Perception

Patients’ perception of their illness and coping styles may play a role in whether hand osteoarthritis pain improves or deteriorates over the long term, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

NEW YORK — In this Healio Video Perspective from the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, David Frederick, MD, discusses a workshop that aims to empower physicians to provide bias-free psychiatry teaching services.

Patients’ perception of kidney transplantation may be influenced by past experience and background with chronic kidney disease, according to a published study.

PHILADELPHIA — Using normothermic regional perfusion to maintain donatable organs after circulatory death may not impact public perceptions of organ donation, data show.

Compared with Baby Boomers, Millennial and Gen X oncologists are far more likely to believe that moderate to high levels of racial disparities exist in cancer, study results revealed.

Female adolescent and young adult cancer survivors reported higher rates of perceived infertility risk and frequently overestimated or underestimated their risk, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

More than 10,000 discussions on the large social media platform Reddit showed mostly neutral feelings toward statins, with a smaller yet significant proportion showing negative sentiment, an artificial intelligence analysis showed.

Nearly 75% of patients with visual acuity of 20/200 or worse were never referred for low vision services, an outcome possibly driven by perception of rehabilitative care, according to data published in Optometry and Vision Science.

In a recent survey, patients said they viewed physicians in casual attire such as a fleece jacket in place of a white coat as less professional and less experienced.