The patient-practitioner communication in an osteopathic consultation.
Item
- Title
- The patient-practitioner communication in an osteopathic consultation.
- Author(s)
- Pavlidi, Daniela
- Abstract
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BackgroundThe patient-practitioner communication is of exceptional value, as it is the base of creating a trusting and therapeutic environment for the two. Besides the verbal component of their interaction, a very important one is the non-verbal portion, which adds action and emotion, creating another dimension in the conversation. AimTo identify the non-verbal signals in a simulation of an osteopathic consultation, and evaluate them, strengthening the evidence regarding the non-verbal communication. MethodsAn osteopathic consultation was simulated and was video-recorded by three cameras. Then the videos were analysed, measuring frequencies, durations and sometimes context of some selected non-verbal cues. ResultsA presence of 481 non-verbal cues were expressed in the thirty-three minutes interview and 860 changes in gaze direction were observed and analysed in categories. DiscussionThe gaze, smile, facial/body self touch, nodding/Head shaking, gestures 2 body motions and pause/latency before talking were discussed in this section. All the cues, could explain the different emotional states the patient (and practitioner) is into, promoting a greater understanding in the patient-practitioner relationship.
ConclusionThe findings of this study highlight how the expression of information from the side of the patient occurs. It would be interesting to see how the analysis of both patient and practitioner's body language would be in a health-care setting.
- presented at
- British College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Date Accepted
- 2015
- Date Submitted
- 13.11.2018 11:22:53
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Number of pages
- 39
- Submitted by:
- 4457
- Pub-Identifier
- 16291
- Inst-Identifier
- 1076
- Keywords
- Nov-verbal, Body language, Smile, Gazing, Gestures Search Engines; PubMed, Google Scholar, PsycNET
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Pavlidi, Daniela, “The patient-practitioner communication in an osteopathic consultation.”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 4, 2024, https://www.osteopathicresearch.com/s/orw/item/2055