Patient Education and Counseling

Article	Citations
Navigating obstetric bad news: Insights from tertiary care medical teams	189
Nurse-patient communication in complex situations: development of dynamic, generalizable scenarios	141
Communication work among young breast cancer survivors	121
From 0 to 100: self-management in individuals with spinal cord injury after initial rehabilitation	86
Co-designing communication research within family practice: experiences from Basque Country, Spain	79
Patient-centred communication to improve patient safety	77
Integrating natural language processing (NLP) into health communication research and practice	77
Development of a rubric assessment form for evaluating communication skills of pharmacy students	66
The biographical approach: a narrative practice to improve patients' support and care	65
Exploring uncertainties regarding unsolicited findings in genetic testing	63
Constructing an intervention to foster posttraumatic growth in people living with a life limiting illness and receiving palliative care: Participatory action research	62
GP laughter in lifestyle behaviour consultations: A conversation analytical study of general practice	59
Personalised written consultation summaries for patients: An ‘up-close, in-depth, inside-out’ exploration of a rheumatologist's patient-centred strategy	58
“Letter to my future self” as a device for assessing health education effectiveness	57
A communication training for pharmacy staff to improve the conversation about medication switches	56
Bringing personal perspective elicitation to the heart of shared decision-making: a scoping review	56
Innovative Communication Skills Training for First and Second Year Medical Students	53
Switching to remote public service interpreting with the help of training during the pandemic	52
Train the trainer-certificate-programme for teachers of medical-therapeutic health professionals	48
Cancer care partners’ behavioral intention to use autonomy enhancing communication skills during accompanied visits after online skill training.	48
Methods: to elicit and evaluate the attainment of patient goals in older adults: a scoping review	46
The use of AccuRx in collection of Friends and Family Test data in a primary care network	46
Exploring health advice by dental professionals in USA: A secondary data analysis of NHANES (2015–2018)	45
“My gut feeling is…”: Identifying healthcare professionals communication about pain in rheumatology	45
Investigating question-answer sequences in child mental health assessments: Engaging children and families through declarative question design	43

Content and quality of consumer websites providing information about human papillomavirus infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: An environmental scan	42
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	41
Sharpening the lens: Resources to enhance methodological rigor in healthcare communication coding	39
Risk communication – the science of making “meaningful numbers” or the art of making “meaningful pictures”?	39
The effect of preoperative education on postoperative pain and function after orthopedic surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis	38
Introducing a brain health literacy framework to promote health equity for Latinos: A discussion paper	38
The effects of motivational interviewing on hypertension management: A systematic review and meta-analysis	38
Current communication practices for biomarker testing in non-small cell lung cancer: Exploring patient and clinician perspectives	37
The role of congruency in patient-doctor interactions: Insights from rare cancer consultations	36
Racial and ethnic disparities in communication study enrollment for young people with cancer: A descriptive analysis of the literature	36
Adapting TikTok and behavioral economics for youth-centered HIV prevention and PrEP education in the Philippines	36
Health literacy friendly organizations – A scoping review about promoting health literacy in a surgical setting	35
Prostate cancer, online health information and communication technology – Bibliometric analysis of field with research frontiers	35
Developing “The Health After Cancer Podcast” to amplify cancer survivors’ voices through digital storytelling	35
Corrigendum to “Instruments evaluating the duration and pace of clinical encounters: A scoping review” [Patient Educ Couns 131 (2025) 108591]	34
What matters to families about the healthcare of preterm or low birth weight infants: A qualitative evidence synthesis	33
Influence of patient-oriented organizational climate on physicians’ patient-centered behavior: The mediating role of patient-centeredness self-efficacy	33
Effects of a temporal self-regulation theory-based intervention on self-management in hemodialysis patients: A randomized controlled trial	33
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
Information needs across time after a hematological cancer diagnosis: A qualitative study of patient and clinician perspectives	32
A pre-visit video/question prompt list intervention to increase youth question-asking about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder during pediatric visits	32
Dyadic concordance and other considerations for matching pairs for peer support diabetes prevention interventions: A mixed methods assessment	30
The role of accountability in adherence programs	30
