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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Navigating obstetric bad news: Insights from tertiary care medical teams148
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 study121
Content and quality of consumer websites providing information about human papillomavirus infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: An environmental scan105
Current communication practices for biomarker testing in non-small cell lung cancer: Exploring patient and clinician perspectives90
For which decisions is Shared Decision Making considered appropriate? – A systematic review88
The effect of preoperative education on postoperative pain and function after orthopedic surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis66
Acknowledging and addressing the many ethical aspects of disease64
Advancing communication skills in intensive care: Caring for relatives of critically ill patients62
A pre-visit video/question prompt list intervention to increase youth question-asking about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder during pediatric visits59
Healthcare professionals’ experiences of interprofessional collaboration in patient education: A systematic review59
Risk communication – the science of making “meaningful numbers” or the art of making “meaningful pictures”?58
Constructing an intervention to foster posttraumatic growth in people living with a life limiting illness and receiving palliative care: Participatory action research58
Introducing a brain health literacy framework to promote health equity for Latinos: A discussion paper56
Communication work among young breast cancer survivors52
The biographical approach: a narrative practice to improve patients' support and care50
Nurse-patient communication in complex situations: development of dynamic, generalizable scenarios50
Integrating natural language processing (NLP) into health communication research and practice49
Patient-centred communication to improve patient safety47
From 0 to 100: self-management in individuals with spinal cord injury after initial rehabilitation46
Co-designing communication research within family practice: experiences from Basque Country, Spain45
Development of a rubric assessment form for evaluating communication skills of pharmacy students45
Developing “The Health After Cancer Podcast” to amplify cancer survivors’ voices through digital storytelling44
Dyadic concordance and other considerations for matching pairs for peer support diabetes prevention interventions: A mixed methods assessment42
Argumentative discourse in clinical dialogues: An interdisciplinary perspective42
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 disease42
The effect of nurse-led empowering education on nutrition impact side effects in patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A randomised trial41
Bringing personal perspective elicitation to the heart of shared decision-making: a scoping review40
A communication training for pharmacy staff to improve the conversation about medication switches39
Innovative Communication Skills Training for First and Second Year Medical Students37
Prostate cancer, online health information and communication technology – Bibliometric analysis of field with research frontiers37
Switching to remote public service interpreting with the help of training during the pandemic37
Cancer care partners’ behavioral intention to use autonomy enhancing communication skills during accompanied visits after online skill training.35
Methods: to elicit and evaluate the attainment of patient goals in older adults: a scoping review35
The use of AccuRx in collection of Friends and Family Test data in a primary care network35
Train the trainer-certificate-programme for teachers of medical-therapeutic health professionals35
The relationship between medical students’ empathy and burnout levels by gender and study years33
Postpartum Blues33
Corrigendum to “Instruments evaluating the duration and pace of clinical encounters: A scoping review” [Patient Educ Couns 131 (2025) 108591]32
Racial and ethnic disparities in communication study enrollment for young people with cancer: A descriptive analysis of the literature32
Investigating question-answer sequences in child mental health assessments: Engaging children and families through declarative question design32
Studying clinical communication through multiple lenses: The underused potential of inter-disciplinary collaborations32
Exploring health advice by dental professionals in USA: A secondary data analysis of NHANES (2015–2018)32
“My gut feeling is…”: Identifying healthcare professionals communication about pain in rheumatology32
Psychometric properties of the revised Diabetes Knowledge Test using Rasch analysis32
Applying the health belief model to the rational use of drugs for hemodialysis patients: A randomized controlled trial31
The effects of motivational interviewing on hypertension management: A systematic review and meta-analysis31
The role of accountability in adherence programs30
Effects of a temporal self-regulation theory-based intervention on self-management in hemodialysis patients: A randomized controlled trial30
GP laughter in lifestyle behaviour consultations: A conversation analytical study of general practice30
