"maintaining rapport" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the importance of creating or maintaining a relationship between two or more people. For example, "My manager was really good at maintaining rapport with his coworkers."
Concerns about parental receptiveness and maintaining rapport were key barriers to more effective implementation.
Maintaining rapport was considered critical in encouraging parents to attend for future visits, allowing nurses to fulfil their role in monitoring and supporting child growth and development.
Qualitative analysis revealed that parental receptiveness and maintaining rapport with parents was a key driver of MCH nurse practices related to obesity prevention in infants and children.
Specific training has been developed to convert clinicians from conversational to block styles of computer use, and to identify communication skills that assist in maintaining rapport with the patient whilst using the computer in the consultation [ 11].
Instead, practical methods demonstrated to be important in community-based research including reliance on and respect for the clinic infrastructure and staff, hiring culturally sensitive staff, and maintaining rapport and sensitivity to participant experiences were used.
A central theme emerging from the analysis of the qualitative interviews was the importance of parental receptiveness and maintaining rapport with parents in influencing obesity prevention practices (Fig. 1).
I catch myself doing it; so keen to maintain rapport and show empathy by maintaining eye contact, I sneak what chances I can to glance at exposed parts of the body, particularly the wrists and the upper arms.
Telephone contacts were regularly made to remind participants of group or individual sessions, and to maintain rapport with the participant.
These positive experiences also helped reduce anxiety, maintained rapport and a positive patient provider relationship, and encouraged CSA survivors to continue participating in screening programmes.
Of the women in the usual care group, 70 (57%) received three phone calls to maintain rapport, resulting in a usual care group mean of 2.36 (SD 0.91) calls.
Some physicians felt conflicted on how to effectively engage the patient in a productive conversation in this context while trying to maintain rapport as articulated by one participant: "…I don't ever want to come off as condescending in my interactions with the patient- but it is a little condescending to be prescribing expensive therapies as someone who can afford it to someone who can't.
