Compassionate Curiosity: Mitigating the Effects of BiasThrough Motivational Interviewing

Authors

Paul J. Hershberger, Wright State UniversityFollow
Dean A. Bricker, Wright State UniversityFollow
Angie Castle, Wright State UniversityFollow
Timothy N. Crawford, Wright State University - Main CampusFollow
Stacy R. Flowers, Wright State UniversityFollow
Alexandria L. Goff, Wright State University
Katharine Conway, Wright State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-13-2024

Identifier/URL

41050420 (Pure); 39011081 (PubMed); PMC11249126 (PubMedCentral)

Abstract

There is strong evidence that the implicit biases of health care professionals affect the treatment of patients, and that minority and other marginalized patients are disproportionately harmed. Assumptions made about patient knowledge or lack thereof function as judgments that are prone to bias, which then affect the education and advice imposed upon patients. We review how the motivational interviewing (MI) approach to patient engagement includes components of evidence-based bias-mitigating strategies, such as understanding circumstances from the patient’s point of view, and therefore we propose that the MI approach can reduce the impact of bias in patient care.

Comments

Publisher Copyright: © Paul J. Hershberger et al., 2024; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Repository Citation

Hershberger, P. J., Bricker, D. A., Castle, A., Crawford, T. N., Flowers, S. R., Goff, A. L., & Conway, K. (2024). Compassionate Curiosity: Mitigating the Effects of BiasThrough Motivational Interviewing. Health Equity, 8 (1), 351-354.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/familymed/240

DOI

10.1089/heq.2024.0054