Examining the relationship between healthcare practitioner's communication and patient adherence to treatment: A protocol for systematic review
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Objective: This study aims to explore the relationship between patient-practitioner communication and subsequent patient adherence to healthcare intervention.Data sources: Ovid MEDLINE, CINAHL, APA PsycInfo, CENTRAL and Scopus will be searched from 2014 to January 2025. Manual searching of reference lists of eligible articles will be also completed.Study selection: Studies published in any language that quantified the effects of patient-practitioner communication on patient adherence to healthcare intervention. Data extraction and analysis: Screening, data extraction and risk of bias assessment will be conducted by two independent reviewers. Disagreements will be resolved through consensus. Risk of bias will be assessed using the Joanna-Briggs Institute (JBI) checklists for non-randomised studies, and the Cochrane Risk of Bias v2 (RoB2) for randomised controlled trials. If appropriate, results will be pooled with summary estimates and confidence intervals; otherwise, we will conduct a narrative synthesis. We will organise our findings by healthcare discipline, modalities of communication (e.g., face-to-face, video and phone calls), and the study location.PROSPERO registration number: CRD42025616150