Personalised written consultation summaries for patients: An ‘up-close, in-depth, inside-out’ exploration of a rheumatologist's patient-centred strategy29
Information needs across time after a hematological cancer diagnosis: A qualitative study of patient and clinician perspectives29
Exploring uncertainties regarding unsolicited findings in genetic testing29
What matters to families about the healthcare of preterm or low birth weight infants: A qualitative evidence synthesis29
Influence of patient-oriented organizational climate on physicians’ patient-centered behavior: The mediating role of patient-centeredness self-efficacy28
“Letter to my future self” as a device for assessing health education effectiveness28
Contextualizing care: An essential and measurable clinical competency28
Health literacy friendly organizations – A scoping review about promoting health literacy in a surgical setting27
Practitioner accounts of end-of-life communication in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan: A systematic review27
Let’s keep an eye on it: An experiment examining healthcare provider use of figurative language on perceptions of provider and accommodation26
Measures to evaluate clinician communication in the intensive care unit: A systematic review of measurement properties26
Psychosocial impacts of, and barriers to, lung cancer screening: An international qualitative study of multidisciplinary health professionals’ perspectives26
Exploring the validity of US Pharmacopeia pictograms among young Spanish citizens who have completed secondary education26
Understand nurse’s perspectives on communication with Chinese-speaking cardiac patients25
Understanding how patient education affects the process of treatment decision-making: Cultural model change in kidney disease therapy25
Decision-making experiences of patients and partners opting for active surveillance in esophageal cancer treatment25
Editorial Board25
Effects of reasoned treatment decision-making on parent-related outcomes: Results from a video-vignette experiment in neonatal care25
Use of metaphor in provider-patient communication in medical settings: A systematic review24
Monitoring what matters to people with diabetes: Do we underestimate the importance of behaviour, attitude, and well-being?24
Exploring student perceptions of empathy development during medical school – A phenomenological study24
Living with type 2 diabetes: A social cognitive perspective on adherence24
Patient-reported outcome measures in value-based healthcare: A multiple methods study to assess patient-centredness24
Shared decision-making and the duration of medical consultations: A systematic review and meta-analysis23
The interplay between learners' planned behaviour and learning environment in CST: a PAR study23
Quality of nurses communication and interpersonal skills23
The paradox of autonomy: A discussion paper23
Shared decision making reimagined23
Primary care providers’ views of discussing COVID-19 vaccination with vaccine hesitant patients: A qualitative study22
Effects of a health psychology-based intervention for patients with asplenia on psychological determinants of preventive behaviour: A propensity score analysis22
From Manchester to Alexandria: Are there fundamentals of communication teaching22
Positive oral communication enhances pain management strategies22
Comprehensibility of South African pictograms by sub-Saharan African prospective-users22
Efficacy of DiaLife, an Education Program for Relatives of Adults with Diabetes – A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial22
Black Americans’ Perceptions of Communication and Other Factors during Oncology Care Virtual Visits22
Metaphor in a medical admissions tests22
Improved values- based goals of care documentation through interprofessional communication education22
Parental satisfaction with diagnosis disclosure: A study on parents of children or adults with genetic syndromes22
Assessment of the variability and accuracy of readability scores across online calculators22
(WIP) Beyond 3rd-Person Personal Pronouns: Removing gender-language from written healthcare communication22
Exploring the relationship between GP and patient language use: The case of (un)explained symptoms21
Patient experiences and provider perspectives on genital surgery on young children with DSD21
“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 public21
How different dimensions of medical students’ empathy relate to mental health and burnout21
(WIP) News coverage about cancer screening in the Netherlands: A content analysis21
Medication Challenges in the Post-Stroke Patient: A Qualitative Study21
Challenges of public institutional communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.20
Development of an adjective-selection measure evaluating clinicians’ attitudes towards using patient decision aids: The ADOPT measure20
Supportive and psychosocial peer-group interventions for children and adolescents of parents with cancer: A systematic review20
(WIP) Towards culturally sensitive shared decision-making in oncology: A study protocol20
Experiences with information provision and preferences for decision making of patients with stroke20
Using patient-generated health data in clinical practice: How timing influences its function in rheumatology outpatient consultations20
