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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Navigating obstetric bad news: Insights from tertiary care medical teams232
The role of accountability in adherence programs113
Personalised written consultation summaries for patients: An ‘up-close, in-depth, inside-out’ exploration of a rheumatologist's patient-centred strategy106
Studying clinical communication through multiple lenses: The underused potential of inter-disciplinary collaborations87
Cancer care partners’ behavioral intention to use autonomy enhancing communication skills during accompanied visits after online skill training.86
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 disease82
Current communication practices for biomarker testing in non-small cell lung cancer: Exploring patient and clinician perspectives64
Prostate cancer, online health information and communication technology – Bibliometric analysis of field with research frontiers61
Healthcare professionals’ behaviour regarding the implementation of shared decision-making in screening programmes: A systematic review59
Dyadic concordance and other considerations for matching pairs for peer support diabetes prevention interventions: A mixed methods assessment58
Involving caregivers in design and assessment of opioid risk and safety communication intervention in children55
Innovative Communication Skills Training for First and Second Year Medical Students51
Exploring health advice by dental professionals in USA: A secondary data analysis of NHANES (2015–2018)51
Investigating question-answer sequences in child mental health assessments: Engaging children and families through declarative question design51
“My gut feeling is…”: Identifying healthcare professionals communication about pain in rheumatology49
Bringing personal perspective elicitation to the heart of shared decision-making: a scoping review48
Methods: to elicit and evaluate the attainment of patient goals in older adults: a scoping review45
Train the trainer-certificate-programme for teachers of medical-therapeutic health professionals44
A communication training for pharmacy staff to improve the conversation about medication switches44
The use of AccuRx in collection of Friends and Family Test data in a primary care network43
Postpartum Blues41
Switching to remote public service interpreting with the help of training during the pandemic41
Psychometric properties of the revised Diabetes Knowledge Test using Rasch analysis40
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 study40
Effects of a temporal self-regulation theory-based intervention on self-management in hemodialysis patients: A randomized controlled trial40
Content and quality of consumer websites providing information about human papillomavirus infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: An environmental scan38
Warding off a tyranny of reliability and validity38
“Letter to my future self” as a device for assessing health education effectiveness37
What matters to families about the healthcare of preterm or low birth weight infants: A qualitative evidence synthesis36
Healthcare professionals’ experiences of interprofessional collaboration in patient education: A systematic review35
Contextualizing care: An essential and measurable clinical competency34
From 0 to 100: self-management in individuals with spinal cord injury after initial rehabilitation33
Communication work among young breast cancer survivors32
Co-designing communication research within family practice: experiences from Basque Country, Spain32
The biographical approach: a narrative practice to improve patients' support and care32
Patient-centred communication to improve patient safety32
Development of a rubric assessment form for evaluating communication skills of pharmacy students32
Integrating natural language processing (NLP) into health communication research and practice31
Nurse-patient communication in complex situations: development of dynamic, generalizable scenarios30
The effect of preoperative education on postoperative pain and function after orthopedic surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis30
Influence of patient-oriented organizational climate on physicians’ patient-centered behavior: The mediating role of patient-centeredness self-efficacy29
Acknowledging and addressing the many ethical aspects of disease29
Methods for analyzing actual communication: A shared decision making consultation under multiple methodological lenses28
Corrigendum to “Instruments evaluating the duration and pace of clinical encounters: A scoping review” [Patient Educ Couns 131 (2025) 108591]28
Information needs across time after a hematological cancer diagnosis: A qualitative study of patient and clinician perspectives28
Introducing a brain health literacy framework to promote health equity for Latinos: A discussion paper28
Health literacy friendly organizations – A scoping review about promoting health literacy in a surgical setting28
Advancing communication skills in intensive care: Caring for relatives of critically ill patients28
Argumentative discourse in clinical dialogues: An interdisciplinary perspective28