Argumentative discourse in clinical dialogues: An interdisciplinary perspective	30
Healthcare professionals’ experiences of interprofessional collaboration in patient education: A systematic review	30
The effect of nurse-led empowering education on nutrition impact side effects in patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A randomised trial	30
Acknowledging and addressing the many ethical aspects of disease	30
For which decisions is Shared Decision Making considered appropriate? – A systematic review	29
Editorial Board	29
Studying clinical communication through multiple lenses: The underused potential of inter-disciplinary collaborations	29
Health literacy-sensitive communication in diabetes care: A qualitative exploration of interpersonal and policy-level factors	29
Understanding how patient education affects the process of treatment decision-making: Cultural model change in kidney disease therapy	28
Practitioner accounts of end-of-life communication in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan: A systematic review	28
Measures to evaluate clinician communication in the intensive care unit: A systematic review of measurement properties	28
Optimised heart failure medication in hospital-to-home transitions: an adherence burden for patients?	28
Strengthening the foundations of shared decision-making in oncology: Systematic review and formal representation of theoretical models	28
Let’s keep an eye on it: An experiment examining healthcare provider use of figurative language on perceptions of provider and accommodation	27
Primary care providers’ views of discussing COVID-19 vaccination with vaccine hesitant patients: A qualitative study	27
Speaking out of turn: Implications of partner contributions for patient autonomy during prostate cancer consultations	27
Understand nurse’s perspectives on communication with Chinese-speaking cardiac patients	27
Decision-making experiences of patients and partners opting for active surveillance in esophageal cancer treatment	27
Journey to inpatient hospice care: A qualitative study on the decision-making process of Chinese family caregivers of persons with terminal cancer	26
Effect of a family planning program on documented emotional support and reproductive goals counseling after previable pregnancy loss	25
Use of metaphor in provider-patient communication in medical settings: A systematic review	25
Assessment of the variability and accuracy of readability scores across online calculators	25
Stage-based analysis of an adaptive worksite intervention trial for diabetes prevention	25
Pilot study: Training bilingual Hmong caregivers using the pain assessment information visualization tool for effective communication in healthcare	25
A qualitative inquiry of communication based barriers to the diagnosis of pediatric cancer: Perceptions of primarily Spanish-speaking caregivers	25
Parental satisfaction with diagnosis disclosure: A study on parents of children or adults with genetic syndromes	25
Editorial Board	24

Editorial Board	24
Development of an adjective-selection measure evaluating clinicians’ attitudes towards using patient decision aids: The ADOPT measure	24
Monitoring what matters to people with diabetes: Do we underestimate the importance of behaviour, attitude, and well-being?	24
Assessing the role of interactivity: An evaluation of information aids to support the enrollment of precision medicine research programs	24
Association between self-perceived consultation time and understanding of the prescribed treatment: An analysis of a national survey in Peru	23
Communicating about clinical trials to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities	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
Cracking the Deep Freeze	23
Disassembling realities: A personal narrative	23
Experiences with information provision and preferences for decision making of patients with stroke	23
How different dimensions of medical students’ empathy relate to mental health and burnout	23
Understanding the varying social factors affecting pediatric participation during medical visits	23
Co-design to increase implementation of insomnia guidelines in primary care	23
Medication Challenges in the Post-Stroke Patient: A Qualitative Study	23
Editorial Board	23
From Manchester to Alexandria: Are there fundamentals of communication teaching	22
Black Americans’ Perceptions of Communication and Other Factors during Oncology Care Virtual Visits	22
(WIP) Student Perceptions of Clinical Communication Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education	22
Patient experiences and provider perspectives on genital surgery on young children with DSD	22
(WIP) News coverage about cancer screening in the Netherlands: A content analysis	22
(WIP) Beyond 3rd-Person Personal Pronouns: Removing gender-language from written healthcare communication	22
Patient-centredness in healthcare: co-design for patient education material about insomnia	22
Exploring the relationship between GP and patient language use: The case of (un)explained symptoms	22
Positive oral communication enhances pain management strategies	21
Exploring the validity of US Pharmacopeia pictograms among young Spanish citizens who have completed secondary education	21
The use of a biopsychosocial model in the treatment of patients with chronic	21
(WIP) Towards culturally sensitive shared decision-making in oncology: A study protocol	21
