Ruth Parry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Parry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Parry |
| SIGNATURE | PARRY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4909-440X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Managing Communication Challenges in Recommending Aids and Adaptations to Activities of Daily Living in Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Assessment Consultations: A Study in a Palliative Care Se…
Often, occupational and physiotherapeutic assessment consultations involve patients discussing their problems in activities of daily living (ADL) and therapists trying to find suitable solutions. These conversations can present challenges since patients frequently reject therapists' recommendations, which can jeopardize shared decision-making, bring interactional and relational tensions, and can mean patients can lose out on potential benefit. Th…
Accessing and Using Data without Informed Consent: Guiding Principles from Conversation Analysis
We critically reflect on ethical challenges of making, accessing, and using audio/video recordings for social research in which participants have not and/or cannot provide informed consent. We distinguish between two types of data: recordings for which informed consent for use for research purposes would have been feasible but was not obtained, for example, “classic” or “legacy” data collected during the early development of Conversation Analysis…
Communication in Palliative Care and About End of Life: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review of Conversation-Analytic Research in Healthcare
I review conversation analytic research on healthcare interactions in palliative care, and end-of-life preferences and plans conversations in other settings.The review process drew on established systematic review methods.Twenty-two publications were included.Key themes were initiating and managing the topics of dying, of prognosis, and of advance care planning, and interactionally managing emotions.There is substantial, cumulative evidence about…
Conversation-Analytic Research on Communication in Healthcare: Growth, Gaps, and Potential
If there was an average day for the National Health Service in England, more than 1.2 million people would attend a primary care appointment, nearly 260,000 people would attend a secondary care outpatient appointment, more than 37,000 people would call the emergency medical service, and more than 44,000 people would attend a hospital emergency department (The King's Fund, 2023).Of course, the average day will differ across different countries and…
Should we share qualitative data? Epistemological and practical insights from conversation analysis
Over the last 30 years, there has been substantial debate about the practical, ethical and epistemological issues uniquely associated with qualitative data sharing. In this paper, we contribute to these debates by examining established data sharing practices in Conversation Analysis (CA). CA is an approach to the analysis of social interaction that relies on audio/video recordings of naturally occurring human interactions and moreover works at a …
Providing Opportunities for Patients to Say More about Their Pain without Overtly Asking: A Conversation Analysis of Doctors Repeating Patient Answers in Palliative Care Pain Assessment
As the main symptom in palliative care, pain requires careful assessment. Repeating patient answers is one recommended communication technique for helping convey to patients that they have been heard, and to encourage them to say more. We examined 23 episodes where experienced doctors repeat patients' answers with mirrored rhythm and downward-final intonation, captured in pain assessments video-recorded in 37 consultations in a large UK hospice. …
Practitioners’ Dilemmas and Strategies in Decision-Making Conversations Where Patients and Companions Take Divergent Positions on a Healthcare Measure: An Observational Study Using Conversation Analys…
The presence of companions adds complexity to healthcare interactions. Few studies have characterized challenges arising when interactions involve healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and companions, or how those challenges are managed. Using conversation analysis, we examined recorded episodes where patients and companions adopt divergent positions on healthcare measures (e.g., walking aids, homecare, medications). We found nine such episo…
What do displays of empathy do in palliative care consultations
Empathy is an important way for doctors to demonstrate their understanding of patients’ subjective experiences. This research considers the role of empathy in 37 doctor-patient palliative or end-of-life care consultations recorded in a hospice. Specifically, it focuses on four contexts in which there is a disparity between patients’ displayed experience of their illness and the doctor’s biomedical, expertise-driven perspective on their illness. T…
Communication practices that encourage and constrain shared decision making in health‐care encounters: Systematic review of conversation analytic research
Cell Phone Use While Driving: Risk Implications for Organizations
Cell phones and smartphones have become valuable tools for personal convenience and safety, as well as for conducting business and increasing productivity. In December 2013, the number of cell phone subscriber connections in the U.S. reached 335.6 million [4], representing a penetration level of more than 100% of the total U.S. population. In addition to personal convenience and safety, many people use their cell phones while driving, to leverage…
Giving Reasons for Doing Something Now or at Some Other Time
