Patient Education and Counseling

Papers
(The median citation count of Patient Education and Counseling is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Navigating obstetric bad news: Insights from tertiary care medical teams197
Nurse-patient communication in complex situations: development of dynamic, generalizable scenarios145
Communication work among young breast cancer survivors129
From 0 to 100: self-management in individuals with spinal cord injury after initial rehabilitation89
Co-designing communication research within family practice: experiences from Basque Country, Spain82
Integrating natural language processing (NLP) into health communication research and practice81
Patient-centred communication to improve patient safety77
Development of a rubric assessment form for evaluating communication skills of pharmacy students70
The biographical approach: a narrative practice to improve patients' support and care67
Exploring uncertainties regarding unsolicited findings in genetic testing66
Constructing an intervention to foster posttraumatic growth in people living with a life limiting illness and receiving palliative care: Participatory action research63
GP laughter in lifestyle behaviour consultations: A conversation analytical study of general practice61
Personalised written consultation summaries for patients: An ‘up-close, in-depth, inside-out’ exploration of a rheumatologist's patient-centred strategy60
A communication training for pharmacy staff to improve the conversation about medication switches59
Bringing personal perspective elicitation to the heart of shared decision-making: a scoping review59
Innovative Communication Skills Training for First and Second Year Medical Students57
Switching to remote public service interpreting with the help of training during the pandemic54
Cancer care partners’ behavioral intention to use autonomy enhancing communication skills during accompanied visits after online skill training.53
Train the trainer-certificate-programme for teachers of medical-therapeutic health professionals52
The use of AccuRx in collection of Friends and Family Test data in a primary care network51
Methods: to elicit and evaluate the attainment of patient goals in older adults: a scoping review50
Exploring health advice by dental professionals in USA: A secondary data analysis of NHANES (2015–2018)48
“My gut feeling is…”: Identifying healthcare professionals communication about pain in rheumatology46
Investigating question-answer sequences in child mental health assessments: Engaging children and families through declarative question design44
Risk communication – the science of making “meaningful numbers” or the art of making “meaningful pictures”?43
Sharpening the lens: Resources to enhance methodological rigor in healthcare communication coding42
The effect of preoperative education on postoperative pain and function after orthopedic surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis42
Current communication practices for biomarker testing in non-small cell lung cancer: Exploring patient and clinician perspectives41
Introducing a brain health literacy framework to promote health equity for Latinos: A discussion paper41
The role of congruency in patient-doctor interactions: Insights from rare cancer consultations40
Adapting TikTok and behavioral economics for youth-centered HIV prevention and PrEP education in the Philippines39
Racial and ethnic disparities in communication study enrollment for young people with cancer: A descriptive analysis of the literature38
Developing “The Health After Cancer Podcast” to amplify cancer survivors’ voices through digital storytelling38
Prostate cancer, online health information and communication technology – Bibliometric analysis of field with research frontiers37
Influence of patient-oriented organizational climate on physicians’ patient-centered behavior: The mediating role of patient-centeredness self-efficacy37
Corrigendum to “Instruments evaluating the duration and pace of clinical encounters: A scoping review” [Patient Educ Couns 131 (2025) 108591]37
What matters to families about the healthcare of preterm or low birth weight infants: A qualitative evidence synthesis37
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 study37
Effects of a temporal self-regulation theory-based intervention on self-management in hemodialysis patients: A randomized controlled trial36
The role of accountability in adherence programs35
Argumentative discourse in clinical dialogues: An interdisciplinary perspective33
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 disease33
Dyadic concordance and other considerations for matching pairs for peer support diabetes prevention interventions: A mixed methods assessment33
Health literacy friendly organizations – A scoping review about promoting health literacy in a surgical setting33
Healthcare professionals’ experiences of interprofessional collaboration in patient education: A systematic review32
“Letter to my future self” as a device for assessing health education effectiveness32
Practitioner accounts of end-of-life communication in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan: A systematic review32
Studying clinical communication through multiple lenses: The underused potential of inter-disciplinary collaborations31
