Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"The contributors to this book are experts in their field, adding a credibility that helps the reader relax. The varied experiences of people working not only within the UK but also Finland - where much of the work in this area has been caried out - are showcased."
Nursing Standard How does patient participation work in practice? What does it look like when it happens? How can it be researched and how can it be taught? This comprehensive new book provides answers to these questions by exploring interconnections between theory, research and practice. It draws on different disciplinary perspectives in the health and social sciences and invites comparisons between different health care settings.

With patient participation as the central theme, this book:

Patient Participation in Health Care Consultations takes a multidisciplinary approach and is key reading for students and academics in health and social sciences and for practising health care professionals. It will also be of interest to patients, carers and policy makers.

Contributors: Sarah Collins, Nicky Britten, Carol Bugge, John Chatwin, Rowena Field, Joseph Gafaranga, Aled Jones, Pirjo Lindfors, Anssi Perakyla, Johanna Ruusuvuori, Fiona Stevenson, Andrew Thompson, Ian Watt.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of contributors (p. ix)
• List of illustrations (p. xi)
• Foreword: Communicating with and involving patients (p. xiii)
• Preface (p. xv)
• Acknowledgements (p. xvii)
• Part I Setting the Scene: Debates on Patient Participation and Methods for Studying it (p. 1)
• 1 Understanding the process of patient participation (p. 3)
• Commentary (p. 3)
• Introduction (p. 4)
• Previous research on patient participation in health care consultations (p. 7)
• Building a more comprehensive view of patient participation (p. 15)
• The contributions of this book (p. 16)
• How to use this book (p. 20)
• Recommendations: summary (p. 21)
• 2 Methods for studying patient participation (p. 22)
• Commentary (p. 22)
• Introduction (p. 23)
• Overview of methods represented in this book (p. 23)
• Mixing methods in the study of patient participation (p. 24)
• Applications of methods (p. 24)
• Discussion (p. 34)
• Conclusion (p. 39)
• Acknowledgement (p. 39)
• Recommendations: summary (p. 40)
• Part II Patient Participation in Practice (p. 41)
• 3 The meaning of patient involvement and participation in health care consultations: A taxonomy (p. 43)
• Commentary (p. 43)
• Introduction (p. 44)
• Models of involvement and participation in consultations (p. 46)
• Methods (p. 47)
• Results (p. 50)
• Discussion (p. 61)
• Notes (p. 63)
• Acknowledgements (p. 63)
• Recommendations: summary (p. 64)
• 4 What is a good consultation and what is a bad one? The patient perspective (p. 65)
• Commentary (p. 65)
• Introduction (p. 66)
• Methods (p. 67)
• Patients' judgements of 'good' and 'bad' consultations (p. 68)
• Summary of findings (p. 78)
• Discussion (p. 79)
• Conclusion (p. 81)
• Acknowledgements (p. 81)
• Recommendations: summary (p. 82)
• 5 A feeling of equality: Some interactional features that build rapport and mutuality in a therapeutic encounter (p. 83)
• Commentary (p. 83)
• Introduction (p. 84)
• Where encounters take place (p. 86)
• A therapeutic encounter in a hospital setting (p. 90)
• Talk about the video (p. 93)
• The naming sequence (p. 95)
• Developing rapport (p. 98)
• Deeper socialization (p. 101)
• Conclusion (p. 102)
• Acknowledgement (p. 103)
• Recommendations: summary (p. 103)
• 6 Patient participation in formulating and opening sequences (p. 104)
• Commentary (p. 104)
• Introduction (p. 105)
• Patient participation and professional stocks of interactional knowledge (p. 106)
• An interactional activities perspective on patient participation (p. 110)
• Improving patients' participation (p. 117)
• Conclusion (p. 118)
• Recommendations: summary (p. 119)
• 7 What is patient participation?: Reflections arising from the study of general practice, homoepathy and psychoanalysis (p. 121)
• Commentary (p. 121)
• Patient participation in the delivery and reception of diagnosis in general practice (p. 122)
• Patient participation in the delivery of treatment decisions in homoeopathy (p. 126)
• Patient participation in the reception of interpretations in psychoanalysis (p. 132)
• Conclusion (p. 139)
• Notes (p. 142)
• Recommendations: summary (p. 142)
• 8 Nursing assessments and other tasks: Influences on participation in interactions between patients and nurses (p. 143)
• Commentary (p. 143)
• Introduction (p. 144)
• Description of the data (p. 145)
• Types of nurse encounter and their different tasks (p. 146)
• The importance of nurses' consultations with patients (p. 148)
• Forms of participation in nurse-patient encounters (p. 150)
• Discussion: influences on participation in nurse-patient encounters (p. 160)
• Conclusion (p. 163)
• Note (p. 163)
• Recommendations: summary (p. 163)
• Part III A Conceptual Overview of Patient Participation and its Components (p. 165)
• 9 Components of participation in health care consultations: A conceptual model for research (p. 167)
• Commentary (p. 167)
• Introduction (p. 167)
• Five key components of patient participation (p. 168)
• Discussion (p. 173)
• Recommendations: summary (p. 175)
• 10 An integrative approach to patient participation in consultations (p. 176)
• Commentary (p. 176)
• Introduction (p. 177)
• What is patient participation? (p. 177)
• Would we recommend patient participation as a policy? (p. 185)
• How could patient participation be measured? (p. 188)
• What else do we need to know about patient participation? (p. 191)
• Conclusion (p. 192)
• Recommendations: summary (p. 192)
• Afterword: Encounters with health care: a personal viewpoint (p. 194)
• Educational Supplements (p. 197)
• Appendix Transcript notation for conversation analysis (p. 213)
• References (p. 215)
• Index (p. 233)