Patient Education and Counseling

Article	Citations
Effective health communication – a key factor in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic	233
Integrating health behavior theories to predict American’s intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine	178
Health literacy in rural and urban populations: A systematic review	113
Using pictures to convey health information: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects on patient and consumer health behaviors and outcomes	77
Opportunities to improve COVID-19 provider communication resources: A systematic review	73
Toward a consensus on the nature of empathy: A review of reviews	66
A systematic review of interventions for family caregivers who care for patients with advanced cancer at home	66
Concerns of women regarding pregnancy and childbirth during the COVID-19 pandemic	63
Effects of parent-provider communication during infant hospitalization in the NICU on parents: A systematic review with meta-synthesis and narrative synthesis	53
Measuring patient empowerment – A systematic review	52
Factors influencing COVID-19 vaccination intention: The roles of vaccine knowledge, vaccine risk perception, and doctor-patient communication	52
Implications of the current COVID-19 pandemic for communication in healthcare	51
A scoping review of the use of visual aids in health education materials for persons with low-literacy levels	48
Empowerment in healthcare: A thematic synthesis and critical discussion of concept analyses of empowerment	46
Self-efficacy and health-related quality of life in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A meta-analysis	46
The influence of online health information on health decisions: A systematic review	46
Shared decision making: What is the work?	42
A Mixed Methods Examination of Health Care Provider Behaviors That Build Patients’ Trust	41
Virtual reality as a patient education tool in healthcare: A scoping review	41
Patient and clinician experiences of uncertainty in the diagnostic process: Current understanding and future directions	40
What makes a patient ready for Shared Decision Making? A qualitative study	40
Critical observations on and suggested ways forward for healthcare communication during COVID-19: pEACH position paper	39
The experiences and perspectives of family surrogate decision-makers: A systematic review of qualitative studies	38
Effectiveness of communicative and educative strategies in chronic low back pain patients: A systematic review	38
Effects of health coaching on behavioral modification among adults with cardiovascular risk factors: Systematic review and meta-analysis	38

Impact of pictograms on medication adherence: A systematic literature review	37
Quality of online information for the general public on COVID-19	37
Definitions and use of the teach-back method in healthcare consultations with patients: A systematic review and thematic synthesis	37
I’m not putting on that floral gown: Enforcement and resistance of gender expectations for transgender people with cancer	36
Parents’ needs and perceived gaps in communication with healthcare professionals in the neonatal (intensive) care unit: A qualitative interview study	36
Health literacy in the general population in the context of epidemic or pandemic coronavirus outbreak situations: Rapid scoping review	35
Definitions, instruments and correlates of patient empowerment: A descriptive review	35
Language barriers between nurses and patients: A scoping review	34
Patients’ and providers’ perspectives on sexual health discussion in the United States: A scoping review	34
Remote shared decision making through telemedicine: A systematic review of the literature	33
What Influences the Implementation of Shared Decision Making: An Umbrella Review	33
Assessing patients´ preferences for breaking Bad News according to the SPIKES-Protocol: the MABBAN scale	32
Impact of technology-based patient education on modifiable cardiovascular risk factors of people with coronary heart disease: A systematic review	32
Providing equitable care to patients with limited dominant language proficiency amid the COVID-19 pandemic	31
Parents’ experiences and information needs related to childhood fever: A systematic review	31
Ask Rosa – The making of a digital genetic conversation tool, a chatbot, about hereditary breast and ovarian cancer	31
Neurologists’ perceptions of utilising tele-neurology to practice remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic	30
Attitudes, knowledge and practice behaviours of oncology health care professionals towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) patients and their carers: A mixed-methods s	30
Waiting time, communication quality, and patient satisfaction: An analysis of moderating influences on the relationship between perceived waiting time and the satisfaction of breast cancer patients du	30
Combining mHealth and health-coaching for improving self-management in chronic care. A scoping review	30
Patient and Public Involvement in research: A journey to co-production	29
Oncologists’ experiences caring for LGBTQ patients with cancer: Qualitative analysis of items on a national survey	28
Reflective practice in the teaching of communication skills	28
Giving and receiving social support in online substance use disorder forums: How self-efficacy moderates effects on relapse	28
Evaluation of first-person storytelling on changing health-related attitudes, knowledge, behaviors, and outcomes: A scoping review	27
Clinicians’ accounts of communication with patients in end-of-life care contexts: A systematic review	27
Generalized shared decision making approaches and patient problems. Adapting AHRQ’s SHARE Approach for Purposeful SDM	27
The effectiveness of a person-centred communication skills training programme for the health care professionals of a large hospital in Denmark	26