A pre-visit video/question prompt list intervention to increase youth question-asking about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder during pediatric visits31
Information needs across time after a hematological cancer diagnosis: A qualitative study of patient and clinician perspectives31
The effects of motivational interviewing on hypertension management: A systematic review and meta-analysis30
Editorial Board30
Content and quality of consumer websites providing information about human papillomavirus infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: An environmental scan30
Health literacy-sensitive communication in diabetes care: A qualitative exploration of interpersonal and policy-level factors30
For which decisions is Shared Decision Making considered appropriate? – A systematic review30
The effect of nurse-led empowering education on nutrition impact side effects in patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A randomised trial30
Understand nurse’s perspectives on communication with Chinese-speaking cardiac patients29
Decision-making experiences of patients and partners opting for active surveillance in esophageal cancer treatment29
Limited health literacy in primary care physiotherapy: Does a physiotherapist use techniques to improve communication?29
Assessment of the variability and accuracy of readability scores across online calculators28
Communication matters when it comes to adverse events: Associations of adverse events during implant treatment with patients’ communication quality and trust assessments28
From talk to text: Extending the arc of doctor patient communication research to real-time visit documentation28
Editorial Board27
The paradox of autonomy: A discussion paper27
Journey to inpatient hospice care: A qualitative study on the decision-making process of Chinese family caregivers of persons with terminal cancer27
Effectiveness of motivational interviewing among patients with COPD: A systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials27
Primary care providers’ views of discussing COVID-19 vaccination with vaccine hesitant patients: A qualitative study26
Exploring student perceptions of empathy development during medical school – A phenomenological study26
Supportive and psychosocial peer-group interventions for children and adolescents of parents with cancer: A systematic review26
Psychosocial impacts of, and barriers to, lung cancer screening: An international qualitative study of multidisciplinary health professionals’ perspectives25
Quality of nurses communication and interpersonal skills25
Improved values- based goals of care documentation through interprofessional communication education25
Shared decision making reimagined25
Metaphor in a medical admissions tests25
The interplay between learners' planned behaviour and learning environment in CST: a PAR study25
Monitoring what matters to people with diabetes: Do we underestimate the importance of behaviour, attitude, and well-being?25
The use of a biopsychosocial model in the treatment of patients with chronic24
Effects of a health psychology-based intervention for patients with asplenia on psychological determinants of preventive behaviour: A propensity score analysis24
(WIP) Beyond 3rd-Person Personal Pronouns: Removing gender-language from written healthcare communication24
Where is Shared Decision Making in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma? A Qualitative Study24
Positive oral communication enhances pain management strategies24
(WIP) News coverage about cancer screening in the Netherlands: A content analysis24
Exploring the validity of US Pharmacopeia pictograms among young Spanish citizens who have completed secondary education24
Efficacy of DiaLife, an Education Program for Relatives of Adults with Diabetes – A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial24
Black Americans’ Perceptions of Communication and Other Factors during Oncology Care Virtual Visits24
From Manchester to Alexandria: Are there fundamentals of communication teaching24
How different dimensions of medical students’ empathy relate to mental health and burnout23
(WIP) Towards culturally sensitive shared decision-making in oncology: A study protocol23
Patient-centredness in healthcare: co-design for patient education material about insomnia23
Medication Challenges in the Post-Stroke Patient: A Qualitative Study23
Patient experiences and provider perspectives on genital surgery on young children with DSD23
Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy: A mixed-methods study of attitudes in a sample of Italian women and the role of health professionals’ communication23
“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
Exploring the relationship between GP and patient language use: The case of (un)explained symptoms23
(WIP) Student Perceptions of Clinical Communication Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education23
Experiences with information provision and preferences for decision making of patients with stroke22
Co-design to increase implementation of insomnia guidelines in primary care22
Association between self-perceived consultation time and understanding of the prescribed treatment: An analysis of a national survey in Peru22
Editorial Board22
Challenges of public institutional communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.22
Cracking the Deep Freeze22
