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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Navigating obstetric bad news: Insights from tertiary care medical teams132
The role of accountability in adherence programs116
Personalised written consultation summaries for patients: An ‘up-close, in-depth, inside-out’ exploration of a rheumatologist's patient-centred strategy101
Studying clinical communication through multiple lenses: The underused potential of inter-disciplinary collaborations88
Cancer care partners’ behavioral intention to use autonomy enhancing communication skills during accompanied visits after online skill training.87
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 frontiers62
Exploring health advice by dental professionals in USA: A secondary data analysis of NHANES (2015–2018)61
Involving caregivers in design and assessment of opioid risk and safety communication intervention in children61
Innovative Communication Skills Training for First and Second Year Medical Students58
Investigating question-answer sequences in child mental health assessments: Engaging children and families through declarative question design57
“My gut feeling is…”: Identifying healthcare professionals communication about pain in rheumatology56
Methods: to elicit and evaluate the attainment of patient goals in older adults: a scoping review52
Train the trainer-certificate-programme for teachers of medical-therapeutic health professionals52
A communication training for pharmacy staff to improve the conversation about medication switches52
The use of AccuRx in collection of Friends and Family Test data in a primary care network50
Postpartum Blues47
Switching to remote public service interpreting with the help of training during the pandemic47
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 study46
Psychometric properties of the revised Diabetes Knowledge Test using Rasch analysis45
Development of a rubric assessment form for evaluating communication skills of pharmacy students43
The effect of nurse-led empowering education on nutrition impact side effects in patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A randomised trial43
From 0 to 100: self-management in individuals with spinal cord injury after initial rehabilitation41
Nurse-patient communication in complex situations: development of dynamic, generalizable scenarios40
Co-designing communication research within family practice: experiences from Basque Country, Spain40
Communication work among young breast cancer survivors40
Integrating natural language processing (NLP) into health communication research and practice39
The biographical approach: a narrative practice to improve patients' support and care38
Introducing a brain health literacy framework to promote health equity for Latinos: A discussion paper37
Patient-centred communication to improve patient safety37
Current communication practices for biomarker testing in non-small cell lung cancer: Exploring patient and clinician perspectives36
Racial and ethnic disparities in communication study enrollment for young people with cancer: A descriptive analysis of the literature34
Content and quality of consumer websites providing information about human papillomavirus infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: An environmental scan34
The effect of preoperative education on postoperative pain and function after orthopedic surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis33
Healthcare professionals’ experiences of interprofessional collaboration in patient education: A systematic review33
Information needs across time after a hematological cancer diagnosis: A qualitative study of patient and clinician perspectives32
Methods for analyzing actual communication: A shared decision making consultation under multiple methodological lenses32
Influence of patient-oriented organizational climate on physicians’ patient-centered behavior: The mediating role of patient-centeredness self-efficacy31
Corrigendum to “Instruments evaluating the duration and pace of clinical encounters: A scoping review” [Patient Educ Couns 131 (2025) 108591]31
Exploring uncertainties regarding unsolicited findings in genetic testing31
Argumentative discourse in clinical dialogues: An interdisciplinary perspective31
Applying the health belief model to the rational use of drugs for hemodialysis patients: A randomized controlled trial30
“Letter to my future self” as a device for assessing health education effectiveness30
Advancing communication skills in intensive care: Caring for relatives of critically ill patients30
Practitioner accounts of end-of-life communication in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan: A systematic review30
A pre-visit video/question prompt list intervention to increase youth question-asking about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder during pediatric visits29
GP laughter in lifestyle behaviour consultations: A conversation analytical study of general practice29
Bringing personal perspective elicitation to the heart of shared decision-making: a scoping review28
The relationship between medical students’ empathy and burnout levels by gender and study years28
What matters to families about the healthcare of preterm or low birth weight infants: A qualitative evidence synthesis28
The effects of motivational interviewing on hypertension management: A systematic review and meta-analysis28
Developing “The Health After Cancer Podcast” to amplify cancer survivors’ voices through digital storytelling27
Dyadic concordance and other considerations for matching pairs for peer support diabetes prevention interventions: A mixed methods assessment27
Effects of a temporal self-regulation theory-based intervention on self-management in hemodialysis patients: A randomized controlled trial27
Health literacy friendly organizations – A scoping review about promoting health literacy in a surgical setting26
Contextualizing care: An essential and measurable clinical competency26
Acknowledging and addressing the many ethical aspects of disease26