A longitudinal study of third-year medical students’ communication competence, communication anxiety, and attitudes toward patient-centered care20
Communicating about clinical trials to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities20
Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy: A mixed-methods study of attitudes in a sample of Italian women and the role of health professionals’ communication20
(WIP) Student Perceptions of Clinical Communication Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education20
Breaking bad news: A randomized controlled trial to test a novel interactive course for medical students using blended learning20
Patient-centredness in healthcare: co-design for patient education material about insomnia20
Cracking the Deep Freeze19
Effect of a family planning program on documented emotional support and reproductive goals counseling after previable pregnancy loss19
Speaking out of turn: Implications of partner contributions for patient autonomy during prostate cancer consultations19
Stage-based analysis of an adaptive worksite intervention trial for diabetes prevention19
Disassembling realities: A personal narrative19
Communication matters when it comes to adverse events: Associations of adverse events during implant treatment with patients’ communication quality and trust assessments19
A qualitative inquiry of communication based barriers to the diagnosis of pediatric cancer: Perceptions of primarily Spanish-speaking caregivers19
Journey to inpatient hospice care: A qualitative study on the decision-making process of Chinese family caregivers of persons with terminal cancer19
Where is Shared Decision Making in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma? A Qualitative Study18
Co-design to increase implementation of insomnia guidelines in primary care18
Editorial Board18
Editorial Board18
Effectiveness of motivational interviewing among patients with COPD: A systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials18
Association between self-perceived consultation time and understanding of the prescribed treatment: An analysis of a national survey in Peru18
Use of coping strategies in the management of medication overuse headache18
Understanding the varying social factors affecting pediatric participation during medical visits18
Assessing the role of interactivity: An evaluation of information aids to support the enrollment of precision medicine research programs18
Risk communication of study drug side effects: An evaluation of informed consent forms from ClinicalTrials.gov17
Patients' attitudes towards using a question prompt list in community pharmacies17
Communicating with children in healthcare: How can we make it better?17
The use of outcome data in patient consultations from the healthcare professionals’ and patients’ perspectives: A mixed methods study17
Interventions to improve medication adherence in inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review17
The use of a biopsychosocial model in the treatment of patients with chronic17
Effectiveness of self-management program for gastric cancer patients: A randomized controlled trial comparing gain vs. loss message framing17
Communication between healthcare providers and communicatively-vulnerable patients with associated health outcomes: A scoping review of knowledge syntheses17
Assessing the mediating role of disenfranchising talk on the well-being of female patients with chronic overlapping pain conditions17
A theory-based educational intervention to increase mothers’ intention to vaccinate their daughters against human papillomavirus: A randomised controlled trial17
The impact of mindfulness-based interventions on the experiences of cancer patients: A qualitative meta-synthesis17
Evaluation of a nurse-led multi-component transition program for adolescents with congenital heart disease17
Credit where it’s due: Recognising lived experience in research authorship17
The impact of patient education on knowledge, attitudes, and cardiac rehabilitation attendance among patients with coronary artery disease17
Worldwide review with meta-analysis of women’s awareness about breast cancer17
Application of motivational interviewing to group: Teaching advance care planning via group visits for clinical professionals17
Shared decision making with black patients: A scoping review17
Limited health literacy in primary care physiotherapy: Does a physiotherapist use techniques to improve communication?17
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in patient engagement in healthcare interactions16
Factors affecting interest in multiple genetic tests in an ethnically diverse sample of young women16
Interprofessional counselling of oncology patients on complementary and integrative health care16
Is weight an emotional issue? Direct observation of weight discussions in primary care consultations16
Effect of a discordant opinion offered by a second opinion physician on the patient’s decision for management of spinal disc disease16
Using real-time recordings to design communication training on how physicians discuss code status16
An Empowerment Toolbox for Older People with Atrial Fibrillation: Results: from the AFFIRMO project16
Psychometric assessment of the Concerns about Late Effects in Oncology Questionnaire (CLEO) among female breast cancer survivors16
