[Effect of the physician's and the patient's sex on the clinical interview].
OBJECTIVE
To analyse differences attributable to the sex of the doctor and of the patient in the activities and content of the clinic appointment in Primary Attention.


METHODS
Analysis of interaction, in terms of activities and content, in 157 clinic appointments. SITE. General medical consultations in four Primary Attention Public Health Centres.


METHODS
Those who used the health services on the day of the study.


METHODS
Tape recording of the appointments.


RESULTS
The interviews were recorded. There were shown to be differences according to the sex of the doctor and of the patient in terms of the development and content of the interviews. The style of the woman doctor involved longer interviews with greater social content; in general sameness of sex (doctor and patient) led to greater mutual complementation in the interviews.


CONCLUSIONS
It has been shown that there are differences in the activities and content of the clinic appointments in Primary Attention which depend on the sex of the patient and doctor.
Hernández-Monsalve
L M
LM
Servicio de Salud Mental, Parla, Madrid.
García Olmos
L M
LM
Pérez Fernández
M M
MM
Gérvas
J
J
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000379:methods*; D010361:Patients; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians; D012737:Sex Factors
Influencia del sexo del médico y del paciente en la entrevista clínica.