Physiotherapists often have to ask their clients to move in a certain way, and they sometimes accompany such instructions with explanations. It turns out that these practitioners have an interesting resource—they can design their explanation to bear either upon the exact movement currently in play or on a more general or future case. I show that they make this distinction largely by how they deploy explanatory connectives like because, so, and so…
Practitioners' accounts for treatment actions and recommendations in physiotherapy: When Do They Occur, How Are They Structured, What Do They Do
This paper examines healthcare communication between physiotherapists and patients during treatment sessions, using the perspectives and methods of conversation analysis. In particular, it examines communication about reasons and rationale for treatment actions by analysing physiotherapists' accounts (explanations) for these actions during treatment sessions. Circumstances in which accounts arise are identified, structural aspects described and t…
The interactional management of patients' physical incompetence: A Conversation Analytic Study of Physiotherapy Interactions
Patients' physical incompetence is a feature of many clinical interactions; the challenges it presents are not only technical but also interactional. This paper examines how interpretations and interactional consequences of physical incompetence are dealt with during stroke physiotherapy. A conversation analytic approach was used to examine video-recorded treatment sessions. Analysis demonstrated that managing physical incompetence forms an impor…
Practitioners' accounts for treatment actions and recommendations in physiotherapy: When Do They Occur, How Are They Structured, What Do They Do
This paper examines healthcare communication between physiotherapists and patients during treatment sessions, using the perspectives and methods of conversation analysis. In particular, it examines communication about reasons and rationale for treatment actions by analysing physiotherapists' accounts (explanations) for these actions during treatment sessions. Circumstances in which accounts arise are identified, structural aspects described and t…
What do displays of empathy do in palliative care consultations
Empathy is an important way for doctors to demonstrate their understanding of patients’ subjective experiences. This research considers the role of empathy in 37 doctor-patient palliative or end-of-life care consultations recorded in a hospice. Specifically, it focuses on four contexts in which there is a disparity between patients’ displayed experience of their illness and the doctor’s biomedical, expertise-driven perspective on their illness. T…
The interactional management of patients' physical incompetence: A Conversation Analytic Study of Physiotherapy Interactions
Patients' physical incompetence is a feature of many clinical interactions; the challenges it presents are not only technical but also interactional. This paper examines how interpretations and interactional consequences of physical incompetence are dealt with during stroke physiotherapy. A conversation analytic approach was used to examine video-recorded treatment sessions. Analysis demonstrated that managing physical incompetence forms an impor…
Giving Reasons for Doing Something Now or at Some Other Time
Physiotherapists often have to ask their clients to move in a certain way, and they sometimes accompany such instructions with explanations. It turns out that these practitioners have an interesting resource—they can design their explanation to bear either upon the exact movement currently in play or on a more general or future case. I show that they make this distinction largely by how they deploy explanatory connectives like because, so, and so…
Accessing and Using Data without Informed Consent: Guiding Principles from Conversation Analysis
We critically reflect on ethical challenges of making, accessing, and using audio/video recordings for social research in which participants have not and/or cannot provide informed consent. We distinguish between two types of data: recordings for which informed consent for use for research purposes would have been feasible but was not obtained, for example, “classic” or “legacy” data collected during the early development of Conversation Analysis…
The interactional management of patients' physical incompetence: A Conversation Analytic Study of Physiotherapy Interactions
Patients' physical incompetence is a feature of many clinical interactions; the challenges it presents are not only technical but also interactional. This paper examines how interpretations and interactional consequences of physical incompetence are dealt with during stroke physiotherapy. A conversation analytic approach was used to examine video-recorded treatment sessions. Analysis demonstrated that managing physical incompetence forms an impor…
Practitioners' accounts for treatment actions and recommendations in physiotherapy: When Do They Occur, How Are They Structured, What Do They Do
This paper examines healthcare communication between physiotherapists and patients during treatment sessions, using the perspectives and methods of conversation analysis. In particular, it examines communication about reasons and rationale for treatment actions by analysing physiotherapists' accounts (explanations) for these actions during treatment sessions. Circumstances in which accounts arise are identified, structural aspects described and t…
Giving Reasons for Doing Something Now or at Some Other Time
Physiotherapists often have to ask their clients to move in a certain way, and they sometimes accompany such instructions with explanations. It turns out that these practitioners have an interesting resource—they can design their explanation to bear either upon the exact movement currently in play or on a more general or future case. I show that they make this distinction largely by how they deploy explanatory connectives like because, so, and so…