Exploring uncertainties regarding unsolicited findings in genetic testing28
Racial and ethnic disparities in communication study enrollment for young people with cancer: A descriptive analysis of the literature28
Developing “The Health After Cancer Podcast” to amplify cancer survivors’ voices through digital storytelling27
The relationship between medical students’ empathy and burnout levels by gender and study years27
A pre-visit video/question prompt list intervention to increase youth question-asking about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder during pediatric visits27
The effects of motivational interviewing on hypertension management: A systematic review and meta-analysis27
Applying the health belief model to the rational use of drugs for hemodialysis patients: A randomized controlled trial27
GP laughter in lifestyle behaviour consultations: A conversation analytical study of general practice27
Practitioner accounts of end-of-life communication in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan: A systematic review27
A longitudinal study of third-year medical students’ communication competence, communication anxiety, and attitudes toward patient-centered care26
For which decisions is Shared Decision Making considered appropriate? – A systematic review26
The effect of nurse-led empowering education on nutrition impact side effects in patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A randomised trial26
Exploring student perceptions of empathy development during medical school – A phenomenological study26
Risk communication – the science of making “meaningful numbers” or the art of making “meaningful pictures”?26
Effects of reasoned treatment decision-making on parent-related outcomes: Results from a video-vignette experiment in neonatal care25
Shared decision making reimagined25
Co-design to increase implementation of insomnia guidelines in primary care25
Decision-making experiences of patients and partners opting for active surveillance in esophageal cancer treatment25
Effect of a family planning program on documented emotional support and reproductive goals counseling after previable pregnancy loss24
Parental satisfaction with diagnosis disclosure: A study on parents of children or adults with genetic syndromes24
Stage-based analysis of an adaptive worksite intervention trial for diabetes prevention24
Effectiveness of motivational interviewing among patients with COPD: A systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials24
Limited health literacy in primary care physiotherapy: Does a physiotherapist use techniques to improve communication?23
Use of metaphor in provider-patient communication in medical settings: A systematic review23
Understand nurse’s perspectives on communication with Chinese-speaking cardiac patients23
Psychosocial impacts of, and barriers to, lung cancer screening: An international qualitative study of multidisciplinary health professionals’ perspectives23
Let’s keep an eye on it: An experiment examining healthcare provider use of figurative language on perceptions of provider and accommodation23
Shared decision making with black patients: A scoping review23
“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 public22
Interventions to improve medication adherence in inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review22
Supportive and psychosocial peer-group interventions for children and adolescents of parents with cancer: A systematic review22
Developing performance-based measures of health literacy: A narrative case study and checklist of considerations21
Breaking bad news: A randomized controlled trial to test a novel interactive course for medical students using blended learning21
Efficacy of DiaLife, an Education Program for Relatives of Adults with Diabetes – A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial21
Black Americans’ Perceptions of Communication and Other Factors during Oncology Care Virtual Visits21
Development of an adjective-selection measure evaluating clinicians’ attitudes towards using patient decision aids: The ADOPT measure21
Editorial Board21
Association between self-perceived consultation time and understanding of the prescribed treatment: An analysis of a national survey in Peru21
(WIP) Beyond 3rd-Person Personal Pronouns: Removing gender-language from written healthcare communication20
Exploring the relationship between GP and patient language use: The case of (un)explained symptoms20
Communicating about clinical trials to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities20
Assessment of the variability and accuracy of readability scores across online calculators20
Patient-centredness in healthcare: co-design for patient education material about insomnia20
Challenges of public institutional communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.20
Positive oral communication enhances pain management strategies20
(WIP) Student Perceptions of Clinical Communication Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education20
Medication Challenges in the Post-Stroke Patient: A Qualitative Study20
From Manchester to Alexandria: Are there fundamentals of communication teaching20
Disassembling realities: A personal narrative19
Cracking the Deep Freeze19
