The purpose of this article was to discuss the validity of an instrument for measuring patients’ trust in medical technology. This article went along with the previous article I blogged about. All of Dr. Montague’s publications that I found were about patient trust. This article once again defines trust. This time however, she breaks it down into categories. She uses the following references to define patient trust in physicians; Thom et al. (2002) define patient trust in physician as a set of beliefs or expectations that a care provider will perform in a certain way, while Pearson and Raeke (2000) define trust as an emotional characteristic, where patients have a comforting feeling of faith or dependence in a care provider’s intentions. She also mentions that Pearson and Raeke (2000) define competence, compassion, privacy, confidentiality, reliability, dependability, and communication as the most common factors of patient trust in physicians.
I found these factors to be very interesting. If you sit back and think about if you had you rate your physician what factors would you use to determine if they are a “good” doctor or not? I pretty sure many of the factors listed above would align with Dr. Montague and Pearson and Raeke’s (2000) findings.
The other category she talked about what patient trust in medical technology which is already mentioned in my last post.
I think that being able to trust your doctor is very crucial. I know that finding a doctor is like finding the right Church. You have to feel comfortable with everyone there to actually want to stay, not only do you have to feel comfortable with your doctor, but you have to be comfortable with the nurses, and technicians because at one point or another, you'll be in contact with them all. People also like to know their credentials and their background too.
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