Patient Education and Counseling

Article	Citations
Navigating obstetric bad news: Insights from tertiary care medical teams	221
Argumentative discourse in clinical dialogues: An interdisciplinary perspective	98
New Associate Editor of Patient Education and Counseling	92
Health literacy friendly organizations – A scoping review about promoting health literacy in a surgical setting	92
The effect of preoperative education on postoperative pain and function after orthopedic surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis	92
The role of accountability in adherence programs	85
Personalised written consultation summaries for patients: An ‘up-close, in-depth, inside-out’ exploration of a rheumatologist's patient-centred strategy	84
Practitioner accounts of end-of-life communication in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan: A systematic review	72
Studying clinical communication through multiple lenses: The underused potential of inter-disciplinary collaborations	67
Cancer care partners’ behavioral intention to use autonomy enhancing communication skills during accompanied visits after online skill training.	63
A nurse-led approach to testing and adapting a telehealth guide for e-empathy in goals of care conversations for Black patients with chronic kidney disease	59
Development and national consensus finding on patient-centred high stakes communication skills assessments for the Swiss Federal Licensing Examination in Medicine	58
Current communication practices for biomarker testing in non-small cell lung cancer: Exploring patient and clinician perspectives	54
The relationship between medical students’ empathy and burnout levels by gender and study years	53
Advancing communication skills in intensive care: Caring for relatives of critically ill patients	52
Prostate cancer, online health information and communication technology – Bibliometric analysis of field with research frontiers	51
GP laughter in lifestyle behaviour consultations: A conversation analytical study of general practice	48
Racial and ethnic disparities in communication study enrollment for young people with cancer: A descriptive analysis of the literature	46
Healthcare professionals’ behaviour regarding the implementation of shared decision-making in screening programmes: A systematic review	43
Dyadic concordance and other considerations for matching pairs for peer support diabetes prevention interventions: A mixed methods assessment	42
Corrigendum to “Instruments evaluating the duration and pace of clinical encounters: A scoping review” [Patient Educ Couns 131 (2025) 108591]	41
Exploring health advice by dental professionals in USA: A secondary data analysis of NHANES (2015–2018)	40
Involving caregivers in design and assessment of opioid risk and safety communication intervention in children	40
Investigating question-answer sequences in child mental health assessments: Engaging children and families through declarative question design	39
Innovative Communication Skills Training for First and Second Year Medical Students	39

“My gut feeling is…”: Identifying healthcare professionals communication about pain in rheumatology	38
Methods: to elicit and evaluate the attainment of patient goals in older adults: a scoping review	37
Train the trainer-certificate-programme for teachers of medical-therapeutic health professionals	37
Bringing personal perspective elicitation to the heart of shared decision-making: a scoping review	37
A communication training for pharmacy staff to improve the conversation about medication switches	37
The use of AccuRx in collection of Friends and Family Test data in a primary care network	35
Exploring uncertainties regarding unsolicited findings in genetic testing	35
Switching to remote public service interpreting with the help of training during the pandemic	35
Taking pause: Drawing from the history of neurology during COVID-19	35
Postpartum Blues	34
Perspectives of international experts and the Danish citizens on the ‘relevant knowledge’ that citizens need for making informed choices about participation in cancer screening: Qualitative study	33
Applying the health belief model to the rational use of drugs for hemodialysis patients: A randomized controlled trial	33
Effects of a temporal self-regulation theory-based intervention on self-management in hemodialysis patients: A randomized controlled trial	33
Psychometric properties of the revised Diabetes Knowledge Test using Rasch analysis	33
Warding off a tyranny of reliability and validity	32
What matters to families about the healthcare of preterm or low birth weight infants: A qualitative evidence synthesis	32
Decision aids to facilitate decision making around behavior change in the field of health promotion: A scoping review	31
Content and quality of consumer websites providing information about human papillomavirus infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: An environmental scan	31
Acknowledging and addressing the many ethical aspects of disease	29
Developing “The Health After Cancer Podcast” to amplify cancer survivors’ voices through digital storytelling	29
Methods for analyzing actual communication: A shared decision making consultation under multiple methodological lenses	28
The effects of motivational interviewing on hypertension management: A systematic review and meta-analysis	28
Introducing a brain health literacy framework to promote health equity for Latinos: A discussion paper	28
Healthcare professionals’ experiences of interprofessional collaboration in patient education: A systematic review	28
Contextualizing care: An essential and measurable clinical competency	28
