Table 3 Patients’ and clinicians’ utterance frequencies (n = 22 consultations)
Construct | Sample | Estimate of comparison (95%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Code | Sub-domain | Huntington’s diseasea | Prostate cancera | Total | Mean per session | |
Patient emotional distress utterances | Cue A | 11 (85%) | 2 (15%) | 13 | 0.59 | .33 (.14, 1.50) |
Cue B | 14 (64%) | 8 (36%) | 22 | 1.00 | .45 (−.42, 1.51) | |
Cue C | 6 (43%) | 8 (57%) | 14 | 0.64 | .41 (−1.05, .68) | |
Cue D | 5 (100%) | 0 (100%) | 5 | 0.23 | .16 (.10, .81) | |
Cue E | 0 (N/A) | 0 (N/A) | 0 | 0.00 | N/A | |
Cue F | 1 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 1 | 0.05 | .09 (−.11, .29) | |
Cue G | 15 (79%) | 4 (21%) | 19 | 0.86 | .50 (−.07, 2.07) | |
Cue total | 52 (70%) | 22 (30%) | 74 | 3.36 | .86 (.88, 4.57) | |
Concern | 19 (79%) | 5 (21%) | 24 | 1.09 | .55 (.11, 2.44) | |
Patient-elicited | 46 (69%) | 21 (31%) | 67 | 3.05 | 1.01 (.10, 4.44) | |
Clinician-elicited | 25 (81%) | 6 (19%) | 31 | 1.41 | .48 (.71, 2.74) | |
Cues/concerns total | 71 (72%) | 27 (28%) | 98 | 4.45 | 1.08 (1.74, 6.26) | |
Clinician emotional distress response utterances | Non-explicit | 31 (76%) | 10 (24%) | 41 | 1.86 | .65 (.51, 3.31) |
Explicit | 40 (70%) | 17 (30%) | 57 | 2.59 | .86 (.30, 3.88) | |
Space-providing | 54 (73%) | 20 (27%) | 74 | 3.36 | .92 (1.18, 5.00) | |
Space-reducing | 17 (71%) | 7 (29%) | 24 | 1.09 | .48 (−.09, 1.91) | |
Responses total | 71 (72%) | 27 (28%) | 98 | 4.45 | 1.08 (1.74, 6.26) | |
Clinician spontaneous reassurance utterances | Affective reassurance | 11 (35%) | 20 (65%) | 31 | 1.5 | .48 (−1.83, .19) |
Cognitive reassurance | 32 (39%) | 51 (61%) | 83 | 3.77 | .71 (−3.22, −.23) | |
Reassurance total | 43 (38%) | 71 (62%) | 114 | 5.18 | .82 (−4.25, −.84) | |