Do practitioners put words into patients mouths?
Item
- Title
- Do practitioners put words into patients mouths?
- Author(s)
- Conba Tom
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study is to determine if practitioners put words into patients' mouths or paraphrase (appendix 1) vocabulary when the patient is describing their pain experience in relation to their symptomatology during the case history examination, and to determine whether the vocabulary that practitioners use to describe pain when dealing with patients influences that used by the patient to describe their pain.15 patients and 15 practitioners partook in the study. The patients were interviewed before the case history interview and asked to describe their experience of pain. The case histories were recorded and the practitioners were interviewed after the case histories to report how the patient described their experience of pain.The results did not support the hypothesis that practitioners guided patients with respect to the language of pain as only 28.32% of the practitioners vocabulary was acknowledged by the patient.However, the study did find that the reporting of the patients' language to describe pain was only 13.47%. This does support the hypothesis that practitioners paraphrase the patients language to describe pain.
- Abstract
- presented at
- British School of Osteopathy
- Date Accepted
- 1999
- Date Submitted
- 11.8.2000 00:00:00
- Type
- undergraduate_project
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 12229
- Inst-Identifier
- 780
- Keywords
- Patients,Patients-Interviewing,Medical Terminology,Pain,Case Histories,Doctor-Patient Relationships
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Conba Tom, “Do practitioners put words into patients mouths?”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed April 29, 2024, https://www.osteopathicresearch.com/s/orw/item/2237