Information needs across time after a hematological cancer diagnosis: A qualitative study of patient and clinician perspectives	27
The effect of nurse-led empowering education on nutrition impact side effects in patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A randomised trial	27
For which decisions is Shared Decision Making considered appropriate? – A systematic review	27
“Letter to my future self” as a device for assessing health education effectiveness	27
A pre-visit video/question prompt list intervention to increase youth question-asking about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder during pediatric visits	27
Effect of a family planning program on documented emotional support and reproductive goals counseling after previable pregnancy loss	26
Effect of a physician led education invention on colon cancer screening at underserved clinics in Georgia	26
Exploring student perceptions of empathy development during medical school – A phenomenological study	25
Comprehension of confidence intervals in audio-visual patient information materials for people with multiple sclerosis (COCO-MS): A web-based randomised controlled, parallel group trial	25
Editorial Board	25
Co-design to increase implementation of insomnia guidelines in primary care	25
Parents’ needs and perceived gaps in communication with healthcare professionals in the neonatal (intensive) care unit: A qualitative interview study	25
Editorial Board	25
A longitudinal study of third-year medical students’ communication competence, communication anxiety, and attitudes toward patient-centered care	25
Effects of reasoned treatment decision-making on parent-related outcomes: Results from a video-vignette experiment in neonatal care	25
Navigating decisional conflict as a family when facing the decision of stem cell transplant for a child or adolescent with sickle cell disease	24
Shared decision making reimagined	24
A qualitative inquiry of communication based barriers to the diagnosis of pediatric cancer: Perceptions of primarily Spanish-speaking caregivers	24
Decision-making experiences of patients and partners opting for active surveillance in esophageal cancer treatment	24
Evaluation of a nurse-led multi-component transition program for adolescents with congenital heart disease	24
What is clinical empathy? Perspectives of community members, university students, cancer patients, and physicians	23
“Now I get what’s important” - Shifting philosophies of hospice society staff and trained volunteers involved in peer-facilitated Advance Care Planning workshops for the public	23
Comprehensibility of South African pictograms by sub-Saharan African prospective-users	23
Developing performance-based measures of health literacy: A narrative case study and checklist of considerations	23
Effectiveness of motivational interviewing among patients with COPD: A systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials	23

Efficacy of DiaLife, an Education Program for Relatives of Adults with Diabetes – A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial	23
Development of an adjective-selection measure evaluating clinicians’ attitudes towards using patient decision aids: The ADOPT measure	23
Breaking bad news: A randomized controlled trial to test a novel interactive course for medical students using blended learning	22
Black Americans’ Perceptions of Communication and Other Factors during Oncology Care Virtual Visits	22
Stage-based analysis of an adaptive worksite intervention trial for diabetes prevention	22
Editorial Board	22
Parental satisfaction with diagnosis disclosure: A study on parents of children or adults with genetic syndromes	22
Patient-centredness in healthcare: co-design for patient education material about insomnia	21
Association between self-perceived consultation time and understanding of the prescribed treatment: An analysis of a national survey in Peru	21
(WIP) Student Perceptions of Clinical Communication Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education	21
Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy: A mixed-methods study of attitudes in a sample of Italian women and the role of health professionals’ communication	20
Medication Challenges in the Post-Stroke Patient: A Qualitative Study	20
Communicating about clinical trials to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities	20
Disassembling realities: A personal narrative	20
Assessment of the variability and accuracy of readability scores across online calculators	20
(WIP) Beyond 3rd-Person Personal Pronouns: Removing gender-language from written healthcare communication	20
Positive oral communication enhances pain management strategies	20
Challenges of public institutional communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.	20
How different dimensions of medical students’ empathy relate to mental health and burnout	20
Exploring the relationship between GP and patient language use: The case of (un)explained symptoms	20
From Manchester to Alexandria: Are there fundamentals of communication teaching	20
(WIP) News coverage about cancer screening in the Netherlands: A content analysis	20
Cracking the Deep Freeze	19
Experiences with information provision and preferences for decision making of patients with stroke	19
Understanding the varying social factors affecting pediatric participation during medical visits	19
Editorial Board	19
Effects of a health psychology-based intervention for patients with asplenia on psychological determinants of preventive behaviour: A propensity score analysis	19
(WIP) Towards culturally sensitive shared decision-making in oncology: A study protocol	19
