ArticlePatient education and counseling2025
"The doctor will see you now… but not for long": Linking physicians' racial attitudes and patients' discrimination experiences to racial disparities in the duration of medical consultations.
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- Enduring hope and loss: qualitative evidence synthesis of LGBTQ+ experiences of perinatal loss.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- The Intergroup Time Bias and Its Implications for Medical Healthcare.The Journal of social issues · 2025Article
- The Influence of Patient and Physician Race-Related Attitudes and Perceptions on Nonverbal Synchrony in Oncology Treatment Interactions Between Black Patients and Non-Black Physicians.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer CenterArticle
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objectiveTo investigate the relationship between non-Black physicians' racial attitudes, Black patients' discrimination experiences, and consultation duration in diverse clinical settings.
methodsSecondary analyses were conducted on data from three prior studies involving non-Black primary care physicians (Study 1: n = 14, Study 2: n = 5) and their Black patients (Study 1: n = 118, Study 2: n = 31), as well as 15 non-Black oncologists and their 72 Black patients (Study 3). Data included physician and patient surveys, along with video-recorded consultations.
resultsStudy 1 revealed that, relative to other physicians, physicians whose racial attitudes fit an aversive racist profile (i.e., low explicit racial bias, high implicit bias) had longer consultations with Black patients who reported more (vs. fewer) discrimination experiences. Study 2 and 3 found that physicians' implicit racial bias is negatively associated with consultation duration. Finally, a meta-analysis supported the effects of aversive racism and patients' discrimination experiences on consultation duration. DISCUSSION: These findings demonstrate how physicians' racial attitudes and patients' discrimination experiences can affect medical consultation duration-an important aspect of patient-provider communication quality. PRACTICAL VALUE: These results provide initial evidence for the importance of helping physicians manage the negative consequences of their implicit bias within the current structural constraints of limited medical consultation time and empowering Black patients to advocate for their healthcare needs.
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