Patient Education and Counseling

Papers
(The TQCC of Patient Education and Counseling is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Navigating obstetric bad news: Insights from tertiary care medical teams126
The role of accountability in adherence programs109
Personalised written consultation summaries for patients: An ‘up-close, in-depth, inside-out’ exploration of a rheumatologist's patient-centred strategy92
Studying clinical communication through multiple lenses: The underused potential of inter-disciplinary collaborations87
Cancer care partners’ behavioral intention to use autonomy enhancing communication skills during accompanied visits after online skill training.84
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 disease66
Prostate cancer, online health information and communication technology – Bibliometric analysis of field with research frontiers61
Involving caregivers in design and assessment of opioid risk and safety communication intervention in children61
Exploring health advice by dental professionals in USA: A secondary data analysis of NHANES (2015–2018)60
Innovative Communication Skills Training for First and Second Year Medical Students57
Investigating question-answer sequences in child mental health assessments: Engaging children and families through declarative question design56
Bringing personal perspective elicitation to the heart of shared decision-making: a scoping review52
“My gut feeling is…”: Identifying healthcare professionals communication about pain in rheumatology52
Methods: to elicit and evaluate the attainment of patient goals in older adults: a scoping review50
A communication training for pharmacy staff to improve the conversation about medication switches48
Switching to remote public service interpreting with the help of training during the pandemic47
Train the trainer-certificate-programme for teachers of medical-therapeutic health professionals47
The use of AccuRx in collection of Friends and Family Test data in a primary care network47
Postpartum Blues44
Effects of a temporal self-regulation theory-based intervention on self-management in hemodialysis patients: A randomized controlled trial44
Psychometric properties of the revised Diabetes Knowledge Test using Rasch analysis42
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 study42
Information needs across time after a hematological cancer diagnosis: A qualitative study of patient and clinician perspectives40
Content and quality of consumer websites providing information about human papillomavirus infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: An environmental scan40
Warding off a tyranny of reliability and validity40
Exploring uncertainties regarding unsolicited findings in genetic testing39
Acknowledging and addressing the many ethical aspects of disease37
Influence of patient-oriented organizational climate on physicians’ patient-centered behavior: The mediating role of patient-centeredness self-efficacy36
Racial and ethnic disparities in communication study enrollment for young people with cancer: A descriptive analysis of the literature34
Corrigendum to “Instruments evaluating the duration and pace of clinical encounters: A scoping review” [Patient Educ Couns 131 (2025) 108591]34
“Letter to my future self” as a device for assessing health education effectiveness34
Argumentative discourse in clinical dialogues: An interdisciplinary perspective34
Practitioner accounts of end-of-life communication in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan: A systematic review33
The relationship between medical students’ empathy and burnout levels by gender and study years33
Applying the health belief model to the rational use of drugs for hemodialysis patients: A randomized controlled trial32
Advancing communication skills in intensive care: Caring for relatives of critically ill patients32
GP laughter in lifestyle behaviour consultations: A conversation analytical study of general practice31
The effect of nurse-led empowering education on nutrition impact side effects in patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A randomised trial30
From 0 to 100: self-management in individuals with spinal cord injury after initial rehabilitation30
A pre-visit video/question prompt list intervention to increase youth question-asking about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder during pediatric visits30
Development of a rubric assessment form for evaluating communication skills of pharmacy students30
Integrating natural language processing (NLP) into health communication research and practice29
Co-designing communication research within family practice: experiences from Basque Country, Spain29
Patient-centred communication to improve patient safety29
Communication work among young breast cancer survivors29
The biographical approach: a narrative practice to improve patients' support and care29
Nurse-patient communication in complex situations: development of dynamic, generalizable scenarios29
Healthcare professionals’ experiences of interprofessional collaboration in patient education: A systematic review28
Introducing a brain health literacy framework to promote health equity for Latinos: A discussion paper28
Developing “The Health After Cancer Podcast” to amplify cancer survivors’ voices through digital storytelling28