Examining persuasive message type to encourage staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic and social lockdown: A randomized controlled study in Japan	26
The evidence supporting educational videos for patients and caregivers receiving hospice and palliative care: A systematic review	26
The effectiveness of peer support on self-efficacy and self-management in people with type 2 diabetes: A meta-analysis	26
Attachment styles as predictors of self-reported empathy in medical students during pre-clinical years	26
Defining and implementing patient-centered care: An umbrella review	26
Impact of health literacy in patients with cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis	26
The power of clinician-expressed empathy to increase information recall in advanced breast cancer care: an observational study in clinical care, exploring the mediating role of anxiety	26
Literacy skills, language use, and online health information seeking among Hispanic adults in the United States	26
Effect of question prompt lists for cancer patients on communication and mental health outcomes—A systematic review	25
Rural cancer survivors’ health information needs post-treatment	24
Training healthcare professionals in LGBTI cultural competencies: Exploratory findings from the Health4LGBTI pilot project	24
Vaccine for yourself, your community, or your country? Examining audiences’ response to distance framing of COVID-19 vaccine messages	24
Educational programs to teach shared decision making to medical trainees: A systematic review	24
Empowerment-oriented strategies to identify behavior change in patients with chronic diseases: An integrative review of the literature	24
Improving shared decision-making in advance care planning: Implementation of a cluster randomized staff intervention in dementia care	23
Giving and receiving a diagnosis of a progressive neurological condition: A scoping review of doctors’ and patients’ perspectives	23
Increasing patient activation through diabetes self-management education: Outcomes of DESMOND in regional Western Australia	23
Implementation of evidence-based PCOS lifestyle management guidelines: Perceived barriers and facilitators by consumers using the Theoretical Domains Framework and COM-B Model	23
For which decisions is Shared Decision Making considered appropriate? – A systematic review	23
Learning shared decision-making in clinical practice	23
Predicting decisional conflict: Anxiety and depression in shared decision making	23
The functions of adequate communication in the neonatal care unit: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research	22

Mitigating language and cultural barriers in healthcare communication: Toward a holistic approach	22
The communication of uncertainty in health: A scoping review	22
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among low-income, racially and ethnically diverse US parents	22
Effectiveness of a nurse-led multidisciplinary self-management program for patients with coronary heart disease in communities: A randomized controlled trial	22
Upscaling communication skills training – lessons learned from international initiatives	22
Psychological factors involved in psychopharmacological medication adherence in mental health patients: A systematic review	22
How can we describe impact of adult patient participation in health-service development? A scoping review	22
Assessing the effectiveness of a narrative-based patient education video for promoting opioid tapering	22
Engaging patients and families in communication across transitions of care: An integrative review	21
Public awareness in Egypt about COVID-19 spread in the early phase of the pandemic	21
Communication practices of healthcare professionals when caring for overweight/obese pregnant women: A scoping review	21
Mobile apps for weight management in children and adolescents; An updated systematic review	21
Scoping review: Definitions and outcomes of patient-provider language concordance in healthcare	21
Experiences of empathy training in healthcare: A systematic review of qualitative studies	21
The role of weight bias and role-modeling in medical students’ patient-centered communication with higher weight standardized patients	20
Risk perceptions of COVID-19 and its impact on precautionary behavior: A qualitative study	20
Sharing genetic test results with family members of BRCA, PALB2, CHEK2, and ATM carriers	20
Challenges faced by families of critically ill patients during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic	20
Preference for and understanding of graphs presenting health risk information. The role of age, health literacy, numeracy and graph literacy	20
Utility of a virtual counselor (VICKY) to collect family health histories among vulnerable patient populations: A randomized controlled trial	20
Start with reducing sedentary behavior: A stepwise approach to physical activity counseling in clinical practice	20
Characterizing Wuhan residents’ mask-wearing intention at early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic	20
The Roles of medical interpreters in intensive care unit communication: A qualitative study	19
The challenges with managing polycystic ovary syndrome: A qualitative study of women’s and clinicians’ experiences	19
Making shared decisions in relation to planned caesarean sections: What are we up to?	19
How do social media users process cancer prevention messages on Facebook? An eye-tracking study	19
Individuation and implicit racial bias in genetic counseling communication	19
Impact of patient information behaviours in online health communities on patient compliance and the mediating role of patients’ perceived empathy	19
Effectiveness of an education intervention associated with an exercise program in improving disease-related knowledge and health behaviours among diabetes patients	19
