Physiological linkage during interactions between doctors and cancer patients

Marta Vigier, Katherine R. Thorson, Elisabeth Andritsch, Herbert Stoeger, Leonie Suerth, Clemens Farkas and Andreas R. Schwerdtfeger

Social Science & Medicine, 2021, vol. 284, issue C

Abstract: Doctors and patients influence each other when interacting and, as a result, can become similar to each other in affect and behavior. In the current work, we examine whether they also become similar to each other on a moment-to-moment basis in their physiological responses. Specifically, we examine physiological linkage—how much a doctor's (or patient's) physiological response predicts a patient's (or doctor's) response at a subsequent time interval—and whether this changes over the course of doctor-patient relationships (measured as the number of consultations held for each unique doctor-patient dyad).

Keywords: Doctor-patient interaction; Doctor-patient relationships; Physiological linkage; Relationship length; Continuity of care; Oncology; Cancer; Non-linear dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114220

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