Methods for analyzing actual communication: A shared decision making consultation under multiple methodological lenses28
Dyadic concordance and other considerations for matching pairs for peer support diabetes prevention interventions: A mixed methods assessment28
Contextualizing care: An essential and measurable clinical competency27
Current communication practices for biomarker testing in non-small cell lung cancer: Exploring patient and clinician perspectives27
Health literacy friendly organizations – A scoping review about promoting health literacy in a surgical setting26
The effects of motivational interviewing on hypertension management: A systematic review and meta-analysis26
For which decisions is Shared Decision Making considered appropriate? – A systematic review26
The effect of preoperative education on postoperative pain and function after orthopedic surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis26
What matters to families about the healthcare of preterm or low birth weight infants: A qualitative evidence synthesis25
A longitudinal study of third-year medical students’ communication competence, communication anxiety, and attitudes toward patient-centered care25
Co-design to increase implementation of insomnia guidelines in primary care25
Exploring student perceptions of empathy development during medical school – A phenomenological study25
Effects of reasoned treatment decision-making on parent-related outcomes: Results from a video-vignette experiment in neonatal care24
Stage-based analysis of an adaptive worksite intervention trial for diabetes prevention24
Shared decision making reimagined24
Effect of a family planning program on documented emotional support and reproductive goals counseling after previable pregnancy loss24
Decision-making experiences of patients and partners opting for active surveillance in esophageal cancer treatment24
Effectiveness of motivational interviewing among patients with COPD: A systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials24
Understand nurse’s perspectives on communication with Chinese-speaking cardiac patients23
Supportive and psychosocial peer-group interventions for children and adolescents of parents with cancer: A systematic review23
Effects of a health psychology-based intervention for patients with asplenia on psychological determinants of preventive behaviour: A propensity score analysis22
Let’s keep an eye on it: An experiment examining healthcare provider use of figurative language on perceptions of provider and accommodation22
Psychosocial impacts of, and barriers to, lung cancer screening: An international qualitative study of multidisciplinary health professionals’ perspectives22
Limited health literacy in primary care physiotherapy: Does a physiotherapist use techniques to improve communication?22
The use of a biopsychosocial model in the treatment of patients with chronic22
“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 public22
Shared decision making with black patients: A scoping review22
Interventions to improve medication adherence in inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review22
Developing performance-based measures of health literacy: A narrative case study and checklist of considerations22
Editorial Board21
Patient-centredness in healthcare: co-design for patient education material about insomnia21
Association between self-perceived consultation time and understanding of the prescribed treatment: An analysis of a national survey in Peru21
Breaking bad news: A randomized controlled trial to test a novel interactive course for medical students using blended learning21
(WIP) Student Perceptions of Clinical Communication Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education21
Efficacy of DiaLife, an Education Program for Relatives of Adults with Diabetes – A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial21
Black Americans’ Perceptions of Communication and Other Factors during Oncology Care Virtual Visits21
(WIP) Beyond 3rd-Person Personal Pronouns: Removing gender-language from written healthcare communication21
Challenges of public institutional communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.20
Positive oral communication enhances pain management strategies20
(WIP) News coverage about cancer screening in the Netherlands: A content analysis20
Communicating about clinical trials to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities20
Exploring the relationship between GP and patient language use: The case of (un)explained symptoms20
From Manchester to Alexandria: Are there fundamentals of communication teaching20
Disassembling realities: A personal narrative20
Medication Challenges in the Post-Stroke Patient: A Qualitative Study20
Assessment of the variability and accuracy of readability scores across online calculators20
Experiences with information provision and preferences for decision making of patients with stroke19
Patient experiences and provider perspectives on genital surgery on young children with DSD19
Editorial Board19
Where is Shared Decision Making in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma? A Qualitative Study19
How different dimensions of medical students’ empathy relate to mental health and burnout19
Editorial Board19
Use of coping strategies in the management of medication overuse headache19
