Table 3 Basic statistics of emotional disclosures, interview skills and covariates
Medical interview skill | Mean | SD | Quartiles | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 (%) | 25 (%) | 50 (%) | 75 (%) | 100 (%) | ||||
Demographic | ||||||||
Sex of patients | Male: 74; female: 85 | |||||||
Sex matching | Matched: 83; not matched 76 | |||||||
Interview skills | ||||||||
Open-ended questions | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Close-ended questions | 43.7 | 20.5 | 0 | 29 | 44 | 55 | 124 | |
Focused questions | 7.7 | 6.2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 51 | |
Survey questions | 0.5 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | |
Request for feelings | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
Meaning of the illness | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
Preference | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
Summarization | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
Reflection | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 23 | |
Legitimization | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
Personal support | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
Partnership | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Respect for patients | 2.2 | 2.1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13 | |
Emotional disclosures | ||||||||
Anxiety | 3.4 | 4.6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 41 | |
Depression | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | |
Confounder | ||||||||
Mean duration of interview (sec) | 1356.5 | 730.1 | 133 | 834 | 1205 | 1753 | 4062 | |