Relationship study on doctor-patient communication performance, communicative skills, willingness and environmental perception of medical students

Objective: Analyze the relationship among medical students’ communication skills, communication willingness, environmental perception and the performance of doctor-patient communication. Methods: Based on the qualitative interview and theoretical research framework proposition, the study adopted regression analysis to analyze the reciprocate relationship among different variables and verified related propositions. Results: The score of medical students’ doctor-patient communicative skills is 3.49±0.41. That of communicative tendency is 3.62±0.72. That of environmental perception is 3.46±0.68. And that of communicative performance is 3.60±0.66. In conclusion, single-child medical students in urban areas perform better in communication between doctors and patients. The regression coefficient of communicative skills to performance and tendency is 0.763 and 0.660 respectively. The regression coefficient of communicative tendency to performance is 0.562. The regression coefficient of interaction item between environment perception and communicative skills to communicative tendency and performance is 0.430 and 0.619 respectively. Conclusions: Communicative skill has a positive effect on communicative performance of doctor-patient relationship. Communicative tendency plays a role of intermediary agent between communicative skill and performance. Environmental perception has an up-regulated effect on the relation between skills and tendency, and that of communicative skills and perfor-