Patient education and counseling · 2019
A conceptual framework for understanding iatrophobia.
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Hollander Mara A G, Greene Michele G
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OBJECTIVE: Iatrophobia - fear of doctors, medical care, or the medical care system - is common among patients and can negatively impact their health-seeking behaviors and relationships with health care professionals. Despite this, academic literature on iatrophobia often fails to explore its nuanced causes.
METHODS: We establish a conceptual framework of iatrophobia, categorizing sources of fear that may create barriers to accessing medical care, and recommend a research agenda to address this phenomenon and understand its role in medical care.
RESULTS: The framework includes three categories of determinants of iatrophobia: patient fear of illness and the medical exam, patient fear of physician reaction, and patient fear related to barriers to care. These categories represent influences from individual to more system-related factors associated with the physician-patient relationship. Research examining iatrophobia should focus on understanding its prevalence, how patients cope with their fear, discussing iatrophobia in the physician-patient encounter, the sociopolitical contribution to iatrophobia, and how iatrophobia can be reduced.
CONCLUSIONS: Iatrophobia can be categorized into three primary domains, but it remains poorly understood.
PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: A more thorough understanding of iatrophobia will help to contextualize its role amid other barriers to care and patient health outcomes.
METHODS: We establish a conceptual framework of iatrophobia, categorizing sources of fear that may create barriers to accessing medical care, and recommend a research agenda to address this phenomenon and understand its role in medical care.
RESULTS: The framework includes three categories of determinants of iatrophobia: patient fear of illness and the medical exam, patient fear of physician reaction, and patient fear related to barriers to care. These categories represent influences from individual to more system-related factors associated with the physician-patient relationship. Research examining iatrophobia should focus on understanding its prevalence, how patients cope with their fear, discussing iatrophobia in the physician-patient encounter, the sociopolitical contribution to iatrophobia, and how iatrophobia can be reduced.
CONCLUSIONS: Iatrophobia can be categorized into three primary domains, but it remains poorly understood.
PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: A more thorough understanding of iatrophobia will help to contextualize its role amid other barriers to care and patient health outcomes.