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Table 4 Nursing staff responses to concerns and cues by VR-CoDES sum categories and elicitation

From: The use of supportive communication when responding to older people’s emotional distress in home care – An observational study

 

Emotion focused responses (n = 304)

Non-emotion focused responses (n = 334)

All responses (n = 638)

Patient elicited

Nursing staff elicited

Patient elicited

Nursing staff elicited

Patient elicited

Nursing staff elicited

VR-CoDES sum categories

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Emotional references

43 (39)

92 (47)

49 (29)

43 (26)

92 (33)

135 (38)

Emotional states/circumstances

59 (54)

101 (52)

115 (68)

121 (73)

174 (62)

222 (62)

Contextual hints to emotion

8 (7)

1 (0)

5 (3)

1 (0)

13 (5)

2 (1)

Total responses

110

194

169

165

279

359