INFLUENCE OF GENDER ON OUTCOMES OF MEDICATION-HISTORY INTERVIEWING

This study investigated the influence of patient and provider gender o n the outcomes of medication-history interviewing. In a previous study , 112 pharmacy students conducted medication-history interviews with 2 simulated patients. A secondary analysis was accomplished using compl ete data from 85 of the original 112 pharmacy students. The other 27 s tudents were eliminated because of missing data. Factor analysis and c anonical correlation were used to assess associations between the prio r study's set of predictor variables and measures of interview complet eness and patient satisfaction with the interview. Female and male pha rmacy students appear to use different expressive, interactive, and in terrogative skills. Allergy-asking was more complete when female pharm acy students interviewed a male patient. Emotive patient satisfaction was found to be associated more positively with a female student and f emale patient while teleological patient satisfaction between a male s tudent and male patient was nearly double the result of the female-fem ale dyad. Medication-history interview outcomes appear to differ as a consequence of the use of different sets of skills during same-sex or opposite-sex interviews.