Department of International Medical Services, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Biomed Res Int. 2023 Jan 9;2023:2992888. doi: 10.1155/2023/2992888. eCollection 2023.
To investigate patients' preference and the attitude towards physician attire in an internal medicine clinic in China.
This study was conducted from 1 January 2021 to 30 June 2021 in a tertiary care hospital in China. We surveyed 126 patients in the hospital with 6 sets of pictures of commonly worn physician attires in the hospital setting with a two-part questionnaire. The first part listed respondent demographics to collect basic information. The second part of the questionnaire was administered to adult patients who received care in the internal medicine clinics (outpatients). Survey forms collected demographic data (age, gender, patient age, education, marital status, and employment status), asked questions regarding 6 specific attires (scrubs, scrubs and white coat, casual, casual and white coat, business suit, and formal and white coat), and behavioral items (professional, responsible, reliable, knowledgeable, succession rate, and medical safety), finally, to assess the preference of attire on overall perception.
Scrubs and white coat scored the highest through 6 domains about physicians' attire (professional, reliable, responsible, knowledgeable, medical safety, and succession rate, < 0.05 for all comparisons). A casual suit without a white coat was the least preferred across the surveyed attributes. There was a significant preference gap between wearing a white coat and not wearing a white coat ( < 0.001). Physician attire to white coat was considered as more professional, reliable, responsible, knowledgeable, having greater medical safety, and a higher success rate than attires without white coat.
Patients felt that the physician wearing a white coat was better than other attires. Scrubs and white coat was the most popular attire. Hospital or related authorities may promote the standardized wearing of white coats, leading in a greater patient-physician relationship.
调查中国某内科诊所患者对医生着装的偏好和态度。
本研究于 2021 年 1 月 1 日至 6 月 30 日在中国一家三级保健医院进行。我们在医院调查了 126 名患者，使用医院环境中常见的 6 套医生着装图片，通过两部分问卷进行调查。第一部分列出了受访者的人口统计学信息，以收集基本信息。第二部分问卷针对在内科诊所（门诊）接受过治疗的成年患者进行。调查问卷收集了人口统计学数据（年龄、性别、患者年龄、教育程度、婚姻状况和就业状况），询问了 6 种特定着装（工作服和白大褂、便装和白大褂、休闲装、休闲装和白大褂、西装和白大褂、正式装和白大褂）的问题，并评估了着装对整体感知的偏好。
工作服和白大褂在医生着装的 6 个方面得分最高（专业、可靠、负责、知识渊博、医疗安全和成功率，所有比较均 < 0.05）。不穿白大褂的休闲套装是所有调查属性中最不受欢迎的。穿白大褂和不穿白大褂之间存在显著的偏好差距（< 0.001）。与不穿白大褂相比，医生穿白大褂被认为更专业、更可靠、更负责、更有知识、更能保证医疗安全、成功率更高。
患者认为医生穿白大褂比其他着装更好。工作服和白大褂是最受欢迎的着装。医院或相关部门可能会提倡标准化穿白大褂，从而改善医患关系。
