{"id":11701,"date":"2025-07-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/?p=11701"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:19:28","slug":"patients-who-feel-heard-are-more-likely-to-stick-with-medical-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/tl-dr\/patients-who-feel-heard-are-more-likely-to-stick-with-medical-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients who feel heard are more likely to stick with medical\u00a0treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the 2000s, when I worked as a psychologist in long-term elderly care and primary healthcare services, many of the patients I saw were living with chronic or complex conditions. These situations required that patients trust care providers, consistently adhere to treatments and, often, receive care over an extended period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what stood out to me were the differences in&nbsp;<em>how<\/em>&nbsp;those protocols were applied. Some practitioners took time to explain something clearly, asked questions that showed genuine care, or invited patients into a conversation about their treatment. I also noticed how differently patients responded when none of that happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quality of communication \u2013 the level of respect, attention and clarity \u2013 often made the difference between patients\u2019 cooperation and resistance, between their motivation and withdrawal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These observations led me to systematically investigate the psychological processes involved in how patients perceive fairness in healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I found,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12913-025-12461-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in collaboration with colleagues<\/a>, is that this \u201csoft\u201d dimension of care \u2013 how people perceive their treatment, how information is shared with them, and how much time and space they are given to take part in the process \u2013 has very real effects on behaviour. Patients\u2019 perception of respect \u2013 what we call\u00a0<em>interactional fairness<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 often hinges on whether they are given the chance to ask questions, make sense of information, weigh different options and even participate in making decisions. For patients to follow a practitioner\u2019s recommendations, they need to feel informed, heard, respected and involved \u2013 not just treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What fairness looks like in practice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12913-025-12461-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our study<\/a>, we examined two forms of what psychologists call\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordre.com\/psychology\/display\/10.1093\/acrefore\/9780190236557.001.0001\/acrefore-9780190236557-e-555?d=%2F10.1093%2Facrefore%2F9780190236557.001.0001%2Facrefore-9780190236557-e-555&amp;p=emailAMx12TLhM2IIg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>organisational justice<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in healthcare settings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Interactional justice \u2013 the sense of being treated with dignity, attentiveness and respect<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Informational justice \u2013 the perception that shared information is clear, complete, timely and relevant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We surveyed over 850 patients in Spain and the United States who had visited a healthcare provider in the previous six months. We asked them how they experienced their interactions with health professionals, how much they trusted those professionals, how satisfied they were with the service, whether they followed medical advice, and whether they intended to return to the same provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What we saw was a clear pattern. Patients who perceived fairness \u2013 being treated with respect and given clear and appropriate information \u2013 were more likely to trust their healthcare provider. That trust, in turn, shaped whether they felt able to engage with treatment and sustain their relationship with (or, in the language of our study, their \u201cloyalty\u201d to) the healthcare service or physician. What we call&nbsp;<em>informational fairness<\/em>&nbsp;had a particularly strong direct link to adherence to treatments or clinical advice, showing its importance for understanding patient behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In healthcare, patients are navigating uncertainty, vulnerability, and long-term relationships with systems and providers. Their ability to understand, participate in and trust that process is integral to care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Insights across borders<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the structural and institutional differences between Spain, with its predominantly public healthcare system, and the United States, where healthcare is largely organised through the private sector, our goal was to identify common patterns in how patients interpret and engage with services. Specifically, we sought to understand whether similar cognitive and emotional processes create the patient experience, regardless of the broader healthcare system in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealth.columbia.edu\/research\/population-health-methods\/path-analysis\">path analysis<\/a>&nbsp;models, we assessed the relationships between patients\u2019 perceptions of fairness and their resulting levels of trust and satisfaction, and then, the relationship between those perceptions and patients\u2019 adherence and loyalty to the service. While patients in the United States exhibited slightly stronger associations between perceived fairness and both trust and satisfaction, the overall nature of the relationships was highly consistent across both countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These findings suggest that despite differences in how care is delivered and financed, patients in both countries respond to their healthcare interactions in fundamentally similar ways. This matters for healthcare providers and policymakers across diverse settings who are aiming to enhance patient-centred care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recognising patients as agents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the heart of this is an ethical question: Are patients treated as agents in their own care, or simply as objects of intervention?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medicine is not a closed, flawless system. It is a developing field of research being translated into practice, and its shortcomings are shaped by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/11\/magazine\/black-mothers-babies-death-maternal-mortality.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">social and structural biases<\/a>, and by the fact that patients may not be given all of the options\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33353840\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">they should receive<\/a>. In areas such as women\u2019s health, chronic pain, mental health and rare diseases, patients often offer insights that clinical protocols miss. When their lived experience is ignored or dismissed, we lose opportunities for better diagnoses, more responsive and efficient care, and more sustainable treatment plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was working in elderly care, I remember the testimony of a resident who was very upset because his parenteral treatment (an injection) had been changed to an enteral one (a drink). Nobody informed him about the change. When I asked him why he was so unhappy, he said: \u201cI much preferred the injections because the clinician who came to administer them was very nice to me. We were friends. Now, I\u2019ll never see her again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not sure whether continuing with the parenteral administration was even possible, but what was certain is that nobody asked him what he preferred. And that had an impact on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listening to patients is not merely being polite: it is recognising that they have information that professionals lack. And that the ethical foundation of health care depends not only on what medical professionals do\u00a0<em>to<\/em>\u00a0patients, but on how they work\u00a0<em>with<\/em>\u00a0them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What can be done<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Creating fairer care involves the following concrete practices, which come from our findings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Designing information systems that support timely, accessible and patient-centred communication<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Designing procedures and allocating enough time for professionals to conduct themselves in accordance with interactional and informational fairness principles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Training for professionals in relational and communication skills that foster patients\u2019 perceptions of respect and dignity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Educating patients about what care can reasonably provide to help set appropriate expectations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reframing patient participation so that patients are not just surveyed after the fact, but listened to and given agency throughout the care process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>None of this is separate from clinical quality. On the contrary, it is what allows clinical care to work best and for all. When patients feel that they matter \u2013 that they are respected and informed \u2013 they are more likely to collaborate, follow through and return for more care if they need it. That would benefit patients, their practitioners, healthcare systems and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article is republished from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/patients-who-feel-heard-are-more-likely-to-stick-with-medical-treatment-260750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Conversation<\/a>\u00a0under a Creative Commons license. Read the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/patients-who-feel-heard-are-more-likely-to-stick-with-medical-treatment-260750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original article<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2000s, when I worked as a psychologist in long-term elderly care and primary healthcare services, many of the patients I saw were living with chronic or complex conditions. These situations required that patients trust care providers, consistently adhere to treatments and, often, receive care over an extended period of time. 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