Cracking the Deep Freeze19
Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy: A mixed-methods study of attitudes in a sample of Italian women and the role of health professionals’ communication19
Understanding the varying social factors affecting pediatric participation during medical visits19
(WIP) Towards culturally sensitive shared decision-making in oncology: A study protocol19
Speaking out of turn: Implications of partner contributions for patient autonomy during prostate cancer consultations18
Monitoring what matters to people with diabetes: Do we underestimate the importance of behaviour, attitude, and well-being?18
Metaphor in a medical admissions tests18
The interplay between learners' planned behaviour and learning environment in CST: a PAR study18
Primary care providers’ views of discussing COVID-19 vaccination with vaccine hesitant patients: A qualitative study18
A qualitative inquiry of communication based barriers to the diagnosis of pediatric cancer: Perceptions of primarily Spanish-speaking caregivers18
Improved values- based goals of care documentation through interprofessional communication education18
Communication matters when it comes to adverse events: Associations of adverse events during implant treatment with patients’ communication quality and trust assessments18
Living with type 2 diabetes: A social cognitive perspective on adherence18
Quality of nurses communication and interpersonal skills18
Comprehensibility of South African pictograms by sub-Saharan African prospective-users18
Development, validation and evaluation of a patient information booklet for rectal cancer survivors with a stoma: A three-step approach17
Journey to inpatient hospice care: A qualitative study on the decision-making process of Chinese family caregivers of persons with terminal cancer17
Evaluation of a nurse-led multi-component transition program for adolescents with congenital heart disease17
Development of an adjective-selection measure evaluating clinicians’ attitudes towards using patient decision aids: The ADOPT measure17
Application of motivational interviewing to group: Teaching advance care planning via group visits for clinical professionals17
Use of metaphor in provider-patient communication in medical settings: A systematic review17
Using patient-generated health data in clinical practice: How timing influences its function in rheumatology outpatient consultations17
Parental satisfaction with diagnosis disclosure: A study on parents of children or adults with genetic syndromes17
Shared decision-making and the duration of medical consultations: A systematic review and meta-analysis17
Physician-directed information prescription service. A scoping review17
The first steps towards professional distance: A sequential analysis of students’ interactions with patients expressing emotional issues in medical interviews17
Patient-reported outcome measures in value-based healthcare: A multiple methods study to assess patient-centredness17
The impact of patient education on knowledge, attitudes, and cardiac rehabilitation attendance among patients with coronary artery disease17
Assessing the role of interactivity: An evaluation of information aids to support the enrollment of precision medicine research programs17
Credit where it’s due: Recognising lived experience in research authorship17
Exploring the impact of a pain assessment information visualization tool on provider-patient pain discussion with limited English proficiency Hmong patients17
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in patient engagement in healthcare interactions16
Tech tools unleashed: elevating your scientific productivity with AI and other software16
Increasing emotional intelligence for improved relationship-centered communication16
Effect of a discordant opinion offered by a second opinion physician on the patient’s decision for management of spinal disc disease16
Towards a code of conduct for medical influencers16
Improving communication with patients with communication disabilities16
Treatment-related communication experiences and expectations among Indian cancer patients receiving radiation therapy and their family members: A qualitative study16
Validation of the typology of healthcare interpreter positionings among healthcare practitioners16
Developing implementation strategies to prevent venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer16
An Empowerment Toolbox for Older People with Atrial Fibrillation: Results: from the AFFIRMO project15
Interprofessional counselling of oncology patients on complementary and integrative health care15
Exploring communication around end of life among spanish speaking families in pediatric ICU15
Patients' perceptions of communication during in-person and telehealth oncology visits15
A theory-based educational intervention to increase mothers’ intention to vaccinate their daughters against human papillomavirus: A randomised controlled trial15
Is weight an emotional issue? Direct observation of weight discussions in primary care consultations15
Does interprofessional communication change after introducing EPR? A qualitative network analysis15
Contextualising care by medical specialists in the Netherlands15
Tools and strategies for physiotherapists communication to patients with limited health literacy15