Exploring student perceptions of empathy development during medical school – A phenomenological study25
Decision-making experiences of patients and partners opting for active surveillance in esophageal cancer treatment25
Co-design to increase implementation of insomnia guidelines in primary care25
Stage-based analysis of an adaptive worksite intervention trial for diabetes prevention25
A longitudinal study of third-year medical students’ communication competence, communication anxiety, and attitudes toward patient-centered care25
For which decisions is Shared Decision Making considered appropriate? – A systematic review25
Effects of reasoned treatment decision-making on parent-related outcomes: Results from a video-vignette experiment in neonatal care25
Psychosocial impacts of, and barriers to, lung cancer screening: An international qualitative study of multidisciplinary health professionals’ perspectives24
Let’s keep an eye on it: An experiment examining healthcare provider use of figurative language on perceptions of provider and accommodation24
Evaluation of a nurse-led multi-component transition program for adolescents with congenital heart disease24
Effects of a health psychology-based intervention for patients with asplenia on psychological determinants of preventive behaviour: A propensity score analysis24
Supportive and psychosocial peer-group interventions for children and adolescents of parents with cancer: A systematic review24
Understand nurse’s perspectives on communication with Chinese-speaking cardiac patients24
Shared decision making reimagined24
“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 public23
Limited health literacy in primary care physiotherapy: Does a physiotherapist use techniques to improve communication?23
Patient-centredness in healthcare: co-design for patient education material about insomnia22
Editorial Board22
Developing performance-based measures of health literacy: A narrative case study and checklist of considerations22
Association between self-perceived consultation time and understanding of the prescribed treatment: An analysis of a national survey in Peru22
Efficacy of DiaLife, an Education Program for Relatives of Adults with Diabetes – A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial22
Black Americans’ Perceptions of Communication and Other Factors during Oncology Care Virtual Visits22
Effect of a family planning program on documented emotional support and reproductive goals counseling after previable pregnancy loss22
(WIP) Student Perceptions of Clinical Communication Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education21
Medication Challenges in the Post-Stroke Patient: A Qualitative Study21
(WIP) Beyond 3rd-Person Personal Pronouns: Removing gender-language from written healthcare communication21
Positive oral communication enhances pain management strategies21
Challenges of public institutional communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.21
Exploring the relationship between GP and patient language use: The case of (un)explained symptoms21
From Manchester to Alexandria: Are there fundamentals of communication teaching20
(WIP) News coverage about cancer screening in the Netherlands: A content analysis20
Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy: A mixed-methods study of attitudes in a sample of Italian women and the role of health professionals’ communication20
Patient experiences and provider perspectives on genital surgery on young children with DSD20
(WIP) Towards culturally sensitive shared decision-making in oncology: A study protocol20
Communicating about clinical trials to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities20
Disassembling realities: A personal narrative20
Cracking the Deep Freeze20
Experiences with information provision and preferences for decision making of patients with stroke20
Assessment of the variability and accuracy of readability scores across online calculators20
How different dimensions of medical students’ empathy relate to mental health and burnout20
Where is Shared Decision Making in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma? A Qualitative Study20
Editorial Board19
Use of coping strategies in the management of medication overuse headache19
Primary care providers’ views of discussing COVID-19 vaccination with vaccine hesitant patients: A qualitative study19
Editorial Board19
Communication matters when it comes to adverse events: Associations of adverse events during implant treatment with patients’ communication quality and trust assessments19
Living with type 2 diabetes: A social cognitive perspective on adherence19
Understanding the varying social factors affecting pediatric participation during medical visits19
Speaking out of turn: Implications of partner contributions for patient autonomy during prostate cancer consultations19
Monitoring what matters to people with diabetes: Do we underestimate the importance of behaviour, attitude, and well-being?19
The impact of patient education on knowledge, attitudes, and cardiac rehabilitation attendance among patients with coronary artery disease18
Use of metaphor in provider-patient communication in medical settings: A systematic review18
Metaphor in a medical admissions tests18
Comprehensibility of South African pictograms by sub-Saharan African prospective-users18
Parental satisfaction with diagnosis disclosure: A study on parents of children or adults with genetic syndromes18
Breaking bad news: A randomized controlled trial to test a novel interactive course for medical students using blended learning18
A qualitative inquiry of communication based barriers to the diagnosis of pediatric cancer: Perceptions of primarily Spanish-speaking caregivers18
Quality of nurses communication and interpersonal skills18
Understanding how patient education affects the process of treatment decision-making: Cultural model change in kidney disease therapy18
Development of an adjective-selection measure evaluating clinicians’ attitudes towards using patient decision aids: The ADOPT measure18
Journey to inpatient hospice care: A qualitative study on the decision-making process of Chinese family caregivers of persons with terminal cancer18
