Physicians’ gender bias in diagnostic assessment of MUS and its effect on patient–physician relations (2019) Clareus & Renstrom

JohnTheJack · May 28, 2019

https://www.researchgate.net/profil...its-effect-on-patient-physician-relations.pdf

Nonspecific, functional, and somatoform (NFS) syndromes is an umbrella term for various diagnoses with medically unexplained symptoms. These syndromes are more prevalent among women than among men, and associated with negative preconceptions that can impede rehabilitation.

In two studies, we quantitatively assess how patients’ gender affects the diagnostic assessment of NFS syndromes, as well as the healthcare experiences of individuals diagnosed with NFS syndromes.

In the first study, our vignette-based experiment showed that Swedish general practitioners (N = 90) were gender biased in their diagnostic assessment of NFS syndromes, such that a female patient with back pain was more likely to be assigned a NFS syndrome compared to an otherwise identical male patient. In the second study, a large community sample of Swedish individuals with medically explained (n = 432) and unexplained pain (n = 521) evaluated their treating physician’s relational conduct.

Even after accounting for a variety of sociodemographic variables and other pain characteristics, women with at least one NFS syndrome percieved their physician’s relational conduct as significantly poorer than other women as well as men with and without NFS syndromes.

When women’s pain is more likely than men's to be assessed as NFS, their rehabilitation could be prolonged as pertient alternative diagnoses and treatments are omitted and their negative healthcare experiences lower their volition to partake and persevere in treatment.
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Arnie Pye · May 28, 2019

This kind of research investigating gender bias in diagnosis and treatment has been done many times before over many years. How many more times does it have to be done to prove what is screamingly obvious to the vast majority of women? Does it ever make any difference at all or is it just something done by doctors and researchers who want their names on another paper?

NelliePledge · May 29, 2019

Stuff like this is a waste of words.

MUS needs to go full stop

Amw66 · Sep 23, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...k-prize-caroline-criado-perez-invisible-women

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