Hoonakker Jean-Denis, Adeline-Duflot Florence, Orcel Véronique, Grudzinski Marie-Louise, Cognet Mathilde, Renard Vincent
Department of General Practice, Faculty of Health, University Paris-Est Créteil, Créteil, France.
Multidisciplinary Health Centre of Pays de Nemours, Nemours, France.
PEC Innov. 2023 Apr 26;2:100159. doi: 10.1016/j.pecinn.2023.100159. eCollection 2023 Dec.
Visual aids (VAs) seem effective to improve doctor-patient communication. The objective was to describe how VAs are used in consultation and what French general practitioners (GPs) expect of them.
Cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire among French GPs in 2019. Descriptive and multinominal logistic regression analyses were performed.
Of the 376 respondents, 70% used VAs at least weekly and 34% daily; 94% considered VAs useful/very useful; 77% felt they did not use VAs enough. Sketches were the most used VAs and considered the most useful. Younger age was significantly associated with a higher rate of use of simple digital images. VAs were mainly used to describe anatomy and facilitate patient comprehension. Main reasons for not using VAs more often were time spent searching, lack of habit and poor quality of available VAs. Many GPs requested a database of good quality VAs.
GPs use VAs regularly in consultations but would like to use them more often. Informing GPs of the usefulness of VAs, training them to draw adapted sketches and creating a good quality databank are some possible strategies to increase the use of VAs.
This study described in detail the use of VAs as tool for doctor-patient communication.
视觉辅助工具（VAs）似乎对改善医患沟通有效。目的是描述视觉辅助工具在会诊中的使用方式以及法国全科医生（GPs）对它们的期望。
2019年对法国全科医生进行的一项使用自填式问卷的横断面研究。进行了描述性和多项逻辑回归分析。
在376名受访者中，70%至少每周使用一次视觉辅助工具，34%每天使用；94%认为视觉辅助工具有用/非常有用；77%觉得他们对视觉辅助工具的使用不够。草图是使用最多的视觉辅助工具，且被认为最有用。年龄较小与使用简单数字图像的比例较高显著相关。视觉辅助工具主要用于描述解剖结构并促进患者理解。不更频繁使用视觉辅助工具主要原因是搜索花费时间、缺乏习惯以及现有视觉辅助工具质量差。许多全科医生要求建立一个高质量视觉辅助工具数据库。
全科医生在会诊中经常使用视觉辅助工具，但希望更频繁地使用。告知全科医生视觉辅助工具的有用性、培训他们绘制合适的草图以及创建高质量的数据库是增加视觉辅助工具使用的一些可能策略。
本研究详细描述了视觉辅助工具作为医患沟通工具的使用情况。