Effects of a health psychology-based intervention for patients with asplenia on psychological determinants of preventive behaviour: A propensity score analysis	21
Quality of nurses communication and interpersonal skills	21
Where is Shared Decision Making in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma? A Qualitative Study	21
Efficacy of DiaLife, an Education Program for Relatives of Adults with Diabetes – A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial	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	21
The interplay between learners' planned behaviour and learning environment in CST: a PAR study	21
Improved values- based goals of care documentation through interprofessional communication education	21
Metaphor in a medical admissions tests	21
Challenges of public institutional communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.	21
Patient-reported outcome measures in value-based healthcare: A multiple methods study to assess patient-centredness	20
Communication matters when it comes to adverse events: Associations of adverse events during implant treatment with patients’ communication quality and trust assessments	20
Supportive and psychosocial peer-group interventions for children and adolescents of parents with cancer: A systematic review	20
Exploring student perceptions of empathy development during medical school – A phenomenological study	20
Shared decision making reimagined	20
Shared decision making with black patients: A scoping review	20
Effectiveness of motivational interviewing among patients with COPD: A systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials	20
Guided Self-Determination – What does “guided” mean in connection with self-determination?	20
Limited health literacy in primary care physiotherapy: Does a physiotherapist use techniques to improve communication?	20
Interventions to improve medication adherence in inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review	20
The paradox of autonomy: A discussion paper	20
Designing a lifestyle intervention to optimise cardiometabolic health in high-risk prenatal and postnatal women: A pre-implementation study	19
Comprehensibility of South African pictograms by sub-Saharan African prospective-users	19
A longitudinal study of third-year medical students’ communication competence, communication anxiety, and attitudes toward patient-centered care	19
Psychosocial impacts of, and barriers to, lung cancer screening: An international qualitative study of multidisciplinary health professionals’ perspectives	19
Living with type 2 diabetes: A social cognitive perspective on adherence	19
Effects of reasoned treatment decision-making on parent-related outcomes: Results from a video-vignette experiment in neonatal care	19
Shared decision-making and the duration of medical consultations: A systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Patients' attitudes towards using a question prompt list in community pharmacies	19
Evaluation of a nurse-led multi-component transition program for adolescents with congenital heart disease	19
“Everything looks reassuring.”: Managing uncertainty during the emergency department discharge process	19
Virtual reality training of bad news delivery in health care	19
Exploring factors to interpretation of targeted nutrition messages for people living with multiple sclerosis	18
Worldwide review with meta-analysis of women’s awareness about breast cancer	18
Attributes, skills and resources required for peer health navigator roles: A qualitative study of the perspective of patients, healthcare professionals and health navigators	18
Coaching for parents of children with type 1 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial	18
Communicating with children in healthcare: How can we make it better?	18
A theory-based educational intervention to increase mothers’ intention to vaccinate their daughters against human papillomavirus: A randomised controlled trial	17
Psychometric assessment of the Concerns about Late Effects in Oncology Questionnaire (CLEO) among female breast cancer survivors	17
The use of outcome data in patient consultations from the healthcare professionals’ and patients’ perspectives: A mixed methods study	17
Is weight an emotional issue? Direct observation of weight discussions in primary care consultations	17
Does interprofessional communication change after introducing EPR? A qualitative network analysis	17
The perspectives of participants with traumatic brain injury on prospective memory rehabilitation incorporating compensatory and metacognitive skills training	17
Exercising power in the self-management of COPD: A narrative inquiry. Patient and user perspectives	17
Using real-time recordings to design communication training on how physicians discuss code status	17
Interprofessional counselling of oncology patients on complementary and integrative health care	17
“Don’t worry, you can trust me”: Indicators of the role of trust in residents’ reflective writing	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
Validation of the Knowledge of Genome Sequencing (KOGS) scale in cancer patients	17
Factors affecting interest in multiple genetic tests in an ethnically diverse sample of young women	17
An Empowerment Toolbox for Older People with Atrial Fibrillation: Results: from the AFFIRMO project	17