Speaking out of turn: Implications of partner contributions for patient autonomy during prostate cancer consultations22
Assessing the role of interactivity: An evaluation of information aids to support the enrollment of precision medicine research programs22
Communicating about clinical trials to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities22
Disassembling realities: A personal narrative22
Understanding the varying social factors affecting pediatric participation during medical visits22
Editorial Board22
Let’s keep an eye on it: An experiment examining healthcare provider use of figurative language on perceptions of provider and accommodation21
Pilot study: Training bilingual Hmong caregivers using the pain assessment information visualization tool for effective communication in healthcare21
Parental satisfaction with diagnosis disclosure: A study on parents of children or adults with genetic syndromes21
Shared decision-making and the duration of medical consultations: A systematic review and meta-analysis21
Shared decision making with black patients: A scoping review21
Use of metaphor in provider-patient communication in medical settings: A systematic review21
Designing a lifestyle intervention to optimise cardiometabolic health in high-risk prenatal and postnatal women: A pre-implementation study21
Stage-based analysis of an adaptive worksite intervention trial for diabetes prevention21
“Everything looks reassuring.”: Managing uncertainty during the emergency department discharge process21
A qualitative inquiry of communication based barriers to the diagnosis of pediatric cancer: Perceptions of primarily Spanish-speaking caregivers20
Understanding how patient education affects the process of treatment decision-making: Cultural model change in kidney disease therapy20
Effect of a family planning program on documented emotional support and reproductive goals counseling after previable pregnancy loss20
Effects of reasoned treatment decision-making on parent-related outcomes: Results from a video-vignette experiment in neonatal care20
Guided Self-Determination – What does “guided” mean in connection with self-determination?19
Evaluation of a nurse-led multi-component transition program for adolescents with congenital heart disease19
Virtual reality training of bad news delivery in health care19
Development of an adjective-selection measure evaluating clinicians’ attitudes towards using patient decision aids: The ADOPT measure19
Living with type 2 diabetes: A social cognitive perspective on adherence19
Measures to evaluate clinician communication in the intensive care unit: A systematic review of measurement properties19
Patient-reported outcome measures in value-based healthcare: A multiple methods study to assess patient-centredness19
Interventions to improve medication adherence in inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review19
Comprehensibility of South African pictograms by sub-Saharan African prospective-users19
Patients' attitudes towards using a question prompt list in community pharmacies19
Exercising power in the self-management of COPD: A narrative inquiry. Patient and user perspectives18
Coaching for parents of children with type 1 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial18
Communicating with children in healthcare: How can we make it better?18
Psychometric assessment of the Concerns about Late Effects in Oncology Questionnaire (CLEO) among female breast cancer survivors18
Exploring factors to interpretation of targeted nutrition messages for people living with multiple sclerosis18
Factors affecting interest in multiple genetic tests in an ethnically diverse sample of young women18
Changes in disease-related knowledge and educational needs of patients with coronary heart disease over a six-month period between hospital discharge and follow-up18
Measuring the use of spoken plain language by clinicians in healthcare encounters: A scoping review18
Is weight an emotional issue? Direct observation of weight discussions in primary care consultations17
Does interprofessional communication change after introducing EPR? A qualitative network analysis17
A theory-based educational intervention to increase mothers’ intention to vaccinate their daughters against human papillomavirus: A randomised controlled trial17
Towards a code of conduct for medical influencers17
Validation of the typology of healthcare interpreter positionings among healthcare practitioners17
Interprofessional counselling of oncology patients on complementary and integrative health care17
“Don’t worry, you can trust me”: Indicators of the role of trust in residents’ reflective writing17
Contextualising care by medical specialists in the Netherlands17
Application of motivational interviewing to group: Teaching advance care planning via group visits for clinical professionals17
Using real-time recordings to design communication training on how physicians discuss code status17
An Empowerment Toolbox for Older People with Atrial Fibrillation: Results: from the AFFIRMO project17
Presenting scientifically-derived illness experiences online – Evaluation of the use of the DIPEx Germany website17
Increasing emotional intelligence for improved relationship-centered communication17
Teaching visual literacy to medical students, a scoping review on effective infographic design17
