I see how you feel: Recipients obtain additional information from speakers’ gestures about pain3/29/2017 By Emma Greijn I seem to find interesting articles relating to understanding patients pain and nonverbal communication. Of course this is kind of an important thing to study since, after all, when you are in a hospital in pain I'm sure you would like to be understood. In this article I found, the researchers, Samantha J. Rowbothama, Judith Hollerd, Alison Weardena, , and Donna M. Lloyde, looked at "whether recipients can obtain additional information from gestures about the pain that is being described." The reason for this study, is similar to why I keep finding articles like this relating to pain, because pain is a common theme in healthcare setting. Being able to understand what a patient is feeling internally or externally can be very difficult, but very important. The researchers say that verbal communication, though also important, may not be the one and only indicator for understanding what a person is going through. The method used in this study included 135 participants, both male and female, which they were shown videos of 1) speech only (SO), 2) speech and gesture with faces obstructed (SG), 3) speech, gesture, and face (SGF), and 4) speech, gesture, and face plus instruction (SGF - Instructed). The videos consisted of 21 female participants with the dependent variable being "the amount of information contained in participants' responses that was directly traceable to the gestures contained in the clips." They showed clips such as this one to the right. The results for this study were as follows "Post hoc comparisons indicated that participants in the conditions where gestures were visible (SG, SGF and SGF-Instruction) obtained significantly more information than those in the SO condition, with this additional information directly traceable to gestures (SG: p < .001, d = 2.79; SGF: p < .001, d = 2.32; SGF-Instruction: p < 0.001, d = 4.00)." This means there is significant data showing that gestures are in fact an important part of pain assessment. As we recently learned in class, gestures can speak for themselves, so paying attention to both verbal and nonverbal communication can better aid in proper diagnosis and care for patients. The study concludes by saying "These findings add weight to the idea that we should be looking as well as listening to those in pain in order to ensure that pain communication is as successful as possible." Source:
Rowbotham, S. J., Holler, J., Wearden, A., & Lloyd, D. M. (2016). I see how you feel: Recipients obtain additional information from speakers’ gestures about pain. Patient Education and Counseling,99(8), 1333-1342. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2016.03.007
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