(WIP) Towards culturally sensitive shared decision-making in oncology: A study protocol19
Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy: A mixed-methods study of attitudes in a sample of Italian women and the role of health professionals’ communication19
How different dimensions of medical students’ empathy relate to mental health and burnout19
Where is Shared Decision Making in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma? A Qualitative Study19
(WIP) News coverage about cancer screening in the Netherlands: A content analysis19
Effects of a health psychology-based intervention for patients with asplenia on psychological determinants of preventive behaviour: A propensity score analysis19
Patient experiences and provider perspectives on genital surgery on young children with DSD19
Use of coping strategies in the management of medication overuse headache18
Understanding the varying social factors affecting pediatric participation during medical visits18
Communication matters when it comes to adverse events: Associations of adverse events during implant treatment with patients’ communication quality and trust assessments18
Experiences with information provision and preferences for decision making of patients with stroke18
Editorial Board18
Speaking out of turn: Implications of partner contributions for patient autonomy during prostate cancer consultations18
Editorial Board18
Identifying and classifying medical jargon through analysis of recorded standardized patient encounters18
Living with type 2 diabetes: A social cognitive perspective on adherence17
Assessing the role of interactivity: An evaluation of information aids to support the enrollment of precision medicine research programs17
Using patient-generated health data in clinical practice: How timing influences its function in rheumatology outpatient consultations17
Patient-reported outcome measures in value-based healthcare: A multiple methods study to assess patient-centredness17
The interplay between learners' planned behaviour and learning environment in CST: a PAR study17
Monitoring what matters to people with diabetes: Do we underestimate the importance of behaviour, attitude, and well-being?17
The use of a biopsychosocial model in the treatment of patients with chronic17
Improved values- based goals of care documentation through interprofessional communication education17
The impact of patient education on knowledge, attitudes, and cardiac rehabilitation attendance among patients with coronary artery disease17
Primary care providers’ views of discussing COVID-19 vaccination with vaccine hesitant patients: A qualitative study17
Development, validation and evaluation of a patient information booklet for rectal cancer survivors with a stoma: A three-step approach17
Quality of nurses communication and interpersonal skills17
Metaphor in a medical admissions tests17
A qualitative inquiry of communication based barriers to the diagnosis of pediatric cancer: Perceptions of primarily Spanish-speaking caregivers17
Physician-directed information prescription service. A scoping review16
Effect of a discordant opinion offered by a second opinion physician on the patient’s decision for management of spinal disc disease16
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in patient engagement in healthcare interactions16
The perspectives of participants with traumatic brain injury on prospective memory rehabilitation incorporating compensatory and metacognitive skills training16
Patient and family engagement strategies for children and adolescents with chronic diseases: A review of systematic reviews16
Comprehensibility of South African pictograms by sub-Saharan African prospective-users16
Credit where it’s due: Recognising lived experience in research authorship16
The first steps towards professional distance: A sequential analysis of students’ interactions with patients expressing emotional issues in medical interviews16
Application of motivational interviewing to group: Teaching advance care planning via group visits for clinical professionals16
Automated rating of patient and physician emotion in primary care visits16
Shared decision-making and the duration of medical consultations: A systematic review and meta-analysis16
Evaluation of a nurse-led multi-component transition program for adolescents with congenital heart disease16
Exploring factors to interpretation of targeted nutrition messages for people living with multiple sclerosis16
Exploring the impact of a pain assessment information visualization tool on provider-patient pain discussion with limited English proficiency Hmong patients16
Vaccine for yourself, your community, or your country? Examining audiences’ response to distance framing of COVID-19 vaccine messages16
Journey to inpatient hospice care: A qualitative study on the decision-making process of Chinese family caregivers of persons with terminal cancer16
“Don’t worry, you can trust me”: Indicators of the role of trust in residents’ reflective writing15
Factors affecting interest in multiple genetic tests in an ethnically diverse sample of young women15
Interprofessional counselling of oncology patients on complementary and integrative health care15
