An analytic hierarchy process analysis for reinforcing doctor-patient communication

• Published in: BMC family practice Vol. 24; no. 1; p. 24
• Main Authors: Park, Sewon, Kim, Han-Kyoul, Lee, Munjae
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 21.01.2023; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: AHP analysis; Analytic Hierarchy Process; Communication; Doctor-Patient relationship; Evaluation; Health Communication; Humans; Listening; Medical care; Patient satisfaction; Patient-doctor communication; Physician and patient; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians; Quality management; Quality of medical service; Quality of service; Reproducibility of Results; Surveys and Questionnaires; South Korea; Quality of medical service; Doctor-Patient relationship; Patient-doctor communication; AHP analysis; Health communication
• ISSN: 2731-4553; 2731-4553; 1471-2296
• DOI: 10.1186/s12875-023-01972-3

As the health paradigm shifts toward patient-centeredness, patients can actively participate in their own treatment. However, there is still a unilateral aspect of doctor-patient communication, so it is necessary to specify obstacles between doctors and patients. Therefore, this study attempted to extract obstacles that block doctor-patient communication and to analyze differences in perception of doctor-patient communication. A total of 35 questionnaires composed of brainstorming for the study were distributed, and a total of 21 questionnaires were used for analysis. The collected data was analyzed by AHP using dress ver 17.0. As a result of the study, doctors ranked the priority of health communication in the order of professionalism, reliability, fairness, communication, and psychologically. On the other hand, for patients, the priority factors of health communication were communication, fairness, professionalism, reliability, and psychologically. In order to improve the quality of health communication between doctors and patients, doctors will be able to communicate from the patient's point of view and strengthen communication with patients by providing consistent medical services and patients need to trust the doctor and patients need to trust their doctors and participate in the medical process faithfully.