The effect of transition care interventions incorporating health coaching strategies for stroke survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Shared decision-making and patient engagement program during acute exacerbation of COPD hospitalization: A randomized control trial	19
The role and effectiveness of augmented reality in patient education: A systematic review of the literature	18
Veterans’ perceptions of racial bias in VA mental healthcare and their impacts on patient engagement and patient-provider communication	18
Effects of an educational intervention on heart failure knowledge, self-care behaviors, and health-related quality of life of patients with heart failure: Exploring the role of depression	18
The use of artificial intelligence and virtual reality in doctor-patient risk communication: A scoping review	18
Exploring approaches to identify, incorporate and report patient preferences in clinical guidelines: Qualitative interviews with guideline developers	18
Association of conflicting information from healthcare providers and poor shared decision making with suboptimal adherence in direct oral anticoagulant treatment: A cross-sectional study in patients w	18
Older adults with chronic illness – Caregiver burden in the Asian context: A systematic review	18
The use of virtual reality in patient education related to medical somatic treatment: A scoping review	18
“A bit of everything”: Health literacy interventions in chronic conditions – a systematic review	18
Racial disparities in clinician responses to patient emotions	18
The information needs of internet users and their requirements for online health information—A scoping review of qualitative and quantitative studies	17
The associations between reflective ability and communication skills among medical students	17
Using crowdsourced medicine to manage uncertainty on Reddit: The case of COVID-19 long-haulers	17
Development and early implementation of an Accessible, Relational, Inclusive and Actionable approach to genetic counseling: The ARIA model	17
Best practice in the implementation of telehealth-based supportive cancer care: Using research evidence and discipline-based guidance	17
Introducing Edna: A trainee chatbot designed to support communication about additional (secondary) genomic findings	17
Hope, uncertainty, and control: A theoretical integration in the context of serious illness	17
The impact of COVID-19 on cancer patients, their carers and oncology health professionals: A qualitative study	17
Agreement of physician and patient ratings of communication in medical encounters: A systematic review and meta-analysis of interrater agreement	17
Use of healthy conversation skills to promote healthy diets, physical activity and gestational weight gain: Results from a pilot randomised controlled trial	17
Main COVID-19 information sources in a culturally and linguistically diverse community in Sydney, Australia: A cross-sectional survey	16
Cancer patients’ perspectives on financial burden in a universal healthcare system: Analysis of qualitative data from participants from 20 provincial cancer centers in Canada	16
Loss of patient centeredness in interpreter-mediated primary care visits	16
Identifying strategies to implement patient-centred care for women: Qualitative interviews with women	16
Cognitive impairment no dementia and associations with health literacy, self-management skills, and functional health status	16
The use of simulation in medical student education on the topic of breaking bad news: A systematic review	16
Cancer survivor’s perspectives on the major challenge in the transition to survivorship	16
Online peer-to-peer support for persons affected by prostate cancer: A systematic review	15
Initiating end-of-life decisions with parents of infants receiving neonatal intensive care	15
Telehealth delivery of motivational interviewing for diabetes management: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials	15
The aspects of healthcare quality that are important to health professionals and patients: A qualitative study	15
The impact of shared decision making on time consumption and clinical decisions. A prospective cohort study	15
Health literacy as a predictor of emergency department visits and self-rated health among Chinese immigrants: findings from an Australian survey	15
Developing communication curricula in healthcare education: An evidence-based guide	15
Tested communication strategies for providing information to patients in medical consultations: A scoping review and quality assessment of the literature	15
“I think that everybody should be involved”: What informs experiences of shared decision-making in supporting people living with schizophrenia spectrum disorders?	15
What does the structure of a medical consultation look like? A new method for visualising doctor-patient communication	15
A systematic scoping review of psychosocial and psychological factors associated with patient activation	15
Worldwide review with meta-analysis of women’s awareness about breast cancer	15
Patient-Provider communication with teach-back, patient-centered diabetes care, and diabetes care education	15
What is clinical empathy? Perspectives of community members, university students, cancer patients, and physicians	14
Examining the direct and indirect effects of trust in motivating COVID-19 vaccine uptake	14
Motivations and barriers to pursue cancer genomic testing: A systematic review	14
Developing a video intervention to improve youth question-asking and provider education during paediatric diabetes clinic encounters: The Promoting Adolescents Communication and Engagement study	14
Inclusion of person-centred care in medical and nursing undergraduate curricula in the UK: Interviews and documentary analysis	14
Misdiagnosis and failure to diagnose in emergency care: Causes and empathy as a solution	14
Oncology patients’ preferences regarding sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) disclosure and room sharing	14
