Ross, Jamie;
Poduval, Shoba;
Albury, Charlotte;
Lau, Annie;
Whitaker, Niccy;
Stevenson, Fiona;
(2024)
Achieving patient weighing in UK primary care. A conversation analytic study.
SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
, 5
, Article 100384. 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100384.
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Abstract
Addressing issues of weight with people with type 2 diabetes is increasingly becoming part of the workload of primary care. This includes taking weight measurements during consultations. Evidence suggests that weighing is experienced as difficult for health professionals and patients. This study explores how weighing is accomplished and identifies strategies and practices that can be used in primary care settings. Data are drawn from two large UK based archives of over 600 audio and video recorded primary care consultations. Conversation analysis was used to systematically inspect the consultation data. We identified the linguistic practices employed by GPs and resulting interactions around the measurement of weight in primary care. Seven consultations form this corpus. We identify the sequential interactional pattern through which GPs and patients engage to achieve weighing and identify delicacy features in GPs talk which are used to build alignment with patients to achieve weighing. The analysis also highlighted the ways in which GPs justify their need to weigh patients, including marking the measurement as clinically necessary and preferring a need for an objective measure of weight. The analyses highlight that patient responses to requests to weigh are varied and that weighing patients can necessitate considerable interactional effort. Achieving weighing of patients in primary care consultations requires considerable interactional work between GPs and patients and it is important for the delicacy of these requests to be appreciated. There is a need for greater attention to how to achieve weighing, given the increasing attention weight has in relation to health.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Achieving patient weighing in UK primary care. A conversation analytic study |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100384 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100384 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Diabetes, weighing, weight, primary care, medical interactions, clinical communication |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Primary Care and Population Health |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10184001 |
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