who are the people not at risk for health illiteracy?
No one!
500
Promoting a patient's well-being by alleviating stress, enhancing positive feelings and facilitating a patient's ability to cope after the consultation.
What is validating and managing emotions?
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