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Clinical Communication in Rehabilitation

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 3067

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Irene P. Carvalho

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Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
Interests: clinical communication; empathy; emotions; experiences; health metaphors; deviant behaviors
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Prof. Dr. Artemisa R Dores

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School of Health, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, 4200‑072 Porto, Portugal
Interests: (neuro)cognitive rehabilitation; clinical communication; behavioral addictions; gambling disorder; gaming disorder
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Rehabilitation can be a challenging process for both patients and healthcare professionals. Beyond the clinical setting, participants’ daily lives, including family members and daily occupations, can contribute to the quality of the rehabilitation process. The way in which healthcare professionals communicate and relate with the patient can play a central role in this process, including in the quality of patient participation and associated outcomes. Extensive research on clinical communication has been conducted in the fields of medicine and nursing, but much more research is also needed in other health areas. This Special Issue is focused on clinical communication in the field of rehabilitation. Topics include empathy, informing and planning, non-verbal aspects and features of the physical context, difficult situations and emotions, relation-, patient- and professional-centered approaches, or inter-professional interactions, in allied health areas such as physio-therapy, speech therapy, and those involving complementary exams such as radiology or cardio-pulmonology, cognitive rehabilitation, etc., in addition to medicine and nursing.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Prof. Dr. Irene P. Carvalho
Prof. Dr. Artemisa R Dores
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • patient–provider communication
  • empathy
  • emotions
  • difficult communications
  • interprofessional communication
  • neucognitive rehabilitation
  • bad news
  • health professionals

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Communicating Risks and Food Procedures through a Visual Poster for Caregivers of Patients with Dysphagia in Inpatient Care: Usability and Impact
by Rafaela Nogueira Neves, Maria Assunção Matos and Irene P. Carvalho
Healthcare 2024, 12(2), 148; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/healthcare12020148 - 09 Jan 2024
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Food-related procedures are a part of rehabilitation interventions for dysphagia. However, studies show that professional-caregiver communication is often lacking in dysphagia, risking caregivers’ knowledge, understanding, and practice of those procedures, with negative consequences for patient safety and rehabilitation. The aim of this study [...] Read more.
Food-related procedures are a part of rehabilitation interventions for dysphagia. However, studies show that professional-caregiver communication is often lacking in dysphagia, risking caregivers’ knowledge, understanding, and practice of those procedures, with negative consequences for patient safety and rehabilitation. The aim of this study was to evaluate caregivers’ perspectives about the utility of a poster designed to communicate dysphagia-related risks and food procedures for caregivers of patients in inpatient care. The impact of caregivers’ exposure to the poster on patients’ dysphagia-related health was additionally explored. The poster was placed by the beds of a randomly assigned group of patients (n = 21). Their caregivers responded to a questionnaire about the poster’s utility. In addition, to explore whether the caregiver exposure to the poster could already have some effect on patient dysphagia-related health, patient risk of aspiration, food swallowing capacity, nutritional status, and oral cavity health were assessed before and one month after placement of the poster, and the poster-exposed group was compared with a (randomly-assigned) non-exposed group (n = 21). Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and generalized linear models based on analyses of covariance. All caregivers across various education levels reported noticing, reading, and understanding the poster (100%). Nearly all reported that the poster added new information to their knowledge (17 out of 21). In the additional analysis, the patients in the poster-exposed group showed greater improvements in the health outcomes, compared with the non-exposed group, although the effects were statistically non-significant within this study’s one-month period. A poster with pictorial information was effective in increasing awareness about dysphagia-specific information among caregivers of patients in inpatient care and can be used as an augmentative means of information, with potential benefits for patient safety and rehabilitation. Full article
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Attitudes toward Patient-Centred Care, Empathy, and Assertiveness among Students in Rehabilitation Areas: A Longitudinal Study
by Ana Monteiro Grilo, Graça Vinagre, Margarida Custódio dos Santos, Joana Ferreira Martinho and Ana Isabel Gomes
Healthcare 2023, 11(20), 2803; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/healthcare11202803 - 23 Oct 2023
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This study assessed attitudes toward patient-centred care, empathy, assertiveness, and subjective perception of communication skills and technical knowledge among Portuguese undergraduate students in healthcare. These students may develop rehabilitation activities with patients in their person-oriented or technique-oriented professions. Portuguese nursing and allied health [...] Read more.
This study assessed attitudes toward patient-centred care, empathy, assertiveness, and subjective perception of communication skills and technical knowledge among Portuguese undergraduate students in healthcare. These students may develop rehabilitation activities with patients in their person-oriented or technique-oriented professions. Portuguese nursing and allied health students from two public higher education schools completed questionnaires in the first and third academic years: Patient-Practitioner Orientation Scale, Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy, Scale for Interpersonal Behaviour, and a subjective perception of technical knowledge and communication skills. A total of 183 students completed the surveys. In the first year, students showed moderate to high scores on patient-centredness attitudes, empathy, and assertiveness and perceived themselves as having good communication skills. Students from person-oriented programmes significantly improved their Total and shared patient-centred attitudes in the third year compared with students attending technique-oriented professions. Significant differences in empathy were found between groups in the third year. Distress associated with assertive behaviours increased significantly across time in students from technique-oriented programmes compared with their peers in person-oriented programmes. The results suggest that the health profession’s orientation and the programmes’ specific curriculum might have a role in how some dimensions evolved in the two groups of students. The increasing assertiveness-related discomfort highlighted the importance of assessing and monitoring students’ emotional wellbeing during their initial interactions with patients. Full article
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