Healthcare communication

Research in this theme aims to improve patient outcomes by optimising healthcare interactions, including developing tools to enhance empathy and positive messages, evaluating agenda-setting within consultations, and detailed conversation analysis of video- and audio-recorded consultations to improve communication.

Active Projects

ACCU - Antenatal Couples’ Counselling in Uganda

Empathica - Expectation Management for Patients in Primary Care: Developing and Feasibility Testing a New Digital Intervention for Practitioners

Integrating primary care and social services for older adults with multimorbidity: A mixed-methods study

MACRO - Defining best management for adults with chronic rhinosinusitis

PROMDEP - Patient-reported outcome measures for monitoring primary care patients with depression: PROMDEP randomised controlled trial.

REMOTION study - Remote discussion of emotional symptoms in telephone versus face-to-face primary care consultations

Talking in Primary Care 2: Testing the effects of communication skills e-learning for practitioners on patients musculoskeletal pain and enablement (TIP2)

Recently Completed Projects

Family Planning: Fact or Fiction?

MOMA - Investigating the feasibility of a mobile mindfulness-based digital intervention for patients with asthma

OPEN - Out of Hours Prescribing: Enhancing Communication

Key research staff working on this theme

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