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The Self-Efficacy of Physicians to Communicate With Patients via Telemedicine in Lieu of Face-to-Face Visits in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Observational Study

Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has perpetuated the switch to increased use of telemedicine for initial consultations for physicians out of the necessity of reducing face-to-face contact. It has not been thoroughly studied whether physicians are as self-efficacious in...

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Autores principales: Rikhy, Rahul S, Dela Cruz, Janelyn, Rattan, Arunima, Bibi, Ayesha, Rangrej, Shahid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9177218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35702637
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25739
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author Rikhy, Rahul S
Dela Cruz, Janelyn
Rattan, Arunima
Bibi, Ayesha
Rangrej, Shahid
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Dela Cruz, Janelyn
Rattan, Arunima
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description Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has perpetuated the switch to increased use of telemedicine for initial consultations for physicians out of the necessity of reducing face-to-face contact. It has not been thoroughly studied whether physicians are as self-efficacious in their ability to communicate virtually versus in person considering the natural difficulty of obtaining some objective data points such as those coming from physical examination techniques via telemedicine. Methods: The Self Efficacy-12 (SE-12) questionnaire, a physician validated objective measure, was used to assess 101 physicians (96% response rate) from 29 specialties for their self-efficacy when communicating with patients when consulting virtually versus in person. Results: There was a significant 32.43% decrease (p=<0.01) in physician self-efficacy when a patient was evaluated via telemedicine for the first time. Conclusion: The significant decrease in self-efficacy provides initial evidence that initial consultations should be done in person to maximize physician self-efficacy when communicating with patients.
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spelling pubmed-91772182022-06-13 The Self-Efficacy of Physicians to Communicate With Patients via Telemedicine in Lieu of Face-to-Face Visits in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Observational Study Rikhy, Rahul S Dela Cruz, Janelyn Rattan, Arunima Bibi, Ayesha Rangrej, Shahid Cureus Public Health Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has perpetuated the switch to increased use of telemedicine for initial consultations for physicians out of the necessity of reducing face-to-face contact. It has not been thoroughly studied whether physicians are as self-efficacious in their ability to communicate virtually versus in person considering the natural difficulty of obtaining some objective data points such as those coming from physical examination techniques via telemedicine. Methods: The Self Efficacy-12 (SE-12) questionnaire, a physician validated objective measure, was used to assess 101 physicians (96% response rate) from 29 specialties for their self-efficacy when communicating with patients when consulting virtually versus in person. Results: There was a significant 32.43% decrease (p=<0.01) in physician self-efficacy when a patient was evaluated via telemedicine for the first time. Conclusion: The significant decrease in self-efficacy provides initial evidence that initial consultations should be done in person to maximize physician self-efficacy when communicating with patients. Cureus 2022-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9177218/ /pubmed/35702637 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25739 Text en Copyright © 2022, Rikhy et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Rikhy, Rahul S
Dela Cruz, Janelyn
Rattan, Arunima
Bibi, Ayesha
Rangrej, Shahid
The Self-Efficacy of Physicians to Communicate With Patients via Telemedicine in Lieu of Face-to-Face Visits in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Observational Study
title The Self-Efficacy of Physicians to Communicate With Patients via Telemedicine in Lieu of Face-to-Face Visits in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Observational Study
title_full The Self-Efficacy of Physicians to Communicate With Patients via Telemedicine in Lieu of Face-to-Face Visits in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Observational Study
title_fullStr The Self-Efficacy of Physicians to Communicate With Patients via Telemedicine in Lieu of Face-to-Face Visits in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Observational Study
title_full_unstemmed The Self-Efficacy of Physicians to Communicate With Patients via Telemedicine in Lieu of Face-to-Face Visits in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Observational Study
title_short The Self-Efficacy of Physicians to Communicate With Patients via Telemedicine in Lieu of Face-to-Face Visits in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Observational Study
title_sort self-efficacy of physicians to communicate with patients via telemedicine in lieu of face-to-face visits in light of the covid-19 pandemic: an observational study
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9177218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35702637
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25739
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