Tools and strategies for physiotherapists communication to patients with limited health literacy16
Exploring communication around end of life among spanish speaking families in pediatric ICU16
Improving communication with patients with communication disabilities16
It is time to recognise shared decision-making as a complex intervention16
Patients' perceptions of communication during in-person and telehealth oncology visits16
Developing implementation strategies to prevent venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer16
Interaction between telenurses and callers – A deductive analysis of content and timing in telephone nursing calls16
Stakeholder engagement (including PPI) in healthcare communication research and education16
Leading platform thuisarts.nl: understandable and reliable medical information for general public16
Tech tools unleashed: elevating your scientific productivity with AI and other software16
Effectiveness of self-management program for gastric cancer patients: A randomized controlled trial comparing gain vs. loss message framing16
Disparities in cancer clinical trials information-seeking: Findings from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service15
Credit where it’s due: Recognising lived experience in research authorship15
Assessing the mediating role of disenfranchising talk on the well-being of female patients with chronic overlapping pain conditions15
The perspectives of participants with traumatic brain injury on prospective memory rehabilitation incorporating compensatory and metacognitive skills training15
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in patient engagement in healthcare interactions15
Physician-directed information prescription service. A scoping review15
Risk communication of study drug side effects: An evaluation of informed consent forms from ClinicalTrials.gov15
Applying the RE-AIM framework to evaluate an educational model to “close the gap” and improve health equity in uncontrolled hypertension15
Health professionals’ view on the role of hope and communication challenges with patients in palliative care: A systematic narrative review15
Impact of personalized risk scores on shared decision making in left ventricular assist device implantation: Findings from a qualitative study15
The impact of mindfulness-based interventions on the experiences of cancer patients: A qualitative meta-synthesis15
Exploring the cultural factors affecting E-cigarette use among young adults in China: Utilizing the PEN-3 cultural model15
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 patients15
Relative importance of “why” and “how” messages on medication behavior: Insights from construal level theory15
Validation of the Knowledge of Genome Sequencing (KOGS) scale in cancer patients15
Patient and practitioner priorities and concerns about primary healthcare interactions for osteoarthritis: A meta-ethnography15
Attributes, skills and resources required for peer health navigator roles: A qualitative study of the perspective of patients, healthcare professionals and health navigators15
Exploring the impact of a pain assessment information visualization tool on provider-patient pain discussion with limited English proficiency Hmong patients15
Emotional cues and concerns of patients with a life limiting, chronic illness during advance care planning conversations in general practice15
Promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy: A feasibility and pilot trial of a digital storytelling intervention delivered via text‐messaging15
A multi-site prospective controlled pilot evaluation of Cardiac College for Women in the cardiac rehabilitation setting14
Worldwide review with meta-analysis of women’s awareness about breast cancer14
How clinicians' intentionally and unwittingly tailor treatment information to cancer patients14
Educational gains from video feedback activity: the perception of general practice trainees14
Discrepancies in subjective vs. objective health literacy assessments in older adults14
Experiential approaches to professional communication skills training: a grounded theory study14
Teaching approaches for dialogue in a digital simulation14
Promoting HIV self-testing via emotional support messages among men who have sex with men in China14
Shared decision-making, the working alliance, and patient-centered care: A simultaneous concept analysis and review of the literature14
The use of outcome data in patient consultations from the healthcare professionals’ and patients’ perspectives: A mixed methods study14
Improving communication post-spinal cord injury: a longitudinal qualitative study14
Patient and family-centered care among Middle Eastern and North African children living in the United States14
Interventions to improve medical media reporting: a co-designed acceptability study with journalists14
Free spirit14
Substance use as subtext to health narratives: Identifying opportunities for improving care from community member perspectives14
Communication between healthcare providers and communicatively-vulnerable patients with associated health outcomes: A scoping review of knowledge syntheses14
Responding to nurses’ communication challenges: Evaluating a blended learning program for communication knowledge and skills for nurses14
Treatment-related communication experiences and expectations among Indian cancer patients receiving radiation therapy and their family members: A qualitative study14
