TY  - GEN
AB  - Background: Instruction in exercise therapy aims at patients being able to correctly perform exercises. The analysis of instructional sequences (i.e., questions) examines the achievement of social actions during exercise therapy. This study investigated physiotherapists’ questions for patients’ initiations of exercises and analyzed patients’ verbal and embodied responses, focusing on actions performed by physiotherapists’ question designs and patients’ responses. Study findings add to the evidence of underrepresented Chinese population. Methods: Data were collected from two Hong Kong rehabilitation centers. Forty-seven consultations (6 physiotherapists; 16 patients) were video-recorded and analyzed using Conversation Analysis. Interactional features including verbal (e.g., vocabulary, grammar, turn-taking) and nonverbal aspects (e.g., gaze and gesture) were examined. Results: Ninety-eight questions were posed by physiotherapist during the initial phase of exercise. Five categories were identified: invitations, memory check, information seeking, understanding check, or adherence check. Physiotherapists’ questions led to a variety of embodied and verbal outcomes. Implications: The multimodal analysis of exercise instruction demonstrates that initiations of exercises are situated in task-relevant actions. Physiotherapists set the agenda regarding the exercise choice. Overall, physiotherapists and patients orient to verbal and nonverbal resources without precedence from either. The importance of non-verbal communication during exercises is highlighted.
AD  - Department of Rehabilitation SciencesThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China ; HESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
AD  - Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
AU  - Schoeb, Veronika
AU  - Yip, Adrian
CY  - Singapour
DA  - 2020-06
DO  - 10.1007/978-981-15-4389-0_8
DO  - DOI
ED  - Watson, Bernadette
ED  - Krieger, Janice
ID  - 5661
JF  - Expanding horizons in health communication : An asian perspective
KW  - instruction
KW  - exercise therapy
KW  - conversation analysis
KW  - chinese
L1  - https://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/5661/files/published%20version.pdf
L2  - https://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/5661/files/published%20version.pdf
L4  - https://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/5661/files/published%20version.pdf
LA  - eng
LK  - https://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/5661/files/published%20version.pdf
N2  - Background: Instruction in exercise therapy aims at patients being able to correctly perform exercises. The analysis of instructional sequences (i.e., questions) examines the achievement of social actions during exercise therapy. This study investigated physiotherapists’ questions for patients’ initiations of exercises and analyzed patients’ verbal and embodied responses, focusing on actions performed by physiotherapists’ question designs and patients’ responses. Study findings add to the evidence of underrepresented Chinese population. Methods: Data were collected from two Hong Kong rehabilitation centers. Forty-seven consultations (6 physiotherapists; 16 patients) were video-recorded and analyzed using Conversation Analysis. Interactional features including verbal (e.g., vocabulary, grammar, turn-taking) and nonverbal aspects (e.g., gaze and gesture) were examined. Results: Ninety-eight questions were posed by physiotherapist during the initial phase of exercise. Five categories were identified: invitations, memory check, information seeking, understanding check, or adherence check. Physiotherapists’ questions led to a variety of embodied and verbal outcomes. Implications: The multimodal analysis of exercise instruction demonstrates that initiations of exercises are situated in task-relevant actions. Physiotherapists set the agenda regarding the exercise choice. Overall, physiotherapists and patients orient to verbal and nonverbal resources without precedence from either. The importance of non-verbal communication during exercises is highlighted.
PB  - Springer
PP  - Singapour
PY  - 2020-06
SN  - 978-981-15-4388-3
SN  - 2363-6890
T1  - Instructions as actions for initiating exercise therapy in physiotherapy in Hong Kong
TI  - Instructions as actions for initiating exercise therapy in physiotherapy in Hong Kong
UR  - https://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/5661/files/published%20version.pdf
VL  - The Humanities in Asia, 6
Y1  - 2020-06
ER  -