Language and culture in health communication in an emergency context: do health practitioners and patients talk differently about uncertainty and risk?

ObjectiveTo explore how expressions of uncertainty are used and understood by patients and their health practitioners (HPs) in language-concordant vs. language-discordant consultations and to invoke CAT to identify the use of communication strategies, with a focus on HPs.MethodsThis qualitative stud...

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Main Authors: Vanda Nissen, Renata F. I. Meuter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1110558/full