Story Arcs in Serious Illness: Natural Language Processing features of Palliative Care Conversations	14
Change is possible: How increased patient activation is associated with favorable changes in well-being, self-management and health outcomes among people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A prospective l	14

Contextualizing care: An essential and measurable clinical competency	14
Impact of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on counseling self-efficacy: A randomized controlled crossover trial	14
Barriers and enablers of older adults initiating a deprescribing conversation	14
Underpinning of the sharing knowledge about immunisation (SKAI) communication approach: A qualitative study using recorded observations	14
Factors affecting cancer patients’ electronic communication with providers: Implications for COVID-19 induced transitions to telehealth	14
Shared decision making, patient-centered communication and patient satisfaction – A cross-sectional analysis	14
The impact of patient-generated contextual data on communication in clinical practice: A qualitative assessment of patient and clinician perspectives	14
The relationship between medical students’ empathy and burnout levels by gender and study years	14
Virtual patient simulation in breaking bad news training for medical students	14
Exploring cancer patients’, caregivers’, and clinicians’ utilisation and experiences of telehealth services during COVID-19: A qualitative study	14
Managing everyday life: Self-management strategies people use to live well with neurological conditions	14
Efficacy of a dyadic intervention to improve communication between patients with cancer and their caregivers: A randomized pilot trial	14
Translation and evaluation of a comprehensive educational program for cardiac rehabilitation patients in Latin America: A multi-national, longitudinal study	13
Development of a coronavirus social distance attitudes scale	13
Common sense model of self-regulation for understanding adherence and quality of life in type 2 diabetes with structural equation modeling	13
Patients’ perspectives on shared decision making in secondary mental healthcare in Taiwan: A qualitative study	13
Uncertainty management for individuals with Lynch Syndrome: Identifying and responding to healthcare barriers	13
Toward a basic science of communication in serious illness	13
Effects of health literacy skills, educational attainment, and level of melanoma risk on responses to personalized genomic testing	13
Nurse-led health coaching programme to improve hospital-to-home transitional care for stroke survivors: A randomised controlled trial	13
Understanding cancer caregiver burden over time: Dyadic assessments of family cohesion, conflict and communication	13
The role of peer support education model on the quality of life and self-care behaviors of patients with myocardial infarction	13
Utility of mobile technology in medical interpretation: A literature review of current practices	13
Effects of narrative persuasion in promoting influenza vaccination in Hong Kong: A randomized controlled trial	13
The effect of motivational interviewing on metabolic control and psychosocial variables in individuals diagnosed with diabetes: Systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Two years with COVID-19: New - and old - challenges for health communication research	13
What doubts, concerns and fears about COVID-19 emerged during the first wave of the pandemic?	13
Summarizing recommendations to eliminate weight stigma in prenatal health care settings: A scoping review	13
Parents’ information needs, treatment concerns, and psychological well-being when their child is diagnosed with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: A systematic review	13
Deaf adults at higher risk for severe illness: COVID-19 information preference and perceived health consequences	13
The role of digital patient education in maternal health: A systematic review	13
The association between frailty and medication adherence among community-dwelling older adults with chronic diseases: Medication beliefs acting as mediators	13
Asking about self-harm and suicide in primary care: Moral and practical dimensions	13
The use of video for patient information and education: A scoping review of the variability and effectiveness of interventions	12
Making the most of video recorded clinical encounters: Optimizing impact and productivity through interdisciplinary teamwork	12
Patient-provider communication patterns among Asian American immigrant subgroups in New York City	12
Patient perceptions of trust formation in the surgeon-patient relationship: A thematic analysis	12
Family interventions for adults living with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A qualitative meta-synthesis	12
The impact of communicating uncertain test results in cancer genetic counseling: A systematic mixed studies review	12
Shared decision making and consent post-Montgomery, UK Supreme Court judgement supporting best practice	12
‘More than words’ – Interpersonal communication, cognitive bias and diagnostic errors	12
Challenges for healthcare communication during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
How can pharmacists develop patient-pharmacist communication skills? A realist synthesis	12
Incorporating shared decision making into communication with older adults with cancer and their caregivers: Development and evaluation of a geriatric shared decision-making communication skills traini	12
Development and preliminarily validation of the Complementary Medicine Disclosure Index	12
Opportunities and limitations of shared decision making in multidisciplinary tumor conferences with patient participation – A qualitative interview study with providers	12
Effect of nurse-led program on the exercise behavior of coronary artery patients: Pender’s Health Promotion Model	12