“Don’t worry, you can trust me”: Indicators of the role of trust in residents’ reflective writing15
Using real-time recordings to design communication training on how physicians discuss code status15
Factors affecting interest in multiple genetic tests in an ethnically diverse sample of young women15
Leading platform thuisarts.nl: understandable and reliable medical information for general public15
Stakeholder engagement (including PPI) in healthcare communication research and education15
Teaching visual literacy to medical students, a scoping review on effective infographic design15
Validation of the Knowledge of Genome Sequencing (KOGS) scale in cancer patients14
Psychometric assessment of the Concerns about Late Effects in Oncology Questionnaire (CLEO) among female breast cancer survivors14
Effectiveness of self-management program for gastric cancer patients: A randomized controlled trial comparing gain vs. loss message framing14
Communicating with children in healthcare: How can we make it better?14
Changes in disease-related knowledge and educational needs of patients with coronary heart disease over a six-month period between hospital discharge and follow-up14
The perspectives of participants with traumatic brain injury on prospective memory rehabilitation incorporating compensatory and metacognitive skills training14
The use of outcome data in patient consultations from the healthcare professionals’ and patients’ perspectives: A mixed methods study14
Applying the RE-AIM framework to evaluate an educational model to “close the gap” and improve health equity in uncontrolled hypertension14
The impact of mindfulness-based interventions on the experiences of cancer patients: A qualitative meta-synthesis14
Relationship of patient-centered communication and cancer risk information avoidance: A social cognitive perspective14
Interaction between telenurses and callers – A deductive analysis of content and timing in telephone nursing calls14
Factors associated with patient activation in a socially deprived population: Evidence from Germany14
Coaching for parents of children with type 1 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial14
Attributes, skills and resources required for peer health navigator roles: A qualitative study of the perspective of patients, healthcare professionals and health navigators14
Relative importance of “why” and “how” messages on medication behavior: Insights from construal level theory14
Exercising power in the self-management of COPD: A narrative inquiry. Patient and user perspectives14
Disparities in cancer clinical trials information-seeking: Findings from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service14
Patient and practitioner priorities and concerns about primary healthcare interactions for osteoarthritis: A meta-ethnography14
Patients' attitudes towards using a question prompt list in community pharmacies14
Assessing the mediating role of disenfranchising talk on the well-being of female patients with chronic overlapping pain conditions14
Presenting scientifically-derived illness experiences online – Evaluation of the use of the DIPEx Germany website14
Promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy: A feasibility and pilot trial of a digital storytelling intervention delivered via text‐messaging13
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 patients13
Worldwide review with meta-analysis of women’s awareness about breast cancer13
Communication between healthcare providers and communicatively-vulnerable patients with associated health outcomes: A scoping review of knowledge syntheses13
Virtual reality training of bad news delivery in health care13
Teaching approaches for dialogue in a digital simulation13
Designing a Course on Communication in Healthcare for Undergraduate Medical Students13
Experiential approaches to professional communication skills training: a grounded theory study13
Mobile apps for weight management in children and adolescents; An updated systematic review13
Impact of personalized risk scores on shared decision making in left ventricular assist device implantation: Findings from a qualitative study13
Patient and family engagement strategies for children and adolescents with chronic diseases: A review of systematic reviews13
Responding to nurses’ communication challenges: Evaluating a blended learning program for communication knowledge and skills for nurses13
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 areas13
Association between relational attitudes and a training in communication and emotion handling skills13
Interventions to improve medical media reporting: a co-designed acceptability study with journalists13
Exploring factors to interpretation of targeted nutrition messages for people living with multiple sclerosis13
Vaccine for yourself, your community, or your country? Examining audiences’ response to distance framing of COVID-19 vaccine messages13
Emotional cues and concerns of patients with a life limiting, chronic illness during advance care planning conversations in general practice13
Health professionals’ view on the role of hope and communication challenges with patients in palliative care: A systematic narrative review13
Creating a Formal Partnership between EACH and the International Communication Association (ICA)13
Visual presentations to communicate prognosis in adults: Two online randomised controlled trials13