The interplay between learners' planned behaviour and learning environment in CST: a PAR study18
Improved values- based goals of care documentation through interprofessional communication education18
Assessing the role of interactivity: An evaluation of information aids to support the enrollment of precision medicine research programs17
The paradox of autonomy: A discussion paper17
The use of a biopsychosocial model in the treatment of patients with chronic17
Credit where it’s due: Recognising lived experience in research authorship17
“Everything looks reassuring.”: Managing uncertainty during the emergency department discharge process17
Patient-reported outcome measures in value-based healthcare: A multiple methods study to assess patient-centredness17
Effectiveness of motivational interviewing among patients with COPD: A systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials17
Shared decision-making and the duration of medical consultations: A systematic review and meta-analysis17
The impact of mindfulness-based interventions on the experiences of cancer patients: A qualitative meta-synthesis17
Using patient-generated health data in clinical practice: How timing influences its function in rheumatology outpatient consultations17
Interventions to improve medication adherence in inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review17
Shared decision making with black patients: A scoping review17
Physician-directed information prescription service. A scoping review17
Effectiveness of self-management program for gastric cancer patients: A randomized controlled trial comparing gain vs. loss message framing17
Leading platform thuisarts.nl: understandable and reliable medical information for general public16
Tools and strategies for physiotherapists communication to patients with limited health literacy16
Increasing emotional intelligence for improved relationship-centered communication16
Towards a code of conduct for medical influencers16
Attributes, skills and resources required for peer health navigator roles: A qualitative study of the perspective of patients, healthcare professionals and health navigators16
Validation of the typology of healthcare interpreter positionings among healthcare practitioners16
Improving communication with patients with communication disabilities16
Assessing the mediating role of disenfranchising talk on the well-being of female patients with chronic overlapping pain conditions16
Tech tools unleashed: elevating your scientific productivity with AI and other software16
Developing implementation strategies to prevent venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer16
The first steps towards professional distance: A sequential analysis of students’ interactions with patients expressing emotional issues in medical interviews15
Exploring communication around end of life among spanish speaking families in pediatric ICU15
Teaching visual literacy to medical students, a scoping review on effective infographic design15
Effect of a discordant opinion offered by a second opinion physician on the patient’s decision for management of spinal disc disease15
Application of motivational interviewing to group: Teaching advance care planning via group visits for clinical professionals15
Stakeholder engagement (including PPI) in healthcare communication research and education15
Contextualising care by medical specialists in the Netherlands15
Exploring the impact of a pain assessment information visualization tool on provider-patient pain discussion with limited English proficiency Hmong patients15
The perspectives of participants with traumatic brain injury on prospective memory rehabilitation incorporating compensatory and metacognitive skills training15
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
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in patient engagement in healthcare interactions15
Is weight an emotional issue? Direct observation of weight discussions in primary care consultations14
Interprofessional counselling of oncology patients on complementary and integrative health care14
Relative importance of “why” and “how” messages on medication behavior: Insights from construal level theory14
Emotional cues and concerns of patients with a life limiting, chronic illness during advance care planning conversations in general practice14
Patient and practitioner priorities and concerns about primary healthcare interactions for osteoarthritis: A meta-ethnography14
Impact of personalized risk scores on shared decision making in left ventricular assist device implantation: Findings from a qualitative study14
Applying the RE-AIM framework to evaluate an educational model to “close the gap” and improve health equity in uncontrolled hypertension14
Coaching for parents of children with type 1 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial14
Treatment-related communication experiences and expectations among Indian cancer patients receiving radiation therapy and their family members: A qualitative study14
“Don’t worry, you can trust me”: Indicators of the role of trust in residents’ reflective writing14
An Empowerment Toolbox for Older People with Atrial Fibrillation: Results: from the AFFIRMO project14
Disparities in cancer clinical trials information-seeking: Findings from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service14
Validation of the Knowledge of Genome Sequencing (KOGS) scale in cancer patients14
Worldwide review with meta-analysis of women’s awareness about breast cancer14
Vaccine for yourself, your community, or your country? Examining audiences’ response to distance framing of COVID-19 vaccine messages14
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
Exercising power in the self-management of COPD: A narrative inquiry. Patient and user perspectives14
The use of outcome data in patient consultations from the healthcare professionals’ and patients’ perspectives: A mixed methods study14
Using real-time recordings to design communication training on how physicians discuss code status14
