How Personality Can Affect Patient Outcomes

Working in any capacity whatsoever care, means dealing with people in a sometimes very personal level. We've all heard the term "bedside manner" and when it comes to a practitioner, it is very important, but even more than we realize.

How Personality Can Affect Patient Outcomes

A recent Dutch study found that having a good bedside manner (ie with a calm, relaxed, secure and resilient personality) results of patients actually improved.

The study, published in BioMed Central Health Services Research, compared the results of rehabilitation of patients with chronic diseases such as arthritis, heart disease, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes and how to put their own physiotherapists the personality test the index Big 5 BFI. Emotional stability test measurements, impulse control and tend to express unpleasant emotions. The higher the score, the more calm personality, more relaxed, secure and robust. The results of the study showed that patients with the worst results were treated with higher scores Physiotherapist the personality test.

These results show that our way of being, the way we deal with patients making a big impact on how to cure their. Anatomy, physiology and how to handle injury main target of education and certification as it should. Yet there is some support in how to run a bedside manner that supports the rehabilitation of a patient.

5 tips to promote positive patient outcomes

Educate: Most of the time, patients do not have the anatomy and physiology detailed education and can not understand diagnosis / damage that she found on Google. This can create a lot of stress and anxiety on the basis of misinformation sometimes. Be sure to provide educational resources, tools and take the time to ensure that your patient understands their problem and the road ahead rehabilitation.

Empathy: Some people have a fear or anxiety about anything medical. While others may have more of a fear of diagnosis or unexpected injury. Make sure you recognize these feelings and express the patient. It is not for us to get out their feelings, but to recognize their sentiments helps you feel well cared for.

Take care of yourself: Make sure you ate, hydrated and had enough sleep. More than that, make sure that you feel good emotionally as well. As is clear from the study result, negative emotions for patients, so make sure you take your health as seriously as you do your patients. The more you are well cared for, the more you can take care of others.

Present: physiotherapy sessions can sometimes go fast. However, this can create a race feeling as experienced patients when walking behind you. Be sure to breathe deeply and regularly, make good eye contact and be sure to make time in all aspects of the treatment that day to talk.

Stay open: Stay open to new research, new technologies and new treatment options. For example, say you hear about the therapy of low level laser for the treatment of TMJ, but have not yet tried. After confirmation of the research, patients appreciate it when therapists are willing to try new things to improve their results in the treatment try.

Physiotherapists wonderful teaching and I have not met one yet that has not been driven by a sincere desire and passion to help people. Creating a strong, take care bedside manner helps to emphasize and express the desire to have shown our patients and this research is a key element in patient outcome.