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Yoon2014
BibType ARTICLE
Key Yoon2014
Author(s) Sungwon Yoon, Miranda Chan, Wai Ka Hung, Marcus Ying, Amy Or, Wendy WT Lam
Title Communicative characteristics of interactions between surgeons and Chinese women with breast cancer in oncology consultation: a conversation analysis
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Tag(s) EMCA, Medical, Health communication, Oncology
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Year 2014
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Journal Health Expectations
Volume 18
Number 6
Pages 2825–2840
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DOI 10.1111/hex.12260
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Abstract

Background: While previous studies have analysed features of interaction in cancer consultations using observational coding frames, relatively little attention is being given to how actual interactions are sequentially organized and achieved by participants in the course of talk-in-interaction. Research into the interactional practices in consultations, which involves Chinese patients, is largely absent.

Objective: To provide insight into the talk-in-interaction in surgical-oncology consultations in the context of a Chinese medical setting.

Methods: Thirty-one consultations involving 31 patients with breast cancer and eight surgeons were videotaped. The recordings were transcribed verbatim and analysed using conversation analysis.

Results: The manner in which surgeons delivered the diagnostic results was fairly similar across all the consultations. Most surgeons gave the diagnosis in a very straightforward and abrupt manner at the outset of the consultation with no mitigation. While patients in our study conformed to the traditional information giving and receiving roles, how information was presented by surgeons shaped the subsequent sequential organization of surgeon-patient interaction and turn-taking patterns. More importantly, there was a tendency by the surgeons to move from issues of psychosocial nature to clinical matters regardless of the topics taken up in the specific encounter.

Conclusions: This study demonstrated the potential of conversation analysis as a context-sensitive method that enabled researchers to gain a more thorough understanding of dynamics of interaction in cancer consultations, thereby informing training interventions for surgeons. Our findings underscore the importance of discursive practices in shaping and encouraging (or discouraging) patient participation in oncology consultation.

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