Motivational interviewing to support medication adherence in adults with chronic conditions: Systematic review of randomized controlled trials	12
Validation of an Australian parenting health literacy skills instrument: The parenting plus skills index	12
Patient involvement in micro-decisions in intensive care	12
Evaluation of the quality and readability of online information about breast cancer in China	12
Discharge planning, self-management, and community support: Strategies to avoid psychiatric rehospitalisation from a service user perspective	12
The association between patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and patient participation in chronic care: A scoping review	12
Open dialogue about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) integrated in conventional oncology care, characteristics and impact. A systematic review	12
Preoperative concerns of patients undergoing general surgery	12
Effects of preoperative individualized audiovisual education on anxiety and comfort in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy: randomised controlled study	11
Family communication about genomic sequencing: A qualitative study with cancer patients and relatives	11
Parental perspectives on promoting physical activity for their children surviving cancer: A qualitative study	11
Supporting health literacy using an interactive app for symptom management during radiotherapy for prostate cancer	11
The needs of gynecological cancer survivors at the end of primary treatment: A scoping review and proposed model to guide clinical discussions	11
Changes in Health Literacy during the first year following a kidney transplantation: Using the Health Literacy Questionnaire	11
Twelve tips for patient involvement in health professions education	11
Cardiovascular-targeted patient education and uptake of influenza vaccination in elderly patients	11
Learning how to break bad news from worked examples: Does the presentation format matter when hints are embedded? Results from randomised and blinded field trials	11
Can self-management programmes change healthcare utilisation in COPD?	11
Barriers and facilitators to the availability of efficacious self-directed digital health tools for adults living with cancer and their caregivers: A systematic literature review and author survey stu	11
Filling the gaps of patient information needs and information perception in chronic myeloid leukemia with the patient-physician co-produced web-based platform CMyLife	11
Effect of information format on intentions and beliefs regarding diagnostic imaging for non-specific low back pain: A randomised controlled trial in members of the public	11
Self-management for pulmonary fibrosis: Insights from people living with the disease and healthcare professionals	11
Challenges and approaches to involving family caregivers in primary care	11
Communicating polygenic risk scores in the familial breast cancer clinic	11
The effect of a scalable online training module for shared decision making based on flawed video examples – a randomized controlled trial	11
The meaning of rapport for patients, families, and healthcare professionals: A scoping review	11
What improves the likelihood of people receiving genetic test results communicating to their families about genetic risk?	11
Openness to new perspectives created by patient participation at the morbidity and mortality meeting	11
Triadic agreement about advanced cancer treatment decisions: Perceptions among patients, families, and oncologists	11
Empathic communication as a “Risky strength” for health during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of frontline Italian healthcare workers	11
Rapid review of virus risk communication interventions: Directions for COVID-19	11
The Look After Yourself (LAY) intervention to improve self-management in stroke survivors: Results from a quasi-experimental study	11
Impact of a physician recommendation on COVID-19 vaccination intent among vaccine hesitant individuals	11
The effect of nutritional education program on quality of life and serum electrolytes levels in hemodialysis patients: A single-blind randomized controlled trial	11
Persuasive messages can be more effective when repeated: A comparative survey assessing a message to seek help for depression among Japanese adults	11
Prenatal counseling for extreme prematurity at the limit of viability: A scoping review	10
Talking about Dr. Google: Communication strategies used by nurse practitioners and patients with inflammatory bowel disease in the Netherlands to discuss online health information	10
Factors shaping the provision of sexual health education for adults with acute coronary syndrome: A scoping review	10
Effectiveness of the video medium to supplement preoperative patient education: A systematic review of the literature	10
Effectiveness and acceptability of a text message intervention (DTEXT) on HbA1c and self-management for people with type 2 diabetes. A randomized controlled trial	10
Shared decision-making in serious mental illness: A comparative study	10
Completion of advance directives among African Americans and Whites adults	10
Critical evaluation of YouTube videos on colostomy and ileostomy: Can these videos be used as learning resources?	10
Parental role in decision-making for pediatric surgery: Perceptions of involvement in consultations for tonsillectomy	10
Impact of language preference and health literacy on health information-seeking experiences among a low-income, multilingual cohort	10
The effectiveness of behavioral interventions to improve oral health in adolescents at different periods of follow-up: A systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Pre-transplant evaluation completion for Black/African American renal patients: Two theoretical frameworks	10
Design of a safety dashboard for patients	10