McNaughton-Filion L, Chen J S, Norton P G
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Sunnybrook Medical Centre, North York, Ontario, Canada.
Fam Med. 1991 Mar-Apr;23(3):208-11.
Little is known about the physician's appearance and its effect on patients' confidence and trust. This study reports on the attitudes of family physicians and their patients toward physicians' dress, sex, and age. The data suggest that while age and style of dress are important considerations in a patient's ability to trust a physician, sex of the physician is much less important. The majority of patients stated a preference for their doctors to be between 30 and 50 years old. It appears patients strongly prefer a male physician to dress in the traditional "professional" manner with a white coat, tie, shirt, and dress pants. The desirable "uniform" for the female physician was less clear, with variables of patient age, sex, education, and geographic location causing significant differences in patients' preferences regarding dress for female physicians.
关于医生的外表及其对患者信心和信任的影响，人们知之甚少。本研究报告了家庭医生及其患者对医生着装、性别和年龄的态度。数据表明，虽然年龄和着装风格是患者信任医生能力的重要考虑因素，但医生的性别则没那么重要。大多数患者表示希望他们的医生年龄在30至50岁之间。似乎患者强烈倾向于男性医生以传统的“专业”方式着装，即穿白大褂、打领带、穿衬衫和西裤。女性医生理想的“制服”则不太明确，患者的年龄、性别、教育程度和地理位置等变量导致患者对女性医生着装偏好存在显著差异。
