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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 31.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2013 Jan;17(1):148–159. doi: 10.1007/s10461-012-0143-z

Table 4.

Median (P25, P75) per-visit distribution of speech act counts, for providers and patients in all topic codes biomedical codes, psychosocial codes, for cases in whom there was some ARV adherence talk, and for cases in which there was some ARV problem solving talk. This table only uses cases (n=317) in which ARVs were in use.

All
(n=317)
Biomedical
Non ARV related
(n=317)
ARV Adherence
(n=286)
ARV problem
solving talk
(n=48)
Psychosocial
(n=268)
Other
(n=317)
p-value**

Provider Patient Provider Patient Provider Patient Provider Patient Provider Patient Provider Patient Provider Patient
Questions (all types)* 55 (36, 78) 11 (5, 18) 27 (16, 46) 5 (2, 9) 4 (2, 8) 0 (0, 1) 1 (0, 4) 0 (0, 1) 6 (3, 11) 0 (0, 1) 13 (7, 20) 4 (1, 8) <.0001 <.0001
 Closed/leading 45 (29, 64) 9 (4, 16) 22 (12, 38) 4 (2, 7) 4 (2, 6) 0 (0, 1) 0.5 (0, 3) 0 (0, 1) 5 (2, 9) 0 (0, 1) 10 (6, 17) 3 (1, 7) <.0001 -
 Open 8 (3, 12) 1 (0, 2) 4 (2, 6) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 0) 1 (0, 2) 0 (0, 0) 1 (0, 3) 0 (0, 1) <.0001 <.0001
 Representative 49 (32, 71) 10 (5, 17) 25 (14, 40) 5 (2, 8) 4 (2, 7) 0 (0, 1) 1 (0, 3) 0 (0, 1) 5 (2, 9) 0 (0, 1) 10 (6, 18) 4 (1, 7) <.0001 <.0001
 Expressive 4 (1, 7) 0 (0, 1) 1 (0, 3) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 0) 1 (0, 2) 0 (0, 0) <.0001 -
 Check understanding 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) <.0001 -
Representatives 90 (60, 135) 114 (74, 172) 44 (26, 71) 55 (31, 88) 2 (0, 6) 7 (3, 14) 1 (0, 6) 2 (1, 8) 2 (0, 5) 15 (6, 36) 34 (19, 55) 27 (15, 45) <.0001 <.0001
Comprehension 4 (2, 7) 7 (4, 11) 1 (0, 3) 3 (1, 6) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 1) 1 (0, 3) 2 (1, 4) <.0001 <.0001
Expressives 14 (7, 24) 20 (10, 34) 5 (2, 9) 7 (3, 14) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 2) 0 (0, 1) 1 (0, 2) 1 (0, 3) 4 (1, 9) 5 (2, 9) 5 (2, 11) <.0001 -
Emotions 9 (5, 16) 10 (5, 18) 4 (2, 6) 4 (2, 8) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 0) 1 (0, 3) 1 (0, 4) 3 (1, 6) 3 (1, 6) <.0001 -
Conv. Management 33 (21, 47) 12 (7, 21) 15 (9, 22) 5 (3, 9) 1.5 (0, 3) 0 (0, 1) 1 (0, 3) 0 (0, 1) 3 (1, 6) 1 (0, 3) 11 (6, 17) 4 (2, 8) <.0001 <.0001
Empathy 1 (0, 3) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 2) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 0) <.0001 -
Directives 22 (13, 37) 1 (0, 3) 11 (5, 19) 0 (0, 1) 1 (0, 3) 0 (0, 0) 2 (0, 5) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 3) 0 (0, 0) 7 (3, 12) 1(0, 2) <.0001 <.0001
Commisives 4 (2, 8) 2 (1, 4) 1 (0, 3) 0 (0, 2) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 3 (1, 5) 1 (0, 2) - -
Jokes 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 1) - -
Social rituals 2 (1, 4) 2 (0, 3) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 2 (1, 4) 1 (0, 3) - -
Missing 10 (6, 17) 11 (6, 20) 4 (2, 8) 5 (2, 9) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 1) 1 (0, 3) 4 (2, 7) 3 (1, 7) <.0001 <.0001

Totals 267 (190, 354) 207 (136, 294) 130 (79, 183) 91 (55, 149) 12.5 (6, 23) 9 (4, 22) 7.5 (3, 22) 5 (2, 15) 17 (7, 36) 25 (9, 60) 93 (58, 134) 60 (34, 91)
*

The two question subtypes (closed/leading vs. open, and representative vs. expressive vs. check understanding) are different exhaustive methods of characterizing question asking.

**

P-values are global p-values calculated using the generalized linear mixed models for nonnormal data with random effect (provider and patient level) to compare across 4 topic domains for providers and patients. ‘−’ means because two few counts for the speech act, p-value could not be calculated.