Measuring physicians' humanistic attitudes, values, and behaviors

Med Care. 1987 Jun;25(6):504-15. doi: 10.1097/00005650-198706000-00005.

Abstract

This paper describes the reliability and validity of 10 easily administered and scored self-report measures of physicians' humanistic attitudes, values, and behaviors. This research also provides evidence that evaluations of physicians' humanistic behavior made by their outpatients, and non-physician staff with whom they worked, and the faculty physicians supervising them on inpatient ward rotations were positively and significantly correlated with one another. The potential usefulness of a multi-modal approach in evaluating humanistic physician attributes in which self-report measures are combined with direct feedback from all of those who interact with physicians is discussed.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Attitude of Health Personnel*
  • Behavior*
  • Beneficence
  • California
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Empathy
  • Female
  • Humanism
  • Humans
  • Internal Medicine
  • Male
  • Nurses
  • Physicians / psychology*
  • Self-Assessment
  • Social Values*
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Virtues