Table 3 Mean and percentagea of occurrence of the various coding categories (N=130 visits)
Counsellor(s) | Counselee | Other(s) b | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M | s.d. | % | M | s.d. | % | M | s.d. | % | |
Socio-emotional communication | |||||||||
Social talk | 22.6 | 19.2 | 2.1 | 18.8 | 12.9 | 1.7 | 6.5 | 14.7 | 0.5 |
Agreement | 128.4 | 64.7 | 11.4 | 183.8 | 88.8 | 16.8 | 30.2 | 50.3 | 2.5 |
Concern | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
Verbal attention | 3.7 | 3.4 | 0.4 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Reassurance | 1.2 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Disagreement | 1.1 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 0.0 |
Total | 157.1 | 69.7 | 14.1 | 206.5 | 92.4 | 18.9 | 37.5 | 62.1 | 3.0 |
Task-oriented communication | |||||||||
Orientation | 60.1 | 31.4 | 5.8 | 10.3 | 7.6 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 5.7 | 0.2 |
Partnership building behaviour | |||||||||
Clarification | 1.7 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
Paraphrase | 83.2 | 33.2 | 7.9 | 23.8 | 19.7 | 2.1 | 6.4 | 10.4 | 0.6 |
Opinion | 1.4 | 11.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Total | 86.3 | 35.6 | 8.2 | 24.4 | 19.8 | 2.2 | 6.5 | 10.7 | 0.6 |
Questions | |||||||||
Medical condition, counselee | 3.6 | 3.6 | 0.3 | 4.7 | 5.5 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 0.1 |
Screening/prophylactic surgery, counselee | 1.2 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
Medical condition, relative(s) | 16.6 | 10.5 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 0.0 |
Pedigree data | 7.9 | 7.6 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.0 |
Communication within family | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Lifestyle | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Agenda | 3.9 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
Psychosocial issues | 2.4 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
Current feelings | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Total | 37.2 | 18.7 | 3.7 | 6.9 | 7.1 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 4.7 | 0.2 |
Information | |||||||||
Medical condition, counselee | 139.2 | 68.7 | 12.8 | 27.7 | 28.2 | 2.4 | 4.1 | 9.6 | 0.3 |
Screening/prophylactic surgery, counselee | 9.4 | 13.4 | 0.8 | 6.1 | 7.8 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
Medical condition, relative(s) | 6.9 | 8.1 | 0.7 | 62.7 | 38.1 | 6.0 | 11.3 | 24.8 | 1.0 |
Pedigree data | 0.7 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 22.7 | 17.0 | 2.2 | 3.6 | 9.7 | 0.3 |
Communication within family | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 2.1 | 0.1 |
Lifestyle | 0.6 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 7.2 | 10.8 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 3.1 | 0.1 |
Agenda | 3.0 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 26.2 | 16.9 | 2.4 | 3.7 | 8.4 | 0.3 |
Psychosocial issues | 3.1 | 5.0 | 0.3 | 30.4 | 28.2 | 2.6 | 5.3 | 11.9 | 0.4 |
Current feelings | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 0.0 |
Total | 163.6 | 78.1 | 15.1 | 191.8 | 90.1 | 17.5 | 30.8 | 58.7 | 2.5 |
Counselling | |||||||||
Cancer risk/DNA test, counselee | 30.3 | 20.8 | 2.9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Screening/prophylactic surgery, counselee | 7.2 | 7.7 | 0.7 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Cancer risk/screening advice, relative(s) | 18.3 | 18.3 | 1.6 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Advice/request about family communication | 1.7 | 2.7 | 0.2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Lifestyle | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Education about agenda | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Education about psychosocial issues | 6.6 | 9.6 | 0.6 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Total | 64.5 | 34.7 | 5.9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Other utterances | 1.1 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 2.6 | 0.1 |
Additional measures | |||||||||
Psychosocial focus | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | — | ||||
Conversational contribution | 52.9 | 40.5 | 6.7 | ||||||