Psychometric assessment of the Concerns about Late Effects in Oncology Questionnaire (CLEO) among female breast cancer survivors15
Relative importance of “why” and “how” messages on medication behavior: Insights from construal level theory15
Using real-time recordings to design communication training on how physicians discuss code status15
An Empowerment Toolbox for Older People with Atrial Fibrillation: Results: from the AFFIRMO project15
Health professionals’ view on the role of hope and communication challenges with patients in palliative care: A systematic narrative review15
Does interprofessional communication change after introducing EPR? A qualitative network analysis15
Disparities in cancer clinical trials information-seeking: Findings from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service15
The use of outcome data in patient consultations from the healthcare professionals’ and patients’ perspectives: A mixed methods study15
Is weight an emotional issue? Direct observation of weight discussions in primary care consultations15
Treatment-related communication experiences and expectations among Indian cancer patients receiving radiation therapy and their family members: A qualitative study15
Virtual reality training of bad news delivery in health care15
Applying the RE-AIM framework to evaluate an educational model to “close the gap” and improve health equity in uncontrolled hypertension15
Validation of the Knowledge of Genome Sequencing (KOGS) scale in cancer patients15
Exercising power in the self-management of COPD: A narrative inquiry. Patient and user perspectives15
The impact of mindfulness-based interventions on the experiences of cancer patients: A qualitative meta-synthesis14
Impact of personalized risk scores on shared decision making in left ventricular assist device implantation: Findings from a qualitative study14
Stakeholder engagement (including PPI) in healthcare communication research and education14
A theory-based educational intervention to increase mothers’ intention to vaccinate their daughters against human papillomavirus: A randomised controlled trial14
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
Patient and practitioner priorities and concerns about primary healthcare interactions for osteoarthritis: A meta-ethnography14
Interaction between telenurses and callers – A deductive analysis of content and timing in telephone nursing calls14
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 patients14
Promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy: A feasibility and pilot trial of a digital storytelling intervention delivered via text‐messaging14
Worldwide review with meta-analysis of women’s awareness about breast cancer14
Towards a code of conduct for medical influencers14
Exploring communication around end of life among spanish speaking families in pediatric ICU14
Presenting scientifically-derived illness experiences online – Evaluation of the use of the DIPEx Germany website14
Communication between healthcare providers and communicatively-vulnerable patients with associated health outcomes: A scoping review of knowledge syntheses14
Coaching for parents of children with type 1 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial14
Development and psychometric testing of the European Heart Failure Self-Care behaviour scale caregiver version (EHFScB-C)14
Effectiveness of self-management program for gastric cancer patients: A randomized controlled trial comparing gain vs. loss message framing14
Improving communication with patients with communication disabilities14
Validation of the typology of healthcare interpreter positionings among healthcare practitioners14
Factors associated with patient activation in a socially deprived population: Evidence from Germany14
Patients' attitudes towards using a question prompt list in community pharmacies14
Emotional cues and concerns of patients with a life limiting, chronic illness during advance care planning conversations in general practice14
Communicating with children in healthcare: How can we make it better?14
Increasing emotional intelligence for improved relationship-centered communication13
Patients' perceptions of communication during in-person and telehealth oncology visits13
Mobile apps for weight management in children and adolescents; An updated systematic review13
Assessing the mediating role of disenfranchising talk on the well-being of female patients with chronic overlapping pain conditions13
Creating a Formal Partnership between EACH and the International Communication Association (ICA)13
Visual presentations to communicate prognosis in adults: Two online randomised controlled trials13
Decision making about esophageal cancer treatment: variation in clinicians’ communication behavior13
Relationship of patient-centered communication and cancer risk information avoidance: A social cognitive perspective13
Leading platform thuisarts.nl: understandable and reliable medical information for general public13
Tech tools unleashed: elevating your scientific productivity with AI and other software13
Contextualising care by medical specialists in the Netherlands13
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
