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- Title
Understanding interpersonal communication processes across health contexts: advances in the last decade and challenges for the next decade.
- Authors
Duggan, Ashley
- Abstract
Interpersonal communication processes are central to the provider-patient interaction and in relationships with someone who is ill or needs care. The last decade of research has documented the ways communication processes predict better outcomes in the provider-patient interaction and key constructs for consideration in close relationships in which a health issue in some way defines the relationship. The current article highlights findings from the previous decade and the ways previous findings serve as a theoretical and methodological foundation for more sophisticated analysis of interpersonal communication processes in health contexts. A relational perspective serves as a link between the provider-patient relationship and close relationships with someone with a health issue. Implications for provider-patient contexts, medical education, and close relationships highlight future directions for theory building, health literacy, health outcomes, family communication, developmental issues, and a life span perspective.
- Publication
Journal of health communication, 2006, Vol 11, Issue 1, p93
- ISSN
1081-0730
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1080/10810730500461125