Which medical interview skills are associated with patients’ verbal indications of undisclosed feelings of anxiety and depressive feelings?

Table 5 Estimated model of physician’s interview style on number of disclosure about depression by patients

Item	Crude^b				Modified^a
Item	Estimate	SE	z value	p	Estimate	SE	z value	p
Intercept^c	−2.478	0.440	−5.630	<0.001	−4.596	0.992	−4.634	<0.001
Open-ended questions	−0.458	0.231	−1.984	0.047	−0.379	0.258	−1.469	0.142
Close-ended questions	0.014	0.008	1.793	0.073	−0.008	0.009	−0.924	0.355
Focused questions	0.029	0.012	2.379	0.017	0.004	0.013	0.325	0.745
Survey questions	−0.089	0.049	−1.825	0.068	−0.115	0.052	−2.192	0.028
Requests for feelings	0.622	0.156	3.978	<0.001	0.049	0.158	0.313	0.754
Meaning of the illness	0.129	0.174	0.742	0.458	−0.065	0.194	−0.334	0.738
Preference about examination	−0.559	0.242	−2.308	0.021	−0.085	0.230	−0.367	0.713
Summarization	−0.008	0.264	−0.031	0.975	−0.179	0.297	−0.605	0.545
Reflection	−0.010	0.030	−0.338	0.736	0.009	0.035	0.267	0.789
Legitimization	0.350	0.142	2.462	0.014	0.007	0.173	0.039	0.969
Personal support	0.068	0.150	0.454	0.650	−0.218	0.164	−1.331	0.183
Partnership	−15.362	828.283	−0.019	0.985	−15.020	982.600	−0.015	0.988
Respect for patients	0.344	0.053	6.523	<0.001	0.215	0.065	3.293	0.001

Model was estimated using generalized linear model. Dependent variable was number of disclosure about depression
SE standard error
^aPatient’s sex, physician’s title, sex matching between the patient and the physician, and duration of interview were modified as covariates. AIC was 286.96
^bAkaike information criteria (AIC) was 322.39. AIC is an index of goodness of fit for the estimated model by generalized linear model
^cIntercept is the value of dependent variable when all the independent variables were zero

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