Presenting scientifically-derived illness experiences online – Evaluation of the use of the DIPEx Germany website	16
Teaching visual literacy to medical students, a scoping review on effective infographic design	16
Patients' perceptions of communication during in-person and telehealth oncology visits	16

Developing implementation strategies to prevent venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer	16
Tools and strategies for physiotherapists communication to patients with limited health literacy	16
Application of motivational interviewing to group: Teaching advance care planning via group visits for clinical professionals	16
Validation of the typology of healthcare interpreter positionings among healthcare practitioners	16
Leading platform thuisarts.nl: understandable and reliable medical information for general public	16
Tech tools unleashed: elevating your scientific productivity with AI and other software	16
Towards a code of conduct for medical influencers	16
Contextualising care by medical specialists in the Netherlands	16
Increasing emotional intelligence for improved relationship-centered communication	16
Exploring communication around end of life among spanish speaking families in pediatric ICU	16
Improving communication with patients with communication disabilities	16
Assessing the mediating role of disenfranchising talk on the well-being of female patients with chronic overlapping pain conditions	15
Patient and practitioner priorities and concerns about primary healthcare interactions for osteoarthritis: A meta-ethnography	15
The first steps towards professional distance: A sequential analysis of students’ interactions with patients expressing emotional issues in medical interviews	15
Interaction between telenurses and callers – A deductive analysis of content and timing in telephone nursing calls	15
Risk communication of study drug side effects: An evaluation of informed consent forms from ClinicalTrials.gov	15
Emotional cues and concerns of patients with a life limiting, chronic illness during advance care planning conversations in general practice	15
Impact of personalized risk scores on shared decision making in left ventricular assist device implantation: Findings from a qualitative study	15
Applying the RE-AIM framework to evaluate an educational model to “close the gap” and improve health equity in uncontrolled hypertension	15
It is time to recognise shared decision-making as a complex intervention	15
Effectiveness of self-management program for gastric cancer patients: A randomized controlled trial comparing gain vs. loss message framing	15
Treatment-related communication experiences and expectations among Indian cancer patients receiving radiation therapy and their family members: A qualitative study	15
Disparities in cancer clinical trials information-seeking: Findings from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service	15
Stakeholder engagement (including PPI) in healthcare communication research and education	15
Exploring the cultural factors affecting E-cigarette use among young adults in China: Utilizing the PEN-3 cultural model	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	14
Promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy: A feasibility and pilot trial of a digital storytelling intervention delivered via text‐messaging	14
Exploring the impact of a pain assessment information visualization tool on provider-patient pain discussion with limited English proficiency Hmong patients	14
Health professionals’ view on the role of hope and communication challenges with patients in palliative care: A systematic narrative review	14
Substance use as subtext to health narratives: Identifying opportunities for improving care from community member perspectives	14
Interventions to improve medical media reporting: a co-designed acceptability study with journalists	14
Patient and family-centered care among Middle Eastern and North African children living in the United States	14
Educational gains from video feedback activity: the perception of general practice trainees	14
Discrepancies in subjective vs. objective health literacy assessments in older adults	14
Responding to nurses’ communication challenges: Evaluating a blended learning program for communication knowledge and skills for nurses	14
Credit where it’s due: Recognising lived experience in research authorship	14
Communication between healthcare providers and communicatively-vulnerable patients with associated health outcomes: A scoping review of knowledge syntheses	14
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in patient engagement in healthcare interactions	14
Real needs of end-stage kidney disease patients awaiting kidney transplantation in China: A qualitative study	14
Teaching approaches for dialogue in a digital simulation	14
How is complementary medicine discussed in oncology? Observing real-life communication between clinicians and patients with advanced cancer	14
Experiential approaches to professional communication skills training: a grounded theory study	14
How clinicians' intentionally and unwittingly tailor treatment information to cancer patients	14
Physician-directed information prescription service. A scoping review	14
The impact of mindfulness-based interventions on the experiences of cancer patients: A qualitative meta-synthesis	14
