Table 1.
RIAS Codes, Conversation Examples, and Descriptive Statistics per Visit
| NURSE | CAREGIVER | PATIENT | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VARIABLE | EXAMPLE | MEAN FREQ (SD) | R* | Percent** | MEAN FREQ (SD) | R* | Percent** | MEAN FREQ (SD) | R* | Percent ** |
| Physical Care Domain | ||||||||||
| Physical Care Information | His blood pressure is 136/80. The red spot his on tailbone is getting bigger. |
116.39 (82.01) | 3–487 | 37.42 | 74.58 (67.52) | 0–328 | 45.20 | 47.71 (49.70) | 0–379 | 48.19 |
| Physical Care Questions | Has he eaten today? Is it OK to still get him into his chair? |
39.01 (23.49) | 0–137 | 12.54 | 10.36 (12.00) | 0–109 | 6.28 | 5.38 (6.82) | 0–40 | 5.43 |
| Teach, Activate, and Partner (Nurse) | Now I am going to take her blood pressure. Is it all right if we talk about your getting out of bed on your own? We can work as a team to make sure Jim’s pain is under control. |
18.30 (15.64) | 0–130 | 5.88 | – – |
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| Lifestyle/Psychosocial Domain | ||||||||||
| Lifestyle/Psychosocial Info | I’ve been working out in the yard most days. It always bothers him if he isn’t the first to see the newspaper. |
25.50 (26.05) | 0–202 | 8.20 | 37.65 (55.58) | 0–756 | 22.82 | 14.86 (24.12) | 0–184 | 15.01 |
| Lifestyle/Psychosocial Questions | Is your daughter still really upset? Has the new grandbaby come yet? |
9.09 (8.91) | 0–53 | 2.92 | 2.96 (3.80) | 0–24 | 1.80 | 2.01 (3.18) | 0–24 | 2.03 |
| Emotional Domain | ||||||||||
| Positive Emotion | We love you! My pants are getting kinda loose but that just means I’m going to look great in the Christmas pictures right? |
22.13 (15.10) | 0–106 | 7.12 | 8.82 (9.71) | 0–66 | 5.35 | 5.87 (8.12) | 0–60 | 5.93 |
| Emotional Response | It’s okay to feel that way; I’m so sorry. Wow, that’s rough |
12.25 (13.41) | 0–89 | 3.94 | 2.05 (3.68) | 0–24 | 1.24 | .94 (2.03) | 0–20 | 0.95 |
| Distress (Patient and Caregiver) | I just can’t stand to see my wife in pain. I don’t know if I can do this much longer. |
– | – | – | 4.34 (3.09) | 0–71 | 2.63 | 4.44 (9.14) | 0–87 | 4.48 |
| Total Utterances | ||||||||||
| MEAN FREQ (SD) | R* | Percent *** | MEAN FREQ (SD) | R* | Percent *** | MEAN FREQ (SD) | R* | Percent *** | ||
| Total Utterances | 311 (161) | 42–968 | 54.19 | 165 (139) | 0–1045 | 28.70 | 99 (96) | 0–776 | 17.22 | |
*
R refers the range of particular category by speaker. In the bottom row, it refers to range for total talk by a speaker.
**
These columns represent the percentage of talk in a particular category relative to all talk by the speaker.
***
These columns represent the percentage of a speaker’s total talk relative to all speakers’ talk during a visit.