Measuring physicians' humanistic attitudes, values, and behaviors.
This paper describes the reliability and validity of 10 easily administered and scored self-report measures of physicians' humanistic attitudes, values, and behaviors. This research also provides evidence that evaluations of physicians' humanistic behavior made by their outpatients, and non-physician staff with whom they worked, and the faculty physicians supervising them on inpatient ward rotations were positively and significantly correlated with one another. The potential usefulness of a multi-modal approach in evaluating humanistic physician attributes in which self-report measures are combined with direct feedback from all of those who interact with physicians is discussed.
Department of Medicine, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences 90024.
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Linn
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DiMatteo
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Robbins
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001519:Behavior; D026686:Beneficence; D002140:California; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine; D008297:Male; D009726:Nurses; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012945:Social Values; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D028722:Virtues