Cell Phone Use While Driving: Risk Implications for Organizations
Cell phones and smartphones have become valuable tools for personal convenience and safety, as well as for conducting business and increasing productivity. In December 2013, the number of cell phone subscriber connections in the U.S. reached 335.6 million [4], representing a penetration level of more than 100% of the total U.S. population. In addition to personal convenience and safety, many people use their cell phones while driving, to leverage…
Communication practices that encourage and constrain shared decision making in health‐care encounters: Systematic review of conversation analytic research
What do displays of empathy do in palliative care consultations
Empathy is an important way for doctors to demonstrate their understanding of patients’ subjective experiences. This research considers the role of empathy in 37 doctor-patient palliative or end-of-life care consultations recorded in a hospice. Specifically, it focuses on four contexts in which there is a disparity between patients’ displayed experience of their illness and the doctor’s biomedical, expertise-driven perspective on their illness. T…
Providing Opportunities for Patients to Say More about Their Pain without Overtly Asking: A Conversation Analysis of Doctors Repeating Patient Answers in Palliative Care Pain Assessment
As the main symptom in palliative care, pain requires careful assessment. Repeating patient answers is one recommended communication technique for helping convey to patients that they have been heard, and to encourage them to say more. We examined 23 episodes where experienced doctors repeat patients' answers with mirrored rhythm and downward-final intonation, captured in pain assessments video-recorded in 37 consultations in a large UK hospice. …
Practitioners’ Dilemmas and Strategies in Decision-Making Conversations Where Patients and Companions Take Divergent Positions on a Healthcare Measure: An Observational Study Using Conversation Analys…
The presence of companions adds complexity to healthcare interactions. Few studies have characterized challenges arising when interactions involve healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and companions, or how those challenges are managed. Using conversation analysis, we examined recorded episodes where patients and companions adopt divergent positions on healthcare measures (e.g., walking aids, homecare, medications). We found nine such episo…
Should we share qualitative data? Epistemological and practical insights from conversation analysis
Over the last 30 years, there has been substantial debate about the practical, ethical and epistemological issues uniquely associated with qualitative data sharing. In this paper, we contribute to these debates by examining established data sharing practices in Conversation Analysis (CA). CA is an approach to the analysis of social interaction that relies on audio/video recordings of naturally occurring human interactions and moreover works at a …
Communication in Palliative Care and About End of Life: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review of Conversation-Analytic Research in Healthcare
I review conversation analytic research on healthcare interactions in palliative care, and end-of-life preferences and plans conversations in other settings.The review process drew on established systematic review methods.Twenty-two publications were included.Key themes were initiating and managing the topics of dying, of prognosis, and of advance care planning, and interactionally managing emotions.There is substantial, cumulative evidence about…
Conversation-Analytic Research on Communication in Healthcare: Growth, Gaps, and Potential
If there was an average day for the National Health Service in England, more than 1.2 million people would attend a primary care appointment, nearly 260,000 people would attend a secondary care outpatient appointment, more than 37,000 people would call the emergency medical service, and more than 44,000 people would attend a hospital emergency department (The King's Fund, 2023).Of course, the average day will differ across different countries and…
Accessing and Using Data without Informed Consent: Guiding Principles from Conversation Analysis
We critically reflect on ethical challenges of making, accessing, and using audio/video recordings for social research in which participants have not and/or cannot provide informed consent. We distinguish between two types of data: recordings for which informed consent for use for research purposes would have been feasible but was not obtained, for example, “classic” or “legacy” data collected during the early development of Conversation Analysis…
Managing Communication Challenges in Recommending Aids and Adaptations to Activities of Daily Living in Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Assessment Consultations: A Study in a Palliative Care Se…
Often, occupational and physiotherapeutic assessment consultations involve patients discussing their problems in activities of daily living (ADL) and therapists trying to find suitable solutions. These conversations can present challenges since patients frequently reject therapists' recommendations, which can jeopardize shared decision-making, bring interactional and relational tensions, and can mean patients can lose out on potential benefit. Th…
Conversation (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Conversation analysis (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Communication (7 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Palliative care (5 works) · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (5 works)