Background: Stress and stress-related illnesses are increasing among medical specialists.
This threatens the quality of patient care. In this study we investigated (a) levels of job stress …

In this study, the relationship between (a) doctors’ and patients’ communication and (b) doctors’
patient-centredness during the oncological consultation and patients’ quality of life and …

Burnout is a long-term stress reaction seen primar-ily in the human service professions. It is
a “psychological syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced …

Objective: To evaluate the effect of a prophylactic gastrojejunostomy on the development of
gastric outlet obstruction and quality of life in patients with unresectable periampullary …

The objective is to show how structural equation modeling can be used to detect reconceptualization,
reprioritization, and recalibration response shifts in quality of life data from cancer …

Monitoring and blunting styles have become relevant concepts regarding their potential impact
on patients’ and doctors’ behaviors. The present study aimed at investigating the relation …

When measuring changes in quality of life (QL) with a pretest-posttest design, response shift
can affect results. We investigated the convergent validity of three approaches to detect …

OBJECTIVE: Response shift is generally associated with a change in the meaning of test
scores, impeding the comparison of repeated measurements. Still, different researchers have …

One of the most frequently used systems to analyse doctor–patient communication is the
Roter Interaction Analysis System (RIAS). However, it has mostly been applied and evaluated …

Background and Objectives Newly diagnosed cancer patients waiting for initial surgery
experience a stressful time. Study objectives were (1) to examine the quality of life (QL) of these …