Patient experiences and provider perspectives on genital surgery on young children with DSD	19
Editorial Board	19
Where is Shared Decision Making in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma? A Qualitative Study	19
Supportive and psychosocial peer-group interventions for children and adolescents of parents with cancer: A systematic review	19
Assessing the role of interactivity: An evaluation of information aids to support the enrollment of precision medicine research programs	19
Identifying and classifying medical jargon through analysis of recorded standardized patient encounters	19
Development of a coronavirus social distance attitudes scale	18
Speaking out of turn: Implications of partner contributions for patient autonomy during prostate cancer consultations	18
Understand nurse’s perspectives on communication with Chinese-speaking cardiac patients	18
Living with type 2 diabetes: A social cognitive perspective on adherence	18
Communication matters when it comes to adverse events: Associations of adverse events during implant treatment with patients’ communication quality and trust assessments	18
Monitoring what matters to people with diabetes: Do we underestimate the importance of behaviour, attitude, and well-being?	18
Primary care providers’ views of discussing COVID-19 vaccination with vaccine hesitant patients: A qualitative study	18
Use of coping strategies in the management of medication overuse headache	18
Interventions to improve medication adherence in inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review	17
The effectiveness of a person-centred communication skills training programme for the health care professionals of a large hospital in Denmark	17
Limited health literacy in primary care physiotherapy: Does a physiotherapist use techniques to improve communication?	17
Shared decision making with black patients: A scoping review	17
Patient-reported outcome measures in value-based healthcare: A multiple methods study to assess patient-centredness	17
Development, validation and evaluation of a patient information booklet for rectal cancer survivors with a stoma: A three-step approach	17
The use of a biopsychosocial model in the treatment of patients with chronic	17
Predicting decisional conflict: Anxiety and depression in shared decision making	17
Shared decision-making and the duration of medical consultations: A systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Journey to inpatient hospice care: A qualitative study on the decision-making process of Chinese family caregivers of persons with terminal cancer	17
The impact of patient education on knowledge, attitudes, and cardiac rehabilitation attendance among patients with coronary artery disease	17
Using patient-generated health data in clinical practice: How timing influences its function in rheumatology outpatient consultations	17
Changes in disease-related knowledge and educational needs of patients with coronary heart disease over a six-month period between hospital discharge and follow-up	17
Development and psychometric testing of the European Heart Failure Self-Care behaviour scale caregiver version (EHFScB-C)	16
Patients' attitudes towards using a question prompt list in community pharmacies	16
Worldwide review with meta-analysis of women’s awareness about breast cancer	16
Physician-directed information prescription service. A scoping review	16
Responding to nurses’ communication challenges: Evaluating a blended learning program for communication knowledge and skills for nurses	16
Patient and family engagement strategies for children and adolescents with chronic diseases: A review of systematic reviews	16
Communicating personalized risk of diabetes and offering weight reduction program choice: Recruitment, participation, and outcomes	16
Patient and practitioner priorities and concerns about primary healthcare interactions for osteoarthritis: A meta-ethnography	16
Credit where it’s due: Recognising lived experience in research authorship	16
Mobile apps for weight management in children and adolescents; An updated systematic review	16
Exploring factors to interpretation of targeted nutrition messages for people living with multiple sclerosis	16
Communication between healthcare providers and communicatively-vulnerable patients with associated health outcomes: A scoping review of knowledge syntheses	16
Effect of a discordant opinion offered by a second opinion physician on the patient’s decision for management of spinal disc disease	16
Is weight an emotional issue? Direct observation of weight discussions in primary care consultations	15
Factors affecting interest in multiple genetic tests in an ethnically diverse sample of young women	15
“Don’t worry, you can trust me”: Indicators of the role of trust in residents’ reflective writing	15
Interprofessional counselling of oncology patients on complementary and integrative health care	15
Psychometric assessment of the Concerns about Late Effects in Oncology Questionnaire (CLEO) among female breast cancer survivors	15
Applying the RE-AIM framework to evaluate an educational model to “close the gap” and improve health equity in uncontrolled hypertension	15
Interaction between telenurses and callers – A deductive analysis of content and timing in telephone nursing calls	15
The impact of mindfulness-based interventions on the experiences of cancer patients: A qualitative meta-synthesis	15
Health professionals’ view on the role of hope and communication challenges with patients in palliative care: A systematic narrative review	15
Virtual reality training of bad news delivery in health care	15