Exploring the impact of a pain assessment information visualization tool on provider-patient pain discussion with limited English proficiency Hmong patients16
Does interprofessional communication change after introducing EPR? A qualitative network analysis16
Health professionals’ view on the role of hope and communication challenges with patients in palliative care: A systematic narrative review15
Exercising power in the self-management of COPD: A narrative inquiry. Patient and user perspectives15
The perspectives of participants with traumatic brain injury on prospective memory rehabilitation incorporating compensatory and metacognitive skills training15
Promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy: A feasibility and pilot trial of a digital storytelling intervention delivered via text‐messaging15
“Don’t worry, you can trust me”: Indicators of the role of trust in residents’ reflective writing15
Coaching for parents of children with type 1 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial15
Exploring factors to interpretation of targeted nutrition messages for people living with multiple sclerosis15
Responding to nurses’ communication challenges: Evaluating a blended learning program for communication knowledge and skills for nurses15
Physician-directed information prescription service. A scoping review15
Impact of personalized risk scores on shared decision making in left ventricular assist device implantation: Findings from a qualitative study15
Interaction between telenurses and callers – A deductive analysis of content and timing in telephone nursing calls15
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
The first steps towards professional distance: A sequential analysis of students’ interactions with patients expressing emotional issues in medical interviews15
Applying the RE-AIM framework to evaluate an educational model to “close the gap” and improve health equity in uncontrolled hypertension15
Improving communication with patients with communication disabilities14
Validation of the Knowledge of Genome Sequencing (KOGS) scale in cancer patients14
Teaching visual literacy to medical students, a scoping review on effective infographic design14
Contextualising care by medical specialists in the Netherlands14
Stakeholder engagement (including PPI) in healthcare communication research and education14
Tech tools unleashed: elevating your scientific productivity with AI and other software14
Towards a code of conduct for medical influencers14
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
Validation of the typology of healthcare interpreter positionings among healthcare practitioners14
Treatment-related communication experiences and expectations among Indian cancer patients receiving radiation therapy and their family members: A qualitative study14
Disparities in cancer clinical trials information-seeking: Findings from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service14
Exploring communication around end of life among spanish speaking families in pediatric ICU14
Increasing emotional intelligence for improved relationship-centered communication14
Tools and strategies for physiotherapists communication to patients with limited health literacy14
Patient and practitioner priorities and concerns about primary healthcare interactions for osteoarthritis: A meta-ethnography14
Virtual reality training of bad news delivery in health care14
Patients' perceptions of communication during in-person and telehealth oncology visits14
Factors associated with patient activation in a socially deprived population: Evidence from Germany14
Developing implementation strategies to prevent venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer14
Leading platform thuisarts.nl: understandable and reliable medical information for general public14
Decision making about esophageal cancer treatment: variation in clinicians’ communication behavior13
Experiential approaches to professional communication skills training: a grounded theory study13
Myths and misinformation associated with vaccine incompleteness: A survey study13
Discrepancies in subjective vs. objective health literacy assessments in older adults13
Substance use as subtext to health narratives: Identifying opportunities for improving care from community member perspectives13
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
Relative importance of “why” and “how” messages on medication behavior: Insights from construal level theory13
Vaccine for yourself, your community, or your country? Examining audiences’ response to distance framing of COVID-19 vaccine messages13
Developing communication curricula in healthcare education: An evidence-based guide13
Critical physician behaviors in the formation of a good physician-patient relationship: Concept mapping the perspective of patients with chronic conditions13
A train-the-trainer educational program to improve professional skills in elderly diabetes care13
Understanding young persons' experiences through healthcare transition. A qualitative study13
Between and within race differences in patient-centeredness and activation in mental health care13
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
Presenting scientifically-derived illness experiences online – Evaluation of the use of the DIPEx Germany website13
