Patient-provider communication in patients with diabetes and depressive symptoms

Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2012 Jan;95(1):e10-3. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2011.09.024. Epub 2011 Oct 11.

Abstract

The association between depressive symptoms and patient-provider communication was examined in adult primary care patients with diabetes. Most communication was not patient-centered, but did not differ by level of patient's depressive symptoms.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Depression / psychology*
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / psychology*
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / psychology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Physician-Patient Relations*