Shared decision-making, the working alliance, and patient-centered care: A simultaneous concept analysis and review of the literature	14
Promoting HIV self-testing via emotional support messages among men who have sex with men in China	14
A multi-site prospective controlled pilot evaluation of Cardiac College for Women in the cardiac rehabilitation setting	14
Decision making about esophageal cancer treatment: variation in clinicians’ communication behavior	14
Corrigendum to “Promoting interactional health equity through (Complementary and Integrative Health) talk during clinical encounters” [Patient Educ Couns 134 (2025) 108651]	14
A train-the-trainer educational program to improve professional skills in elderly diabetes care	14
Improving communication post-spinal cord injury: a longitudinal qualitative study	14
Relative importance of “why” and “how” messages on medication behavior: Insights from construal level theory	14
Education, trust, and likelihood to vaccinate against COVID-19 among patients with diabetes in the American South	13
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	13
Association between relational attitudes and a training in communication and emotion handling skills	13
Medical treatment decision-making in rural cancer patients: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis	13
The effect of mobile application based genetic counseling on the psychosocial well-being of thalassemia patients and caregivers: A randomized controlled trial	13
Reflections on ‘common’ genetic medical history questions: Time to examine the what, why, and how	13
Partnering with consumers to co-design a person-centred coding framework for qualitative patient experience data	13
(WIP) EPAs for assessment of communication skills competences during Family Medicine residency in Portugal	13
The immediate, intermediate, and long-term effectiveness of audiovisuals for providing pre-treatment information to patients with cancer: A systematic review	13
“Are you otherwise fit and well?”: Past medical history questions in UK paediatric consultations	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
Current status and implementation strategies of patient education in core outcome set development	13
Free spirit	13
Visual presentations to communicate prognosis in adults: Two online randomised controlled trials	13
Designing a Course on Communication in Healthcare for Undergraduate Medical Students	13
A family doctor contends with the unspoken face of the corona pandemic for the Reflective Practice section	13
Myths and misinformation associated with vaccine incompleteness: A survey study	13
Providers’ communication-related concerns in helping patients address the financial impact of cancer	13
Conversation starters: Understanding the facilitators and barriers to physician-initiated secure firearm storage conversations	12
Stories Side-by-Side: A comparative narrative analysis of stories about end-of-life care	12
PACCT: an intervention to increase clinical trial invitations for Black and White men with cancer	12
Effectiveness of remotely delivered motivational conversations on health outcomes in patients living with musculoskeletal conditions: A systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Family involvement and diabetes distress across dyads for adults with type 2 diabetes	12
Understanding young persons' experiences through healthcare transition. A qualitative study	12
Editorial Board	12
O.9.2Oncology nurses' perceptions of advance directives for patients with cancer	12
(WIP) How Providers Screen and Communicate with Patients about Food Insecurity in the Primary Care Setting	12
Medical students learn patient-centered communication from patients with chronic conditions	12
Challenges facing introduction of communication skills into medical education in Iraq	12
Considerations for student-led telepractice in paediatric speech-language therapy during COVID-19	12
Developing an audio-based communication tool for NICU discharge of Latino families with limited English proficiency	12
Intensifying approaches to address clinical inertia among cardiovascular disease risk factors: A narrative review	12
Access frequency, institutional empowerment and online health record use in later life	12
Personal health planning for patients with COPD: Staff perspectives from VA’s Whole Health system	12
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Disclosure Among Oncology Patients: Describing Current Trends	12
Communication strategies among Black pastors in South Carolina about the COVID-19 Vaccination	12
Managing uncertainty and responding to difficult emotions: Cancer patients’ perspectives on clinician response during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Does health literacy mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and navigation in the healthcare system? The French national health literacy survey (HLS19)	12
Developing communication curricula in healthcare education: An evidence-based guide	12
Using incorpoRATE to examine clinician willingness to engage in shared decision making: A study of Family Medicine residents	11
Effectiveness of a BCW-based interactive pictorial health education program among patients with hypertension in the urban-rural fringe area in China	11
A smartphone-based supportive counseling on health anxiety and acceptance of disability in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus patients: A randomized clinical trial	11