Journal
WOMEN & HEALTH
Volume 57, Issue 6, Pages 631-649Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03630242.2016.1202881
Keywords
Health care use; health disparities; physician-patient concordance; primary care; trust
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The authors examined the association between physician-patient concordance and patient trust for low socio-economic status women who were enrolled in Medicaid case management. The data were collected from October 2006 through March 2007 from a stratified random sample of 2,815 adult beneficiaries enrolled in North Carolina Medicaid's primary care case management delivery system. We limited our analyses to women enrolled in primary care, hence controlling for gender and social class as well as access to care. We were also able to control for the availability of minority providers. The findings revealed that the enrollee's race, education, and experiences seeking help with their health providers were significantly related to patient's trust of their physicians. Neither race concordance nor gender concordance improved trust. This may be because relatively few minority providers were included in the sample. These results extend research on physician-patient concordance by examining the relationship of both racial and gender concordance with patient trust while controlling for access and social class. Research on physician-patient concordance needs to account for multiple measures of social status, as well as differences in culture and communication styles between physicians and their patients.
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