Understanding racial-ethnic differences in patient-centered care (PCC) in oncology through a critical race theory lens: A qualitative comparison of PCC among Black, Hispanic, and White cancer patients	15
Using real-time recordings to design communication training on how physicians discuss code status	15

Emotional cues and concerns of patients with a life limiting, chronic illness during advance care planning conversations in general practice	15
Exercising power in the self-management of COPD: A narrative inquiry. Patient and user perspectives	15
Automated rating of patient and physician emotion in primary care visits	15
Promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy: A feasibility and pilot trial of a digital storytelling intervention delivered via text‐messaging	15
An Empowerment Toolbox for Older People with Atrial Fibrillation: Results: from the AFFIRMO project	15
Application of motivational interviewing to group: Teaching advance care planning via group visits for clinical professionals	15
Factors associated with patient activation in a socially deprived population: Evidence from Germany	15
The first steps towards professional distance: A sequential analysis of students’ interactions with patients expressing emotional issues in medical interviews	15
Does interprofessional communication change after introducing EPR? A qualitative network analysis	15
Exploring the impact of a pain assessment information visualization tool on provider-patient pain discussion with limited English proficiency Hmong patients	14
Relationship of patient-centered communication and cancer risk information avoidance: A social cognitive perspective	14
The perspectives of participants with traumatic brain injury on prospective memory rehabilitation incorporating compensatory and metacognitive skills training	14
Effectiveness of self-management program for gastric cancer patients: A randomized controlled trial comparing gain vs. loss message framing	14
Validation of the Knowledge of Genome Sequencing (KOGS) scale in cancer patients	14
Coaching for parents of children with type 1 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial	14
Vaccine for yourself, your community, or your country? Examining audiences’ response to distance framing of COVID-19 vaccine messages	14
Presenting scientifically-derived illness experiences online – Evaluation of the use of the DIPEx Germany website	14
Clients’ perspectives on the quality of counseling for prenatal anomaly screening. A comparison between 2011 and 2019	14
Treatment-related communication experiences and expectations among Indian cancer patients receiving radiation therapy and their family members: A qualitative study	14
Relative importance of “why” and “how” messages on medication behavior: Insights from construal level theory	14
Impact of personalized risk scores on shared decision making in left ventricular assist device implantation: Findings from a qualitative study	14
Assessing the mediating role of disenfranchising talk on the well-being of female patients with chronic overlapping pain conditions	14
Disparities in cancer clinical trials information-seeking: Findings from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service	14
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in patient engagement in healthcare interactions	14
The use of outcome data in patient consultations from the healthcare professionals’ and patients’ perspectives: A mixed methods study	14
Substance use as subtext to health narratives: Identifying opportunities for improving care from community member perspectives	13
Association between relational attitudes and a training in communication and emotion handling skills	13
Intensifying approaches to address clinical inertia among cardiovascular disease risk factors: A narrative review	13
Medical treatment decision-making in rural cancer patients: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis	13
Developing an audio-based communication tool for NICU discharge of Latino families with limited English proficiency	13
(WIP) EPAs for assessment of communication skills competences during Family Medicine residency in Portugal	13
Experiential approaches to professional communication skills training: a grounded theory study	13
Long-term effects of a peer-led asthma self-management program on asthma outcomes in adolescent peer leaders	13
Promoting HIV self-testing via emotional support messages among men who have sex with men in China	13
Designing a Course on Communication in Healthcare for Undergraduate Medical Students	13
Partnering with consumers to co-design a person-centred coding framework for qualitative patient experience data	13
Creating a Formal Partnership between EACH and the International Communication Association (ICA)	13
A systematic review of the use of unannounced standardized patients (USPs) in clinical settings: A call for more detailed quality and fidelity descriptions and expansion to new areas	13
Decision making about esophageal cancer treatment: variation in clinicians’ communication behavior	13
Reflections on ‘common’ genetic medical history questions: Time to examine the what, why, and how	13
Family involvement and diabetes distress across dyads for adults with type 2 diabetes	13
“Are you otherwise fit and well?”: Past medical history questions in UK paediatric consultations	13
Education, trust, and likelihood to vaccinate against COVID-19 among patients with diabetes in the American South	13
Visual presentations to communicate prognosis in adults: Two online randomised controlled trials	13
Teaching approaches for dialogue in a digital simulation	13
A family doctor contends with the unspoken face of the corona pandemic for the Reflective Practice section	13
