Using root metaphors to analyze communication between nurses and patients: a qualitative study

dc.contributor.authorÁlvarez, Isabel
dc.contributor.authorSelva Pareja, Laia
dc.contributor.authorMedina, José Luis
dc.contributor.authorSáez Cárdenas, Salvador
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-01T11:22:33Z
dc.date.available2017-12-01T11:22:33Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractMetaphors in communication can serve to convey individuals’ backgrounds, contexts, experiences, and worldviews. Metaphors used in a health care setting can help achieve consensual communication in professional–patient relationships. Patients use metaphors to describe symptoms, or how disease affects them. Health professionals draw on shared understanding of such metaphors to better comprehend and meet patient needs, and to communicate information that patients can more easily integrate into their lives. This study incorporated a theoretical framework based on four worldviews, each with an underlying foundational metaphor (root metaphor). The use of these root metaphors (formism, mechanism, contextualism, and organicism) can have an explanatory function and serve to impart new meanings, as each type of metaphor can lead to a particular interpretation. The study aimed to extract and discuss the root metaphors, with a view to analyzing the communication between health professionals and patients.ca_ES
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-1059-0
dc.identifier.idgrec028778
dc.identifier.issn1472-6920
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/60596
dc.language.isoengca_ES
dc.publisherBioMed Centralca_ES
dc.relation.isformatofReproducció del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-1059-0ca_ES
dc.relation.ispartofBMC Medical Education, 2017, vol. 17, núm. 216, p.1-11ca_ES
dc.rightscc-by (c) Álvarez et al., 2017ca_ES
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessca_ES
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectCommunicationca_ES
dc.subjectMetaphorsca_ES
dc.subjectWorldviewsca_ES
dc.subjectChronic patientsca_ES
dc.titleUsing root metaphors to analyze communication between nurses and patients: a qualitative studyca_ES
dc.typearticleca_ES
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionca_ES
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