Patient Participation in Health Care Consultations: Qualitative Perspectives

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This comprehensive new book provides answers to these questions by exploring interconnections between theory, research and practice. It draws on different disciplinary perspectives in the health and social sciences and invites comparisons between different health care settings. Patient Participation in Health Care Consultations takes a multidisciplinary approach and is key reading for students and academics in health and social sciences and for practising health care professionals. It will also be of interest to patients, carers and policy makers. Contents List of contributors List of illustrations Foreword: Communicating with and involving patients • Helen Lawal and Sue Lawal Preface Acknowledgements Part I: Setting the Scene: Debates on Patients Participation and Methods for Studing it 1 Understanding the process of patient participation • Sarah Collins, Nicky Britten, Johanna Ruusuvuori and Andrew Thompson Commentary Introduction Previous research on patient participation in health care consultations Building a more comprehensive view of patient participation The contributions of this book How to use this book Recommendations: summary 2 Methods for studying patient participation • Carol Bugge and Aled Jones Commentary Introduction Overview of methods represented in this book Mixing methods in the study of patient participation Applications of methods Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgement Recommendations: summary Part II: Patients Participation in Practice 3 The meaning of patient involvement and participation in health care consultations: A taxonomy • Andrew Thompson Commentary Introduction Models of involvement and participation in consultations Methods Results Discussion Notes Acknowledgements Recommendations: summary 4 What is a good consultation and what is a bad one? The patient perspective • Fiona Stevenson Commentary Introduction Methods Patients’ judgements of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ consultations Summary of findings Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgements Recommendations: summary 5 A feeling of equality: Some interactional features that build rapport and mutuality in a therapeutic encounter • John Chatwin, Sarah Collins, Ian Watt and Rowena Field Commentary Introduction Where encounters take place A therapeutic encounter in a hospital setting Talk about the video The naming sequence Developing rapport Deeper socialization Conclusion Acknowledgement Recommendations: summary 6 Patient participation in formulating and opening sequences • Joseph Gafaranga and Nicky Britten Commentary Introduction Patient participation and professional stocks of interactional knowledge An interactional activities perspective on patient participation Improving patients’ participation Conclusion Recommendations: summary 7 What is patient participation? Reflections arising from the study of general practice, homoeopathy and psychoanalysis • Anssi Peräkylä, Johanna Ruusuvuori and Pirjo Lindfors Commentary Patient participation in the delivery and reception of diagnosis in general practice Patient participation in the delivery of treatment decisions in homoeopathy Patient participation in the reception of interpretations in psychoanalysis Conclusion Notes Recommendations: summary 8 Nursing assessments and other tasks: Influences on participation in interactions between patients and nurses • Aled Jones and Sarah Collins Commentary Introduction Description of the data Types of nurse encounter and their different tasks The importance of nurses’ consultations with patients Forms of participation in nurse–patient encounters Discussion: influences on participation in nurse–patient encounters Conclusion Note Recommendations: summary Part III: A Conceptual Overview of Patient Participation and its Components 9 Components of participation in health care consultations: A conceptual model for research • Anssi Peräkylä and Johanna Ruusuvuori Commentary Introduction Five key components of patient participation Discussion Recommendations: summary 10 An integrative approach to patient participation in consultations • Andrew Thompson, Johanna Ruusuvuori, Nicky Britten and Sarah Collins Commentary Introduction What is patient participation? Would we recommend patient participation as a policy? How could patient participation be measured? What else do we need to know about patient participation? Conclusion Recommendations: summary Afterword: Encounters with health care: a personal viewpoint • Anon Educational Supplements Introduction Supplement to Chapter 1 Understanding the process of patient participation Supplement to Chapter 2 Methods for studying patient participation Supplement to Chapter 3 The meaning of patient involvement and participation in health care consultations Supplement to Chapter 4 What is a good consultation and what is a bad one? Supplement to Chapter 5 A feeling of equality Supplement to Chapter 6 Patient participation in formulating and opening sequences Supplement to Chapter 7 What is patient participation? Supplement to Chapter 8 Nursing assessments and other tasks Supplement to Chapter 9 Components of participation in health care consultations Supplement to Chapter 10 An integrative approach to patient participation in consultations Appendix The relative timing of utterances Characteristics of speech delivery References Index