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Published in final edited form as: Health Commun. 2012 Mar 21;28(2):110–118. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2011.652935

Table 3.

Comparison of utterances of socio-emotional or task-related talk between ACTIVE and standard meetings, by type of team member [mean (95% confidence interval)].

Team member	Type of talk	ACTIVE meeting	Standard meeting	p-value^a
RN	Socio-emotional	5.05 (3.14 – 6.96)	0.8 (0.29 – 1.31)	0.001
	Task-related	11.8 (9.63 – 14.0)	7.0 (3.26 – 10.74)	0.08
Social worker	Socio-emotional	1.45 (0.84 – 2.06)	0.0	<0.001
	Task-related	2.75 (1.68 – 3.82)	0.75 (0.12 – 1.38)	0.009
Chaplain	Socio-emotional	0.85 (0.33 – 1.37)	0.0	0.005
	Task-related	0.80 (0.34 – 1.26)	0.3 (−0.05 – 0.65)	0.154
Physician	Socio-emotional	0.55 (0.09 – 1.01)	1.0 (0.08 – 1.92)	0.446
	Task-related	3.65 (1.15 – 6.15)	7.2 (2.43 – 11.97)	0.223
Other	Socio-emotional	1.95 (0.31 – 3.59)	0.3 (−0.02 – 0.62)	0.065
	Task-related	1.95 (0.10 – 3.80)	1.9 (1.05 – 2.75)	0.961

Paired t-tests between ACTIVE and standard meetings, by team member and type of communication. Utterances by caregivers and technology-related utterances are not included.