Table 2.
Transition and Marginal Frequencies of Patient-Provider Communication Behaviors during Medical Encounters.
| Provider (Given) behaviors | Patient (Target) behaviors |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change Talk | Commitment Language | Sustain Talk | HIV-Related | Other Statements | Total | |
| Affirmation | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 47 |
| Emphasize Autonomy | 7 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 23 | 46 |
| General Information Positive | 33 | 14 | 12 | 82 | 169 | 310 |
| General Information Negative | 7 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 46 | 91 |
| Reflection of Commitment Language | 1 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 52 |
| Reflection of Change Talk | 16 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 37 |
| Reflection of Sustain Talk | 2 | 3 | 32 | 1 | 9 | 47 |
| Other Reflections | 3 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 260 | 283 |
| Open Question to Elicit Change Talk | 11 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 19 |
| Open Question to Elicit Commitment Language | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Open Question to Target Behavior Neutral | 5 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 38 |
| Open Question to Elicit Sustain Talk | 1 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 26 |
| Other Open Questions | 1 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 362 | 384 |
| Closed Question to Elicit Change Talk | 52 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 78 |
| Closed Question to Elicit Commitment Language | 4 | 71 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 99 |
| Closed Question to Target Behavior Neutral | 16 | 38 | 20 | 103 | 26 | 203 |
| Closed Question to Elicit Sustain Talk | 9 | 25 | 95 | 6 | 11 | 146 |
| Other Closed Questions | 15 | 9 | 12 | 20 | 1797 | 1853 |
| MI Inconsistent Strategies | 5 | 11 | 13 | 18 | 66 | 113 |
| Other Statements | 30 | 30 | 34 | 59 | 1363 | 1516 |
| Total | 232 | 267 | 317 | 367 | 4213 | 5396 |