Multilevel explanations
"Healthy adherer" effect
Psychosocial communication
Guidance-cooperation model
Compliance or adherence
Narrowly biomedical communication
Medical jargon
Creative non-adherence
Consumerist communication
Active-passive model
Expanded biomedical communications
Biopsychosocial communication
Non-adherence
Non-discrepant responses
Mutual-participation model
The degree to which patients carry out the behaviours and treatments that physicians and other health professionals recommend
Explanations that use medical jargon followed by further explanation using everyday language
Technical language used by a physician that is sometimes unintelligible to the patient
The use of the physician as a consultant who answers questions rather than by asking them
Failure to follow the advice of a health professional
Characterized mainly by biomedical talk, closed-ended medical questions, and very little discussion of psychosocial issues
Situation in which patients are unable to participate in their care or to make decisions because of their medical condition
Communication in which the patient seeks advice from their physician and answers the questions that are asked, but the physician is responsible for determining the diagnosis and treatment
Physician responds to the patient's questions using the same sophistication of vocabulary that the patient uses
Greater adherence to health-promoting behaviours, such as medication adherence, is indicative of overall healthy behaviour
Health care model in which the physician and patient make joint decisions about every aspect of care
Suggests that biological, psychological, and social factors are all involved in any given state of health or illness
Includes numerous closed-ended medical questions and moderate levels of biomedical and psychosocial exchange between physician and patient
Includes substantial psychosocial exchange between physician and patient
A patient's intentional modifying or supplementing of a recommended treatment regimen