Visual presentations to communicate prognosis in adults: Two online randomised controlled trials14
Corrigendum to “Promoting interactional health equity through (Complementary and Integrative Health) talk during clinical encounters” [Patient Educ Couns 134 (2025) 108651]14
Decision making about esophageal cancer treatment: variation in clinicians’ communication behavior14
A train-the-trainer educational program to improve professional skills in elderly diabetes care14
Family involvement and diabetes distress across dyads for adults with type 2 diabetes13
Understanding young persons' experiences through healthcare transition. A qualitative study13
Managing uncertainty and responding to difficult emotions: Cancer patients’ perspectives on clinician response during the COVID-19 pandemic13
The immediate, intermediate, and long-term effectiveness of audiovisuals for providing pre-treatment information to patients with cancer: A systematic review13
The effect of mobile application based genetic counseling on the psychosocial well-being of thalassemia patients and caregivers: A randomized controlled trial13
Association between relational attitudes and a training in communication and emotion handling skills13
Reflections on ‘common’ genetic medical history questions: Time to examine the what, why, and how13
Developing communication curricula in healthcare education: An evidence-based guide13
Providers’ communication-related concerns in helping patients address the financial impact of cancer13
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 (2013
Designing a Course on Communication in Healthcare for Undergraduate Medical Students13
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
Conversation starters: Understanding the facilitators and barriers to physician-initiated secure firearm storage conversations13
“Are you otherwise fit and well?”: Past medical history questions in UK paediatric consultations13
Current status and implementation strategies of patient education in core outcome set development13
Education, trust, and likelihood to vaccinate against COVID-19 among patients with diabetes in the American South13
(WIP) EPAs for assessment of communication skills competences during Family Medicine residency in Portugal13
Considerations for student-led telepractice in paediatric speech-language therapy during COVID-1912
Partnering with consumers to co-design a person-centred coding framework for qualitative patient experience data12
Medical treatment decision-making in rural cancer patients: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis12
Access frequency, institutional empowerment and online health record use in later life12
Communication strategies among Black pastors in South Carolina about the COVID-19 Vaccination12
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Disclosure Among Oncology Patients: Describing Current Trends12
PACCT: an intervention to increase clinical trial invitations for Black and White men with cancer12
How is complementary medicine discussed in oncology? Observing real-life communication between clinicians and patients with advanced cancer12
Real needs of end-stage kidney disease patients awaiting kidney transplantation in China: A qualitative study12
Does health literacy mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and navigation in the healthcare system? The French national health literacy survey (HLS19)12
O.9.2Oncology nurses' perceptions of advance directives for patients with cancer12
Medical students learn patient-centered communication from patients with chronic conditions12
(WIP) How Providers Screen and Communicate with Patients about Food Insecurity in the Primary Care Setting12
Personal health planning for patients with COPD: Staff perspectives from VA’s Whole Health system12
Myths and misinformation associated with vaccine incompleteness: A survey study12
Intensifying approaches to address clinical inertia among cardiovascular disease risk factors: A narrative review12
Developing an audio-based communication tool for NICU discharge of Latino families with limited English proficiency12
Editorial Board12
Effectiveness of remotely delivered motivational conversations on health outcomes in patients living with musculoskeletal conditions: A systematic review and meta-analysis12
Challenges facing introduction of communication skills into medical education in Iraq12
Stories Side-by-Side: A comparative narrative analysis of stories about end-of-life care12
Using incorpoRATE to examine clinician willingness to engage in shared decision making: A study of Family Medicine residents11
Evaluating the impact of social change communication strategies for cervical cancer prevention11
Clinical reasoning and decision-making in patient-RN consultations in primary care11
Effects of a self-determination theory-based course on physiotherapy students' interaction styles11
The moderating role of family functioning and self-compassion in the relation between intolerance of uncertainty and parental clinical decision-making style11
Exploring advanced clinical practitioners' responses to problem-tellings using conversation analysis11
Do medical students truly lose their empathy? a longitudinal study spanning the entire curriculum11
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