The term healthcare practitioner is applied broadly to medical professionals that provide direct services to patients, primarily, physician assistants, medical doctors, surgeons, and nurses.
The issue of evaluating subjective pain symptoms also involves healthcare practitioners as patients. Practically, these issues rise from either a concern of selfish motive to fake symptoms or a concern of altruistic motive to continue to work. Some studies suggest that the effectiveness at deception can be enhanced by a person's extent of pertinent knowledge. A healthcare practitioner then might be more masterful at the misrepresentation of his or her pain.
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How do people assess pain symptoms reported by others with different intentions? Would people generally trust a healthcare professional more or less than a lay person in terms of reported pain symptoms? The layman can bias his assessment if so motivated, without insight of the metrics used. However, several related questions are rarely addressed. A meta-analysis reviewing six studies using standardized patients (actors) and real patients found that even when doctors were aware of the chance for deception, it was correctly detected only ten present of the time. The problem has become increasingly apparent as prescription pain killer abuse continues to mount. This dilemmais only compounded by and therefore is usually separated from, the fact that pain assessments can be easily manipulated by the patient. Evaluation of pain symptoms, as well as the proposed methods for its improvement, has long been debated. Keywords: Theory of mind Deception Pain evaluation This result suggests that theory of mind operates on detecting specific intention of the target person more than the cognitive capacity or morality of the person The results showed a significant effect of intention of the pain patient, where an intent to exaggerate was judged to be more difficult to fake than understating the pain symptoms. exaggeration) and the moral basis of the intention (selfish vs.
In this preliminary study, we examined the theory of mind of ordinary people in evaluating pain symptoms presented in hypothetical scenarios that varied in the level of knowledge of the patient about pain symptoms (health care professional vs., lay person), Intentional Bias (understatement vs. This may be particularly problematic if the patient is knowledgeable about the assessed symptomology. The primary pain evaluation methods based on subjective measurements are vulnerable to manipulation and deception. Accurate evaluation of pain based on subjective information of the patients has always been a challenge for medical professionals.
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