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Communicative styles and adaptations in physician-parent consultations

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This investigation compares the degree to which personal and interactive factors respectively account for variation in patterns of physician-parent communicative exchange. The analysis of audiorecordings of 115 pediatric consultations revealed several notable findings: (a) individual physicians differed in the degree to which each provided information, issued directives, exhibited positive socioemotional behavior, and engaged in partnership-building, (b) parents who asked more questions and expressed more negative affect (e.g. concerns, frustrations) received more information and directives from physicians, (c) parents who were more affectively expressive elicited a greater number of positive socioemotional comments from doctors, and (d) parents' question-asking and opinion-giving were related to the parents' level of education and the degree to which physicians' engaged in partnership-building. The results of this study suggest that, as are other forms of interpersonal communication, medical consultations are processes of personal and mutual influence that unfold according to the characteristics of the individuals and to interactive processes related to how interactants adapt their communication to one another.

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  • Street, Richard L., 1992. "Communicative styles and adaptations in physician-parent consultations," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 34(10), pages 1155-1163, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:34:y:1992:i:10:p:1155-1163
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    1. Kenny, David A. & Veldhuijzen, Wemke & Weijden, Trudy van der & LeBlanc, Annie & Lockyer, Jocelyn & Légaré, France & Campbell, Craig, 2010. "Interpersonal perception in the context of doctor-patient relationships: A dyadic analysis of doctor-patient communication," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 70(5), pages 763-768, March.
    2. Del Piccolo, Lidia & Mazzi, Maria Angela & Dunn, Graham & Sandri, Marco & Zimmermann, Christa, 2007. "Sequence analysis in multilevel models. A study on different sources of patient cues in medical consultations," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 65(11), pages 2357-2370, December.
    3. Street Jr., Richard L. & Gordon, Howard & Haidet, Paul, 2007. "Physicians' communication and perceptions of patients: Is it how they look, how they talk, or is it just the doctor?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 65(3), pages 586-598, August.
    4. Gordon, Howard S. & Street, Richard Jr. & Adam Kelly, P. & Souchek, Julianne & Wray, Nelda P., 2005. "Physician-patient communication following invasive procedures: an analysis of post-angiogram consultations," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 61(5), pages 1015-1025, September.
    5. Richard L. Street JR, 2007. "Aiding Medical Decision Making: A Communication Perspective," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 27(5), pages 550-553, September.

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