Table 5.
Displays of Emotions in Patient-Initiated & Doctor-Responsive Actions
Level of Expressed Emotion | Fear | Uncertainty | Hope | Averages | ||||
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Patients | Doctors | Patients | Doctors | Patients | Doctors | Patients | Doctors | |
| ||||||||
Hearably unemotional | 0.0% | 1.3% | 0.0% | 1.4% | 0.0% | 5.0% | 0.0% | 2.6% |
Minimum emotion | 96.9% | 96.1% | 98.8% | 97.4% | 98.8% | 94.2% | 98.2% | 95.9% |
Marked/ expressive emotion | 3.1% | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1.2% | 0.8% | 1.8% | 1.5% |
Totals | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |