The effect of an educational intervention in family phisicians on self-rated quality of life in patients with medically unexplained symptoms

Abstract

Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are very common in family medicine, despite being a poorly-defined clinical entity. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of an educational intervention (EI) on self-rated quality of life, treatment satisfaction, and the family physician-patient relationship in patients with MUS.

Keywords

• medically unexplained symptoms
• family medicine
• educational intervention
• quality of life
• treatment satisfaction
• family physician-patient relationship
• medicinsko nepojasnjena stanja
• družinska medicina
• edukacijska intervencija
• kakovost življenja
• zadovoljstvo bolnikov
• odnos med družinskim zdravnikom in bolnikom