Decision making about esophageal cancer treatment: variation in clinicians’ communication behavior13
Does health literacy mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and navigation in the healthcare system? The French national health literacy survey (HLS19)12
Promoting HIV self-testing via emotional support messages among men who have sex with men in China12
Free Spirit12
A family doctor contends with the unspoken face of the corona pandemic for the Reflective Practice section12
A multi-site prospective controlled pilot evaluation of Cardiac College for Women in the cardiac rehabilitation setting12
Improving communication post-spinal cord injury: a longitudinal qualitative study12
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 (2012
Corrigendum to “Promoting interactional health equity through (Complementary and Integrative Health) talk during clinical encounters” [Patient Educ Couns 134 (2025) 108651]12
Improving iron folic acid consumption through interpersonal communication: Findings from the Reduction in Anemia through Normative Innovations (RANI) project12
How is complementary medicine discussed in oncology? Observing real-life communication between clinicians and patients with advanced cancer12
Substance use as subtext to health narratives: Identifying opportunities for improving care from community member perspectives12
Providers’ communication-related concerns in helping patients address the financial impact of cancer12
Reflections on ‘common’ genetic medical history questions: Time to examine the what, why, and how12
How clinicians' intentionally and unwittingly tailor treatment information to cancer patients12
Discrepancies in subjective vs. objective health literacy assessments in older adults12
Between and within race differences in patient-centeredness and activation in mental health care12
Educational gains from video feedback activity: the perception of general practice trainees12
The immediate, intermediate, and long-term effectiveness of audiovisuals for providing pre-treatment information to patients with cancer: A systematic review12
(WIP) EPAs for assessment of communication skills competences during Family Medicine residency in Portugal12
Education, trust, and likelihood to vaccinate against COVID-19 among patients with diabetes in the American South12
Family involvement and diabetes distress across dyads for adults with type 2 diabetes12
Partnering with consumers to co-design a person-centred coding framework for qualitative patient experience data12
A train-the-trainer educational program to improve professional skills in elderly diabetes care12
Managing uncertainty and responding to difficult emotions: Cancer patients’ perspectives on clinician response during the COVID-19 pandemic12
Real needs of end-stage kidney disease patients awaiting kidney transplantation in China: A qualitative study12
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Disclosure Among Oncology Patients: Describing Current Trends11
Considerations for student-led telepractice in paediatric speech-language therapy during COVID-1911
Medical students learn patient-centered communication from patients with chronic conditions11
Intensifying approaches to address clinical inertia among cardiovascular disease risk factors: A narrative review11
Developing an audio-based communication tool for NICU discharge of Latino families with limited English proficiency11
Personal health planning for patients with COPD: Staff perspectives from VA’s Whole Health system11
Physician-led education and handouts are most effective for educating patients about osteoporosis11
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
Improving Veterinary Team Handovers using video reflexive techniques11
Stories Side-by-Side: A comparative narrative analysis of stories about end-of-life care11
(WIP) How Providers Screen and Communicate with Patients about Food Insecurity in the Primary Care Setting11
Editorial Board11
Validation of pharmaceutical pictograms among older adults with limited English proficiency11
PACCT: an intervention to increase clinical trial invitations for Black and White men with cancer11
Discriminatory and valuing communication behaviors in cardiology encounters11
Access frequency, institutional empowerment and online health record use in later life11
Development and validation of a new tool to assess quality of decision-making by older children and parents about research participation11
Challenges facing introduction of communication skills into medical education in Iraq11
O.17.1Communication Aids for the Clinical Child Protection Setting and Sexual Assault Examination11
The effect of mobile application based genetic counseling on the psychosocial well-being of thalassemia patients and caregivers: A randomized controlled trial11
O.9.2Oncology nurses' perceptions of advance directives for patients with cancer11
Shared challenges and opportunities: Uncovering common ground in patient participation across different healthcare settings and patient groups. A qualitative meta-summary on patient-reported barriers 11
How do general practitioners manage patient health literacy differences in cardiovascular disease prevention consultations? An interview study11
On the nature of “evidence-based”11
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