Cross-Cultural Patient Counseling and Communication in the Integrative Medicine Setting: Respecting the Patient's Health Belief Model of Care

Eran Ben-Arye; Gabriel Lopez; Maryam Rassouli; Miriam Ortiz; Holger Cramer; Noah Samuels

doi:10.1007/s11920-024-01515-2

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Cross-Cultural Patient Counseling and Communication in the Integrative Medicine Setting: Respecting the Patient's Health Belief Model of Care

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Cross-Cultural Patient Counseling and Communication in the Integrative Medicine Setting: Respecting the Patient's Health Belief Model of Care

Eran Ben-Arye, Gabriel Lopez, Maryam Rassouli, Miriam Ortiz, Holger Cramer and Noah Samuels

Current psychiatry reports, Vol.26(8), pp.422-434

01/08/2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-024-01515-2

PMID: 38884698

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Cross-cultural medicine

Mental health

Integrative medicine

Integrative oncology

Psycho-oncology

Doctor-patient communication

Health-belief model

Purpose of Review Communicating effectively with patients having a traditional, alternative or complementary medicine-related health-belief model is challenging in today’s cross-cultural society. This narrative review explores the integrative medicine setting of care, focusing on insights from the integrative oncology daily practice, while addressing the relevance to the mental health setting. The way in which healthcare providers can enhance cultural-sensitive communication with patients and informal caregivers; recognize and respect health-beliefs to bridge cultural gaps; and generate an open, non-judgmental and mindful dialogue are discussed. Recent Findings Identifying cross-cultural barriers to healthcare provider-patient communication is important in order to address the potential for conflict between conventional and “alternative” health beliefs; difficulties in creating a shared-decision making process; disagreement on therapeutic goals and treatment plan; and finally, the potential for non-compliance or non-adherence to the conventional oncology treatment. Summary Acquiring intercultural competencies is needed at all stages of medical education, and should be implemented in medical and nursing curricula, as well as during specialization and sub-specialization. As with patient-centered paradigms of care, integrative medicine entails a dual patient-centered and sensitive-cultural approach, based on a comprehensive bio-psycho-social-spiritual model of care.

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Title: Cross-Cultural Patient Counseling and Communication in the Integrative Medicine Setting: Respecting the Patient's Health Belief Model of Care
Creators: Eran Ben-Arye - Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel)
Gabriel Lopez - University of Texas (Houston, Texas)
Maryam Rassouli - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Miriam Ortiz - Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Holger Cramer - University Hospital Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)
Noah Samuels - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Publication Details: Current psychiatry reports, Vol.26(8), pp.422-434
Publisher: Springer Healthcare
Number of pages: 1
Identifiers: 991013200709602368
Academic Unit: National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Cross-Cultural Patient Counseling and Communication in the Integrative Medicine Setting: Respecting the Patient's Health Belief Model of Care

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