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Table 5 Estimated model of physician’s interview style on number of disclosure about depression by patients

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

Item Crudeb Modifieda
Estimate SE z value p Estimate SE z value p
Interceptc −2.478 0.440 −5.630 <0.001 −4.596 0.992 −4.634 <0.001
Open-ended questions −0.458 0.231 −1.984 0.047 −0.379 0.258 −1.469 0.142
Close-ended questions 0.014 0.008 1.793 0.073 −0.008 0.009 −0.924 0.355
Focused questions 0.029 0.012 2.379 0.017 0.004 0.013 0.325 0.745
Survey questions −0.089 0.049 −1.825 0.068 −0.115 0.052 −2.192 0.028
Requests for feelings 0.622 0.156 3.978 <0.001 0.049 0.158 0.313 0.754
Meaning of the illness 0.129 0.174 0.742 0.458 −0.065 0.194 −0.334 0.738
Preference about examination −0.559 0.242 −2.308 0.021 −0.085 0.230 −0.367 0.713
Summarization −0.008 0.264 −0.031 0.975 −0.179 0.297 −0.605 0.545
Reflection −0.010 0.030 −0.338 0.736 0.009 0.035 0.267 0.789
Legitimization 0.350 0.142 2.462 0.014 0.007 0.173 0.039 0.969
Personal support 0.068 0.150 0.454 0.650 −0.218 0.164 −1.331 0.183
Partnership −15.362 828.283 −0.019 0.985 −15.020 982.600 −0.015 0.988
Respect for patients 0.344 0.053 6.523 <0.001 0.215 0.065 3.293 0.001
  1. Model was estimated using generalized linear model. Dependent variable was number of disclosure about depression
  2. SE standard error
  3. aPatient’s sex, physician’s title, sex matching between the patient and the physician, and duration of interview were modified as covariates. AIC was 286.96
  4. bAkaike information criteria (AIC) was 322.39. AIC is an index of goodness of fit for the estimated model by generalized linear model
  5. cIntercept is the value of dependent variable when all the independent variables were zero