Age-Related Differences in Doctor-Patient Interaction and Patient Satisfaction

Table 1

Amount of talk in communication categories by style of doctor-patient interaction.

	Physician dominated (𝑛=80)	Patient centered (𝑛=97)	Overall (𝑛=177)
Ratio to all talk
Patient biomedical information giving	0.25	0.18	0.22**
Patient psychosocial talk	0.12	0.16	0.14**
Patient question asking	0.01	0.02	0.01
Physician biomedical information giving	0.21	0.15	0.18**
Physician psychosocial talk	0.18	0.23	0.21**
Physician question asking	0.09	0.07	0.08*
Communication dominance
Physician verbal dominance	1.55	1.24	1.30^†
Physician communication control	1.79	1.54	1.65*

^†P <  .10, *P <  .05, **P <  .01, ***P <  .001.