Table 2 Means (standard deviation), percentage of participants agreeing or totally agreeing, and MANOVA results
LATCon Items | Patients | Psychiatrists | Psychiatry Registrars | Pvalues | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. The consultation between the psychiatrist and patient should be viewed as a negotiation between equals | 1.7 (1.0) | 61 % | 1.5 (0.8) | 51 % | 1.7 (0.7) | 67 % | P = .16 |
2. Psychiatrists should respect their patients’ personal beliefs and how they cope | 2.3 (0.7) | 91 % | 2.7 (0.5) | 99 % | 2.7 (0.5) | 99 % | P < .001; Pat < Psy, Reg |
3. The best use of medicine is when it is what the patient wants and is able to achieve | 1.9 (0.8) | 78 % | 2.4 (0.6) | 96 % | 2.3 (0.6) | 92 % | P < .001; Pat < Psy, Reg |
4. Just as prescribing is an experiment performed by the psychiatrist, so too is medication taking an experiment performed by the patient | 1.4 (1.0) | 48 % | 1.3 (0.9) | 46 % | 1.4 (0.9) | 43 % | P = .65 |
5. Psychiatrists should give patients the opportunity to talk about their thoughts about their illness and negotiate how it is treated | 2.1 (0.9) | 78 % | 2.5 (0.6) | 96 % | 2.4 (0.6) | 95 % | P < .001; Pat < Psy, Reg |
6. Better health would follow from cooperation between psychiatrists and patients | 2.5 (0.7) | 95 % | 2.9 (0.3) | 100 % | 2.8 (0.4) | 100 % | P < .001; Pat < Psy, Reg |
7. A high priority in the consultation between psychiatrist and patients is to establish agreement about the need for medicine | 2.1 (0.9) | 83 % | 2.6 (0.5) | 99 % | 2.5 (0.6) | 95 % | P < .001; Pat < Psy, Reg |
8. Psychiatrists should be sensitive to patient desires, needs and abilities | 2.2 (0.8) | 88 % | 2.7 (0.5) | 99 % | 2.5 (0.5) | 99 % | P < .001; Pat < Psy, Reg |
9. Psychiatrists should try to help patients to make as informed a choice as possible about the benefits and risks of alternative treatments | 2.4 (0.7) | 92 % | 2.6 (0.5) | 98 % | 2.6 (0.5) | 99 % | P < .001; Pat < Psy, Reg |
10. During the psychiatrist-patient consultation, it is the patient’s decision that is most important | 1.1 (0.9) | 25 % | 1.7 (0.8) | 54 % | 1.4 (0.7) | 35 % | P < .001; Pat < Reg < Psy |
11. Psychiatrists should be more sensitive to how patients react to the information they give | 2.0 (0.8) | 80 % | 2.5 (0.5) | 100 % | 2.3 (0.5) | 97 % | P < .001; Pat < Psy, Reg |
12. Psychiatrists should try to learn about the beliefs their patients hold about their medicines | 1.8 (0.9) | 71 % | 2.4 (0.6) | 95 % | 2.4 (0.6) | 97 % | P < .001; Pat < Psy, Reg |