Breaking bad news emotionally affects both health professionals and patients. Breaking bad news is a sensitive issue for both health care providers and patients. It is generally believed that the patient’s adjustment can be affected by either a positive or a negative experience in this respect. This study aims to determine health care providers’ attitudes toward breaking bad news to parents in ...

Background and Objective: The physician- patient relationship requires special communication skills. This relationship, especially when announcing bad news, will cause irreparable discomfort in the patient and his families. Therefore, there is a need for studies in the field of training for physicians so they can make appropriate decisions in these cases.   Materials and Methods All e...

Breaking bad news is one of the most difficult tasks an emergency physician has to perform and unfortunately it is not well studied. Almost all of the original studies for compilation of the guidelines of breaking bad news have been conducted in a non-emergent situation and were physician-oriented. In this study and by reviewing related articles in medical databases, the authors try to show the...

Background and objective: Breaking bad news is a very stressful task for both health professionals and patients. Teaching how to break bad news appropriately is one of the important concerns in medical education. So, this study aimed to compare role play and multimedia methods based on SPIKES strategy on midwifery students’ knowledge and attitude in breaking bad news to patients. Mater...

introduction: Bad news can cause a strong emotional and steressful response, unpleasant feeling or behavior, it can change their attitude towards themselves or their futures. Given the importance of how to tell bad news to a patient or his/her family and its consequent effect, this study aims to present a solution and a model for this issue based on Islamic- Iranian culture by reviewing previou...