Caregivers’ contribution to deliberation sequences (in both tables, examples have been translated by the author from Italian)
| Types of contributions by caregivers to deliberation sequences | Examples from corpus |
|---|---|
| - Provide information | - Fill in: DOCTOR: What do you have for breakfast? Coffee with milk and two slices of rusk … PATIENT: Two slices of rusk DOCTOR: … or biscotti? PATIENT: No, two slices of rusk, toasted bread DOCTOR: Ah! that’s a different thing, toasted bread WIFE: No, it’s not toasted, it’s those slices of bread that you can toast but we don’t toast it - Specify: DOCTOR: any physical activity? PATIENT: well, we walk a bit HUSBAND: a bit, a bit, now she’s doing a bit DOCTOR: you do it or very little? PATIENT: yes, we only go walking HUSBAND: we go walking in the park |
| - Request explanations | DOCTOR: … then you wait six or seven days and you record your evening glucose values again PATIENT: in the evening, ok DOCTOR: then you wait six or seven days … ok? DAUGHTER: more or less always one week? DOCTOR: yes, well, wait I would like to explain to you, it’s not so much one week that matters … |
| - Request information | PATIENT: so I can take this? Can I take this one normally? DOCTOR: so, they give it as an alternate to [NAME OF PILLS] WIFE: but is it the same thing? DOCTOR: it’s the same |
| - “Vice doctor,” critical attitude | DOCTOR: you were 77 kilos, now you are 76, I would like a 70. So maybe we can take this year to … PATIENT: ok DOCTOR: … ok? This year and we try by the end of the year, beginning of the next to get there PATIENT: all right DAUGHTER: yes, but not in the sense that if it’s in one year to start dieting the past three months (Daughter: “quindi deve farlo la mattina e la sera? Dopo cena?” … “no così lo so anch’io e la controllo” (P_2-2)) |
| - Shift to an irrelevant topic | PATIENT: I have to look after my grandchildren, one is 1 the other is 1 and a half … yeah, well, with them I do move around a lot, but … DOCTOR: but probably it’s not the same … PATIENT: Yeah, it’s not the same I was doing before HUSBAND: walking … I go walking too |
| Types of contributions by caregivers to deliberation sequences | Examples from corpus |
|---|---|
| - Provide information | - Fill in: |
| - Request explanations | DOCTOR: … then you wait six or seven days and you record your evening glucose values again |
| - Request information | PATIENT: so I can take this? Can I take this one normally? |
| - “Vice doctor,” critical attitude | DOCTOR: you were 77 kilos, now you are 76, I would like a 70. So maybe we can take this year to … |
| - Shift to an irrelevant topic | PATIENT: I have to look after my grandchildren, one is 1 the other is 1 and a half … yeah, well, with them I do move around a lot, but … |
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