title: Racial attitudes, physician-patient talk time ratio, and adherence in racially discordant medical interactions.
abstract: Physician racial bias and patient perceived discrimination have each been found to influence perceptions of and feelings about racially discordant medical interactions. However, to our knowledge, no studies have examined how they may simultaneously influence the dynamics of these interactions. This study examined how (a) non-Black primary care physicians' explicit and implicit racial bias and (b) Black patients' perceived past discrimination affected physician-patient talk time ratio (i.e., the ratio of physician to patient talk time) during medical interactions and the relationship between this ratio and patients' subsequent adherence. We conducted a secondary analysis of self-report and video-recorded data from a prior study of clinical interactions between 112 low-income, Black patients and their 14 non-Black physicians at a primary care clinic in the Midwestern United States between June, 2006 and February, 2008. Overall, physicians talked more than patients; however, both physician bias and patient perceived past discrimination affected physician-patient talk time ratio. Non-Black physicians with higher levels of implicit, but not explicit, racial bias had larger physician-patient talk time ratios than did physicians with lower levels of implicit bias, indicating that physicians with more negative implicit racial attitudes talked more than physicians with less negative racial attitudes. Additionally, Black patients with higher levels of perceived discrimination had smaller physician-patient talk time ratios, indicating that patients with more negative racial attitudes talked more than patients with less negative racial attitudes. Finally, smaller physician-patient talk time ratios were associated with less patient subsequent adherence, indicating that patients who talked more during the racially discordant medical interactions were less likely to adhere subsequently. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed in the context of factors that affect the dynamics of racially discordant medical interactions.
authors: Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 808 West Franklin Street, PO Box 842018, Richmond, VA 23284-2018, USA. nhagiwara@vcu.edu
authors: Nao
authors: N
authors: Hagiwara
authors: Louis A
authors: LA
authors: Penner
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Gonzalez
authors: Susan
authors: S
authors: Eggly
authors: John F
authors: JF
authors: Dovidio
authors: Samuel L
authors: SL
authors: Gaertner
authors: Tessa
authors: T
authors: West
authors: Terrance L
authors: TL
authors: Albrecht
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015146:Midwestern United States; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011203:Poverty; D011287:Prejudice; D013997:Time Factors
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