Which medical interview skills are associated with patients’ verbal indications of undisclosed feelings of anxiety and depressive feelings?

Table 4 Estimated model of physician’s interview style on number of disclosure about anxiety by patients

Item	Crude^b				Modified^a
Item	Estimate	SE	z value	p	Estimate	SE	z value	p
Intercept^c	0.389	0.154	2.529	0.011	0.234	0.329	0.712	0.477
Open-ended questions	0.189	0.096	1.975	0.048	0.282	0.100	2.821	0.005
Close-ended questions	0.004	0.003	1.317	0.188	−0.008	0.004	−2.241	0.025
Focused questions	−0.008	0.008	−0.973	0.331	−0.018	0.009	−2.053	0.040
Survey questions	−0.044	0.031	−1.414	0.157	−0.041	0.032	−1.308	0.191
Requests for feelings	0.160	0.080	2.006	0.045	−0.004	0.080	−0.050	0.960
Meaning of the illness	0.207	0.069	2.995	0.003	0.157	0.070	2.256	0.024
Preference about examination	−0.077	0.093	−0.828	0.408	−0.033	0.092	−0.361	0.718
Summarization	−0.134	0.102	−1.317	0.188	−0.175	0.104	−1.683	0.092
Reflection	0.066	0.012	5.533	<0.001	0.066	0.013	5.195	<0.001
Legitimization	0.285	0.049	5.779	<0.001	0.205	0.051	4.014	<0.001
Personal support	0.009	0.092	0.093	0.926	−0.041	0.094	−0.435	0.663
Partnership	−0.982	0.593	−1.654	0.098	−0.543	0.607	−0.895	0.371
Respect for patients	0.070	0.024	2.899	0.004	−0.002	0.028	−0.079	0.937

Model was estimated using generalized linear model. Dependent variable was number of disclosure about anxiety
SE standard error
^aPatient’s sex, physician’s title, sex matching between the patient and the physician, and duration of interview were modified as covariates. AIC was 768.85
^bAkaike information criteria (AIC) was 810.00. AIC is an index of goodness of fit for the estimated model by generalized linear model
^cIntercept is the value of dependent variable when all the independent variables were zero

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