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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 31.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2011 Feb;16(2):178–197. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2010.535109

Table 5.

Content category codes, by participant (N = 8,819)

Content category Oncologist (n = 39)
Patient (n = 180)
Family (n = 137)
Total
Frequency % Frequency % Frequency % Frequency %
Introduction 306 5.2 59 2.8 16 1.9 381 4.0
Purpose 17 0.4 9 0.3 1 0.1 27 0.3
Care logistics 314 5.3 579 27.8 239 29.3 1,132 12.8
Disease 672 11.3 307 12.0 99 12.1 1,078 12.2
Treatment 569 9.3 509 24.2 241 29.4 1,319 14.9
Preferences and values 270 4.5 133 6.3 47 5.7 450 5.0
Procedures 27 0.5 5 0.2 0 0 32 0.3
Medical history 2,616 44.2 159 7.5 44 5.3 2,819 31.9
Clinical trials 21 0.4 34 1.6 23 2.7 78 0.8
Psychosocial 803 13.7 98 4.1 37 4.4 938 10.6
Emotion 189 3.2 17 0.8 6 0.6 212 2.0
Prognosis 121 1.9 165 7.7 67 8.1 353 4.0
Total 5,925 67.2 2,074 23.5 820 9.3 8,819 98.8

Note. Percentages represent total for speaker.