Interventions to improve medical media reporting: a co-designed acceptability study with journalists	13
Free Spirit	13
Current status and implementation strategies of patient education in core outcome set development	13
Providers’ communication-related concerns in helping patients address the financial impact of cancer	13
Myths and misinformation associated with vaccine incompleteness: A survey study	13
Editorial Board	12
Using incorpoRATE to examine clinician willingness to engage in shared decision making: A study of Family Medicine residents	12
Communication strategies among Black pastors in South Carolina about the COVID-19 Vaccination	12
Understanding Young Persons' experiences through healthcare transition. A qualitative study.	12
Developing communication curricula in healthcare education: An evidence-based guide	12
Between and within race differences in patient-centeredness and activation in mental health care	12
How is complementary medicine discussed in oncology? Observing real-life communication between clinicians and patients with advanced cancer	12
Managing uncertainty and responding to difficult emotions: Cancer patients’ perspectives on clinician response during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Patients’ and kin’s perspective on healthcare quality compared to Lachman's multidimensional quality model: Focus group interviews	12
Personal health planning for patients with COPD: Staff perspectives from VA’s Whole Health system	12
(WIP) How Providers Screen and Communicate with Patients about Food Insecurity in the Primary Care Setting	12
“Can we have a little humanity here?”: Patient perspectives on the impact of a standardized care process for patients who use opioids for the management of chronic pain	12
The immediate, intermediate, and long-term effectiveness of audiovisuals for providing pre-treatment information to patients with cancer: A systematic review	12
Patient role in SDM models: Re: Berger Z, Galasinski D, Scalia P, Dong K, Blunt HB, Elwyn G, “The Submissive Silence of Others: Examining Definitions of Shared Decision Making” [Patient Educ Couns (20	12
The effect of mobile application based genetic counseling on the psychosocial well-being of thalassemia patients and caregivers: A randomized controlled trial	12
Validation of pharmaceutical pictograms among older adults with limited English proficiency	12
Improving iron folic acid consumption through interpersonal communication: Findings from the Reduction in Anemia through Normative Innovations (RANI) project	12
O.17.1Communication Aids for the Clinical Child Protection Setting and Sexual Assault Examination	12
O.9.2Oncology nurses' perceptions of advance directives for patients with cancer	12
Talking about completely different “things” in shared decision making	12
Evaluation of natural history communication and shared decision making for self-limiting conditions: Analysis of UK primary care consultations	12
Racial differences in patient perception of interactions with providers are associated with health outcomes in type II diabetes	12
Conversation starters: Understanding the facilitators and barriers to physician-initiated secure firearm storage conversations	12
Critical physician behaviors in the formation of a good physician-patient relationship: Concept mapping the perspective of patients with chronic conditions	12
A multi-site prospective controlled pilot evaluation of Cardiac College for Women in the cardiac rehabilitation setting	12
Editorial Board	12
PACCT: an intervention to increase clinical trial invitations for Black and White men with cancer	12
The Phone: Communication in the Age of COVID-19	11
Advancing medical communication education internationally: tEACH collaborative initiatives	11
Family carers’ experiences of managing older relative’s medications: Insights from the MEMORABLE study	11
A smartphone-based supportive counseling on health anxiety and acceptance of disability in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus patients: A randomized clinical trial	11
Corrigendum to “Antidepressant decision aid for major depressive disorder patients (ADAM): Development and pilot testing” [Patient Education and Counseling 105 7 (2022) 2466–2474]	11
Treatment recommendations to parents during pediatric tonsillectomy consultations: A mixed methods analysis of surgeon language	11
Structurally collecting patient feedback on trainee skills: A pilot study in Obstetrics and Gynaecology	11
How children and adolescents with chronic pain describe their pain experiences: A qualitative systematic review	11
Unpacking the relationship between shared decision-making and decisional quality, decision to screen, and screening completion in lung cancer screening	11
Encounter decision aids to facilitate shared decision-making with women experiencing heavy menstrual bleeding or symptomatic uterine fibroids: A before-after study	11
Improving Veterinary Team Handovers using video reflexive techniques	11
The role of disclosure & perceptions about providers in health discussions among gay and bisexual young men	11
Assessing the impact of patient-involvement healthcare strategies on patients, providers, and the healthcare system: A systematic review	11
Medical students’ expressions of empathy: A qualitative study of verbal interactions with patients expressing emotional issues in a medical interview	11
Discriminatory and valuing communication behaviors in cardiology encounters	11
Simulation-based childbirth education for Chinese primiparas: A pilot randomized controlled trial	11
How do general practitioners manage patient health literacy differences in cardiovascular disease prevention consultations? An interview study	11