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  • Title: Patient accounts for noncompliance with diabetes self-care regimens and physician compliance-gaining response.
    Author: Helme DW, Harrington NG.
    Journal: Patient Educ Couns; 2004 Nov; 55(2):281-92. PubMed ID: 15530766.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study was to identify diabetics' accounts for medical noncompliance, physicians' compliance-gaining strategies elicited in response to those accounts, and to examine the relationship between accounts and compliance-gaining strategies. Telephone surveys of diabetics from Kentucky and Tennessee assessed patient perceptions of physician-patient communication during their last diabetes treatment-related appointment. Eighty-four patients were able to provide categorical data for analysis. Patient account strategies for noncompliance were coded as concessions, excuses, justifications, and refusals. Physician compliance-gaining strategies were coded as positive-regard, negative-regard, or neutral-regard strategies. Results showed the most common patient account was concession (33%), then excuse (23%), justification (22%), and refusal (7%). The most common physician compliance-gaining strategy was neutral regard (54%), then positive regard (31%) and negative regard (15%). Results also indicated that patient account and physician compliance-gaining strategy were related. Specifically, concession accounts from patients elicited a subsequent neutral-regard compliance-gaining strategies from the physician in 76% of concession cases. Results also show that justifications were most likely to elicit neutral- (52%) or positive-regard (43%) strategies. Implications for physician practice and future research are discussed.
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