Attributes, skills and resources required for peer health navigator roles: A qualitative study of the perspective of patients, healthcare professionals and health navigators13
Educational gains from video feedback activity: the perception of general practice trainees13
Free spirit13
Interventions to improve medical media reporting: a co-designed acceptability study with journalists13
Teaching approaches for dialogue in a digital simulation13
Developing an audio-based communication tool for NICU discharge of Latino families with limited English proficiency13
Improving communication post-spinal cord injury: a longitudinal qualitative study13
Does health literacy mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and navigation in the healthcare system? The French national health literacy survey (HLS19)13
Emotional cues and concerns of patients with a life limiting, chronic illness during advance care planning conversations in general practice13
How clinicians' intentionally and unwittingly tailor treatment information to cancer patients13
Promoting HIV self-testing via emotional support messages among men who have sex with men in China13
Partnering with consumers to co-design a person-centred coding framework for qualitative patient experience data12
Providers’ communication-related concerns in helping patients address the financial impact of cancer12
Editorial Board12
How is complementary medicine discussed in oncology? Observing real-life communication between clinicians and patients with advanced cancer12
Managing uncertainty and responding to difficult emotions: Cancer patients’ perspectives on clinician response during the COVID-19 pandemic12
Education, trust, and likelihood to vaccinate against COVID-19 among patients with diabetes in the American South12
A family doctor contends with the unspoken face of the corona pandemic for the Reflective Practice section12
Designing a Course on Communication in Healthcare for Undergraduate Medical Students12
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
“Are you otherwise fit and well?”: Past medical history questions in UK paediatric consultations12
Reflections on ‘common’ genetic medical history questions: Time to examine the what, why, and how12
Medical treatment decision-making in rural cancer patients: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis12
Validation of pharmaceutical pictograms among older adults with limited English proficiency12
Intensifying approaches to address clinical inertia among cardiovascular disease risk factors: A narrative review12
Creating a Formal Partnership between EACH and the International Communication Association (ICA)12
Family involvement and diabetes distress across dyads for adults with type 2 diabetes12
Visual presentations to communicate prognosis in adults: Two online randomised controlled trials12
Conversation starters: Understanding the facilitators and barriers to physician-initiated secure firearm storage conversations12
Real needs of end-stage kidney disease patients awaiting kidney transplantation in China: A qualitative study12
Current status and implementation strategies of patient education in core outcome set development12
A multi-site prospective controlled pilot evaluation of Cardiac College for Women in the cardiac rehabilitation setting12
Corrigendum to “Promoting interactional health equity through (Complementary and Integrative Health) talk during clinical encounters” [Patient Educ Couns 134 (2025) 108651]12
Improving iron folic acid consumption through interpersonal communication: Findings from the Reduction in Anemia through Normative Innovations (RANI) project12
Association between relational attitudes and a training in communication and emotion handling skills12
(WIP) EPAs for assessment of communication skills competences during Family Medicine residency in Portugal12
“Can we have a little humanity here?”: Patient perspectives on the impact of a standardized care process for patients who use opioids for the management of chronic pain11
O.17.1Communication Aids for the Clinical Child Protection Setting and Sexual Assault Examination11
What do we know about written assessment of health professionals’ communication skills? A scoping review11
Structurally collecting patient feedback on trainee skills: A pilot study in Obstetrics and Gynaecology11
Evaluation of natural history communication and shared decision making for self-limiting conditions: Analysis of UK primary care consultations11
Patients’ and kin’s perspective on healthcare quality compared to Lachman's multidimensional quality model: Focus group interviews11
Using incorpoRATE to examine clinician willingness to engage in shared decision making: A study of Family Medicine residents11
A smartphone-based supportive counseling on health anxiety and acceptance of disability in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus patients: A randomized clinical trial11
Colorectal cancer treatment guidelines and shared decision making quality and reporting assessment: Systematic review11
Trust, discrimination and preference for shared decision-making in adolescents diagnosed with depression: Implications from Chinese mental health professionals11
On the nature of “evidence-based”11
Family carers’ experiences of managing older relative’s medications: Insights from the MEMORABLE study11
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