Recent Conversation Analytic work has revealed that there are systematic
differences between the ways in which patients with epilepsy and patients
with “psychogenic” non-epileptic seizures (NES) describe their seizure
experiences. But these differences may not become apparent if patients are
exposed to traditional fact-oriented questioning. This article describes a oneday intervention workshop, informed by Conversation Analysis, which was
designed to help doctors change their history-taking style and solicit
diagnostically useful narrative features. A comparison of video-recordings of
38 routine consultations before the intervention, and 20 consultations after
it, showed that the intervention had the desired effect. Doctors' problem
presentation solicitation changed, and the patient responses were better
suited to revealing diagnostically-relevant features of their talk. Data in
British English.
Funding
This project was funded by Epilepsy Action.
History
School
Social Sciences
Department
Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume
47
Issue
3
Pages
266 - 279
Citation
JENKINS, L. and REUBER, M., 2014. A conversation analytic intervention to help neurologists identify diagnostically relevant linguistic features in seizure patients’ talk. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 47(3), pp. 266 - 279.
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Publication date
2014
Notes
This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Research on Language and Social Interaction on 06 Aug 2014 available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2014.925664