Sentence examples for patient discourse from inspiring English sources

Looking at Table 6, the most frequently sensed Phenomena in the patient discourse included conversations or messages that were referred to anaphorically (e.g. 'I understand that') or through identifying relational processes (e.g. 'what I really want to know is …').

Table 11 shows the distribution of mental activities that were conveyed through the use of semiotic relational processes in the patients' discourse.

This theme revolved around practitioners' and patients' discourse about their respective roles to support self-management.

Finally, data will be interpreted along the context they were collected, looking for possible influences of researchers in the patients' discourse.

GPs and patients' discourses about HPP in PHC were different in priorities and contents.

GPs' and patients' discourses about HPP in PHC differed in priorities and contents.

Another trend present in the patients' discourses axis is the greater or lesser degree of self-responsibility concerning HPP.

Figure 1 shows the main dimensions and "meaning axes" that affect HPP in PHC from the analysis of GPs and patients' discourses.

Also, some components of well known theoretical models as the health belief model, the socio-ecological model, or the social learning model [ 16], may have been identified in patients' discourses, but no isolated model can explain their meaning by themselves as all of them appeared intermingled.

A patient education discourse essentially sees patients as passive and uninformed whereas a patient empowerment discourse conceptualises patients as competent and resourceful.

This resonates with a patient education discourse.