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Title Understanding patients' voices : a multi-method approach to health discourse / Marta Antón, Elizabeth M. Goering, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
Published Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Pragmatics & beyond ; new series v. 257
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 257
Contents Understanding Patients' Voices; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Research design; 1. Health discourse and chronic disease management: An overview; 1. Chronic diseases: A global challenge; 2. Chronic disease management; 3. Linguistic and health discourse perspectives on chronic disease management; 2. Data collection methodology; 1. Beginnings; 2. Designing the interview schedule; 3. Pilot testing and revising the interview schedule; 4. Translating the interview schedul; 5. Recruiting subjects; 6. Training interviewers
7. Conducting the interviews8. Demographic profile of sample; 9. Preparing data for analysis; Appendix A; Appendix B; List of notation; II. Methodologies for data analysis; 3. Ordered probit modeling; 1. Developing a conceptual model of chronic disease management; 2. Operationalization of variables; 3. Data analysis through ordered probit modeling; 4. Results from bivariate probit estimator modeling; 5. Results from multivariate probit estimator modeling; 6. Discussion and conclusion; 4. Using corpus-based analytical methods to study patient talk; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology
3. Results and discussion4. Conclusion; Appendix A; 5. Metaphors as mirrors into what it means to be diabetic: Patients' perspectives; 1. Review of literature and development of research questions; 2. Metaphor analysis methodology; 3. Results; 4. Discussion; 5. Metaphor analysis in health research: Challenges and lessons learned; 6. Sociocultural and activity theory perspectives on agency in Spanish speaking diabetes patients; 1. Theoretical perspectives on agency; 2. Sociociocultural and activity theory perspectives on action; 3. Data collection and analysis
4. Analysis of Latino patients' life stories from an activity theory perspective5. Conclusions; 7. Contrastive methodological approaches to study health information sources by Spanish and English-; 1. Health literacy and ethnicity; 2. Methods; 3. Results; 4. Discussion and conclusion; III. Translating research into practice; 8. Adapting methodology to diverse cultural contexts; 1. Background; 2. Steps in the translation process; 3. The pilot study; 4. Conclusion; 9. Translating research into practice; 1. What to assess; 2. Ways to assess; 3. Intervention techniques; 4. Conclusion
10. Conducting transdisciplinary research1. Collaboration among disciplines; 2. ICIC narrative; 3. Reflections on the process from ICIC team; 4. Recommendations; Conclusion; References; Name index ; Subject index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Communication in medicine.
Physician and patient.
Medical personnel and patient.
Cultural competence.
Chronic diseases.
Misinformation.
Chronic Disease
Professional-Patient Relations
Communication
Physician-Patient Relations
Cultural Competency
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
Chronic diseases
Communication in medicine
Cultural competence
Medical personnel and patient
Physician and patient
Form Electronic book
Author Antón, Marta, editor
Goering, Elizabeth M., editor
LC no. 2015006229
ISBN 9789027268747
9027268746
9027256624
9789027256621