Factors affecting interest in multiple genetic tests in an ethnically diverse sample of young women14
Communication between healthcare providers and communicatively-vulnerable patients with associated health outcomes: A scoping review of knowledge syntheses14
Exploring factors to interpretation of targeted nutrition messages for people living with multiple sclerosis14
Promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy: A feasibility and pilot trial of a digital storytelling intervention delivered via text‐messaging14
Psychometric assessment of the Concerns about Late Effects in Oncology Questionnaire (CLEO) among female breast cancer survivors14
Patients' attitudes towards using a question prompt list in community pharmacies14
Does interprofessional communication change after introducing EPR? A qualitative network analysis14
Responding to nurses’ communication challenges: Evaluating a blended learning program for communication knowledge and skills for nurses14
Factors associated with patient activation in a socially deprived population: Evidence from Germany13
Visual presentations to communicate prognosis in adults: Two online randomised controlled trials13
Decision making about esophageal cancer treatment: variation in clinicians’ communication behavior13
Free Spirit13
Presenting scientifically-derived illness experiences online – Evaluation of the use of the DIPEx Germany website13
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
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
Education, trust, and likelihood to vaccinate against COVID-19 among patients with diabetes in the American South13
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
Health professionals’ view on the role of hope and communication challenges with patients in palliative care: A systematic narrative review13
Interaction between telenurses and callers – A deductive analysis of content and timing in telephone nursing calls13
Creating a Formal Partnership between EACH and the International Communication Association (ICA)13
Interventions to improve medical media reporting: a co-designed acceptability study with journalists13
(WIP) EPAs for assessment of communication skills competences during Family Medicine residency in Portugal13
Association between relational attitudes and a training in communication and emotion handling skills13
Communicating with children in healthcare: How can we make it better?13
Virtual reality training of bad news delivery in health care13
Does health literacy mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and navigation in the healthcare system? The French national health literacy survey (HLS19)12
The immediate, intermediate, and long-term effectiveness of audiovisuals for providing pre-treatment information to patients with cancer: A systematic review12
Promoting HIV self-testing via emotional support messages among men who have sex with men in China12
“Are you otherwise fit and well?”: Past medical history questions in UK paediatric consultations12
Substance use as subtext to health narratives: Identifying opportunities for improving care from community member perspectives12
A train-the-trainer educational program to improve professional skills in elderly diabetes care12
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
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
Validation of pharmaceutical pictograms among older adults with limited English proficiency12
Reflections on ‘common’ genetic medical history questions: Time to examine the what, why, and how12
Partnering with consumers to co-design a person-centred coding framework for qualitative patient experience data12
Improving communication post-spinal cord injury: a longitudinal qualitative study12
How clinicians' intentionally and unwittingly tailor treatment information to cancer patients12
Real needs of end-stage kidney disease patients awaiting kidney transplantation in China: A qualitative study12
The effect of mobile application based genetic counseling on the psychosocial well-being of thalassemia patients and caregivers: A randomized controlled trial12
Providers’ communication-related concerns in helping patients address the financial impact of cancer12
Developing communication curricula in healthcare education: An evidence-based guide12
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
Managing uncertainty and responding to difficult emotions: Cancer patients’ perspectives on clinician response during the COVID-19 pandemic12
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
Critical physician behaviors in the formation of a good physician-patient relationship: Concept mapping the perspective of patients with chronic conditions11
Myths and misinformation associated with vaccine incompleteness: A survey study11
Understanding young persons' experiences through healthcare transition. A qualitative study11
Discriminatory and valuing communication behaviors in cardiology encounters11
How do general practitioners manage patient health literacy differences in cardiovascular disease prevention consultations? An interview study11
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
Medical treatment decision-making in rural cancer patients: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis11
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
Development and validation of a new tool to assess quality of decision-making by older children and parents about research participation11
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
Access frequency, institutional empowerment and online health record use in later life11
Challenges facing introduction of communication skills into medical education in Iraq11
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
O.9.2Oncology nurses' perceptions of advance directives for patients with cancer11
O.17.1Communication Aids for the Clinical Child Protection Setting and Sexual Assault Examination11
PACCT: an intervention to increase clinical trial invitations for Black and White men with cancer11
On the nature of “evidence-based”11
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
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