Publications

Publication details [#60358]

Baker, Susan C. and Bernadette M. Watson. 2015. How Patients Perceive Their Doctors’ Communication: Implications for Patient Willingness to Communicate. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 34 (6) : 621–639.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative competence | communicative dynamism | discourse strategy | doctor-patient conversation | health

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This inquiry underscores health communication's intergroup characteristics. Canadian and Australian participants disclosed that health professionals’ communicative competence (and related strategies) best portended patients' readiness to communicate.