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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 5.

Median (P25, P75) percentage of all speech acts by the speaker 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)* 21 (16, 28) 5 (3, 8) 24 (16, 32) 5 (3, 9) 36 (21, 56) 0 (0, 5) 12 (0, 32) 0 (0, 3) 36 (20, 50) 0 (0, 1) 15 (10, 20) 7 (3, 11) <.0001 <.0001
Closed/leading 17 (13, 23) 4 (3, 7) 18 (12, 27) 4 (2, 7) 30 (16, 50) 0 (0, 4) 1 (0, 19) 0 (0, 1) 26 (14, 40) 0 (0, 0) 12 (8, 17) 6 (2, 10) <.0001 <.0001
Open 3 (1, 5) 1 (0, 1) 3 (1, 5) 0 (0, 1) 0 (0, 7) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 4) 0 (0, 0) 5 (0, 12) 0 (0, 0) 1 (0, 3) 0 (0, 1) <.0001 <.0001
Representative 19 (14, 25) 5 (3, 8) 21 (15, 29) 5 (3, 8) 33 (20, 50) 0 (0, 5) 10 (0, 25) 0 (0, 3) 31 (15, 46) 0 (0, 1) 12 (8, 18) 6 (3, 11) <.0001 <.0001
Expressive 1 (1, 3) 0 (0, 0) 1 (0, 2) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 5) 0 (0, 0) 1 (0, 2) 0 (0, 0) <.0001 0.5024
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) 0.3621 0.9006
Representatives 35 (28, 42) 56 (49, 64) 38( 29, 46) 61 (51, 69) 20 (0, 33) 75 (58, 90) 24 (0, 44) 47 (20, 67) 8 (0, 19) 64 (48, 75) 38 (30, 46) 48 (37, 57) <.0001 <.0001
Comprehension 2 (1, 2) 3 (2, 5) 1 (0, 2) 3 (1, 6) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 4) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 3) 0 (0, 3) 2 (0, 3) 3 (1, 6) 0.0239 0.0004
Expressives 6 (3, 8) 9 (7, 14) 4 (2, 7) 8 (5, 12) 0 (0, 7) 0 (0, 13) 0 (0, 8) 7.5 (0, 20) 4 (0, 12) 12 (1, 24) 5 (3, 9) 9 (5, 14) <.0001 <.0001
Emotions 4 (2, 5) 5 (3, 8) 3 (2, 5) 4 (3, 8) 0 (0, 5) 0 (0, 3) 0 (0, 3) 0 (0, 0) 3 (0, 13) 4 (0, 10) 3 (1, 6) 5 (2, 8) <.0001 <.0001
Conv. Management 12 (10, 15) 6 (4, 9) 12 (9, 15) 6 (3, 9) 12 (0, 20) 0 (0, 8) 10 (0, 20) 0 (0, 20) 15 (6, 24) 2 (0, 6) 12 (9 16) 7 (5, 12) <.0001 <.0001
Empathy 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, 3) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) <.0001 0.5815
Directives 9 (6, 12) 1 (0, 1) 8 (5, 12) 0 (0, 1) 6 (0, 17) 0 (0, 0) 20 (0, 42) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 10) 0 (0, 0) 8 (4, 12) 1 (0, 3) <.0001 0.0005
Commisives 2 (1, 3) 1 (0, 2) 1 (0, 2) 0 (0, 2) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 8) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 3 (1, 5) 2 (0, 4) <.0001 <.0001
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) 0.4385 0.0642
Social rituals 1 (0, 2) 1 (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) 2 (1, 4) 2 (0, 4) 0.4637 0.9349
Missing 4 (2, 6) 5 (3, 8) 3 (2, 6) 5 (3, 8) 0 (0, 3) 0 (0, 6) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 10) 0 (0, 5) 4 (0, 9) 4 (2, 7) 5 (3, 9) <.0001 0.0001

Totals 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
*

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 linear mixed models with random effect (provider and patient level) to compare across 4 topic domains for providers and patients.