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
Teaching visual literacy to medical students, a scoping review on effective infographic design13
Tools and strategies for physiotherapists communication to patients with limited health literacy13
Developing implementation strategies to prevent venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer13
Responding to nurses’ communication challenges: Evaluating a blended learning program for communication knowledge and skills for nurses13
Medical treatment decision-making in rural cancer patients: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis13
Association between relational attitudes and a training in communication and emotion handling skills13
Interventions to improve medical media reporting: a co-designed acceptability study with journalists13
Providers’ communication-related concerns in helping patients address the financial impact of cancer12
Current status and implementation strategies of patient education in core outcome set development12
Family involvement and diabetes distress across dyads for adults with type 2 diabetes12
Free Spirit12
The effect of mobile application based genetic counseling on the psychosocial well-being of thalassemia patients and caregivers: A randomized controlled trial12
Between and within race differences in patient-centeredness and activation in mental health care12
Myths and misinformation associated with vaccine incompleteness: A survey study12
Corrigendum to “Promoting interactional health equity through (Complementary and Integrative Health) talk during clinical encounters” [Patient Educ Couns 134 (2025) 108651]12
How is complementary medicine discussed in oncology? Observing real-life communication between clinicians and patients with advanced cancer12
Racial differences in patient perception of interactions with providers are associated with health outcomes in type II diabetes12
(WIP) EPAs for assessment of communication skills competences during Family Medicine residency in Portugal12
Education, trust, and likelihood to vaccinate against COVID-19 among patients with diabetes in the American South12
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
The immediate, intermediate, and long-term effectiveness of audiovisuals for providing pre-treatment information to patients with cancer: A systematic review12
Improving iron folic acid consumption through interpersonal communication: Findings from the Reduction in Anemia through Normative Innovations (RANI) project12
Reflections on ‘common’ genetic medical history questions: Time to examine the what, why, and how12
Promoting HIV self-testing via emotional support messages among men who have sex with men in China12
Substance use as subtext to health narratives: Identifying opportunities for improving care from community member perspectives12
Real needs of end-stage kidney disease patients awaiting kidney transplantation in China: A qualitative study12
Understanding young persons' experiences through healthcare transition. A qualitative study12
Managing uncertainty and responding to difficult emotions: Cancer patients’ perspectives on clinician response during the COVID-19 pandemic12
Access frequency, institutional empowerment and online health record use in later life11
Improving Veterinary Team Handovers using video reflexive techniques11
Considerations for student-led telepractice in paediatric speech-language therapy during COVID-1911
PACCT: an intervention to increase clinical trial invitations for Black and White men with cancer11
Developing an audio-based communication tool for NICU discharge of Latino families with limited English proficiency11
Communication strategies among Black pastors in South Carolina about the COVID-19 Vaccination11
Colorectal cancer treatment guidelines and shared decision making quality and reporting assessment: Systematic review11
How do general practitioners manage patient health literacy differences in cardiovascular disease prevention consultations? An interview study11
On the nature of “evidence-based”11
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
Personal health planning for patients with COPD: Staff perspectives from VA’s Whole Health system11
A family doctor contends with the unspoken face of the corona pandemic for the Reflective Practice section11
O.9.2Oncology nurses' perceptions of advance directives for patients with cancer11
Unpacking the relationship between shared decision-making and decisional quality, decision to screen, and screening completion in lung cancer screening11
Editorial Board11
Medical students learn patient-centered communication from patients with chronic conditions11
Challenges facing introduction of communication skills into medical education in Iraq11
O.17.1Communication Aids for the Clinical Child Protection Setting and Sexual Assault Examination11
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Disclosure Among Oncology Patients: Describing Current Trends11
How clinicians' intentionally and unwittingly tailor treatment information to cancer patients11
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
Discriminatory and valuing communication behaviors in cardiology encounters11
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