Michael Rost
Biographic Data
| ID | 748739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Rost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Rost |
| SIGNATURE | ROST M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7480-2776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mapping loneliness prevention and alleviation interventions
Introduction: Loneliness affects 38% of Swiss residents, higher than the global average. Considering that loneliness is associated with increased morbidity and mortality akin to smoking, drinking and obesity, the state of loneliness represents a serious health risk. To date no study has been undertaken to assess the landscape of loneliness prevention and alleviation interventions (LPAIs) in a high-income country like Switzerland and to compare th…
Reconciling dependency and agency
Decision-making interactions between birthing people and providers frequently lie at the core of negative birth experiences. It is argued that decision-making frameworks often do not prioritize birthing people's needs and preferences but, for example, fetal interests, institutional needs, or providers' preferences. As a consequence, autonomy in birth is only an illusion. However, research syntheses highlight the crucial role of choice, control, a…
“Real decision-making is hard to find” - Swiss perinatal care providers’ perceptions of and attitudes towards decision-making in birth
Ineffective communication and limited autonomy frequently lie at the core of negative birth experiences. Numerous studies indicate a need to improve decision-making with a deliberate shift towards person-centered care. Thus, it is imperative to study the determinants of autonomy-depriving decision-making and ineffective communication through both provider and birthing people perspectives. Our study explores providers’ perceptions of and attitudes…
Waking up” the sleeping metaphor of normality in connection to intersex or DSD
The aim of the study is to encourage a critical debate on the use of normality in the medical literature on DSD or intersex. For this purpose, a scoping review was conducted to identify and map the various ways in which “normal” is used in the medical literature on DSD between 2016 and 2020. We identified 75 studies, many of which were case studies highlighting rare cases of DSD, others, mainly retrospective observational studies, focused on impr…
Trust trumps comprehension, visceral factors trump all
This paper addresses psychological factors that might interfere with informed consent on the part of stable patients as potential early-phase clinical trial participants. Thirty-six semistructured interviews with patients who had either diabetes or gout were conducted. We investigated stable patients’ attitudes towards participating in a fictitious first-in-human trial of a novel intervention. We focused on an in-depth analysis of those statement…
In the name of the family? Against parents’ refusal to disclose prognostic information to children
Parents frequently attempt to shield their children from distressing prognostic information. Pediatric oncology providers sometimes follow parental request for non-disclosure of prognostic information to children, invoking what we call the stability of the family argument. They believe that if they inform the child about terminal prognosis despite parental wishes, cohesion and family structure will be severely hampered. In this paper, we argue ag…
Teaching and Researching Listening
Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Listening renews its commitment to provide language educators, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of ESL, TESOL, and Applied Linguistics with a state-of-the-art treatment of the linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes underpinning oral language use, and demonstrates how they influence listening in a variety of practical contexts. This revised edition incorporates significan…
Listening in Language Learning
Learner Use of Strategies in Interaction
This paper reports on a two-phase study of L2 learner use of listener feedback, particularly their use of clarification questions, in NS-NNS discourse. The initial research questions of interest concerned the degree to which patterns in listener clarification questions could differentiate learners of varying proficiency, the degree to which use of clarification strategies (move types) could be explicitly taught (rather than developed alongside lo…
Pairallels
Content, language, and communication in a pharmacy course model. TESOL Quarterly, 20, 227-246. Krashen, S.D. (1982). Principles and practice in second language acquisition. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Lange, D.L., & Crawford-Lange, L.M. (1984). Doing the unthinkable in the second language classroom: The integration of language and culture. In T.V. Higgs (Ed.), Teaching for proficiency: The organizing principle (pp. 139-177). Lincolnwood, IL: National…
Listening in the Real World
Learner Use of Strategies in Interaction
This paper reports on a two-phase study of L2 learner use of listener feedback, particularly their use of clarification questions, in NS-NNS discourse. The initial research questions of interest concerned the degree to which patterns in listener clarification questions could differentiate learners of varying proficiency, the degree to which use of clarification strategies (move types) could be explicitly taught (rather than developed alongside lo…
Listening in the Real World
Pairallels
Content, language, and communication in a pharmacy course model. TESOL Quarterly, 20, 227-246. Krashen, S.D. (1982). Principles and practice in second language acquisition. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Lange, D.L., & Crawford-Lange, L.M. (1984). Doing the unthinkable in the second language classroom: The integration of language and culture. In T.V. Higgs (Ed.), Teaching for proficiency: The organizing principle (pp. 139-177). Lincolnwood, IL: National…
Learner Use of Strategies in Interaction
This paper reports on a two-phase study of L2 learner use of listener feedback, particularly their use of clarification questions, in NS-NNS discourse. The initial research questions of interest concerned the degree to which patterns in listener clarification questions could differentiate learners of varying proficiency, the degree to which use of clarification strategies (move types) could be explicitly taught (rather than developed alongside lo…
Listening in Language Learning
Teaching and Researching Listening
Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Listening renews its commitment to provide language educators, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of ESL, TESOL, and Applied Linguistics with a state-of-the-art treatment of the linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes underpinning oral language use, and demonstrates how they influence listening in a variety of practical contexts. This revised edition incorporates significan…
Trust trumps comprehension, visceral factors trump all
This paper addresses psychological factors that might interfere with informed consent on the part of stable patients as potential early-phase clinical trial participants. Thirty-six semistructured interviews with patients who had either diabetes or gout were conducted. We investigated stable patients’ attitudes towards participating in a fictitious first-in-human trial of a novel intervention. We focused on an in-depth analysis of those statement…
In the name of the family? Against parents’ refusal to disclose prognostic information to children
Parents frequently attempt to shield their children from distressing prognostic information. Pediatric oncology providers sometimes follow parental request for non-disclosure of prognostic information to children, invoking what we call the stability of the family argument. They believe that if they inform the child about terminal prognosis despite parental wishes, cohesion and family structure will be severely hampered. In this paper, we argue ag…
“Real decision-making is hard to find” - Swiss perinatal care providers’ perceptions of and attitudes towards decision-making in birth
Ineffective communication and limited autonomy frequently lie at the core of negative birth experiences. Numerous studies indicate a need to improve decision-making with a deliberate shift towards person-centered care. Thus, it is imperative to study the determinants of autonomy-depriving decision-making and ineffective communication through both provider and birthing people perspectives. Our study explores providers’ perceptions of and attitudes…
Waking up” the sleeping metaphor of normality in connection to intersex or DSD
The aim of the study is to encourage a critical debate on the use of normality in the medical literature on DSD or intersex. For this purpose, a scoping review was conducted to identify and map the various ways in which “normal” is used in the medical literature on DSD between 2016 and 2020. We identified 75 studies, many of which were case studies highlighting rare cases of DSD, others, mainly retrospective observational studies, focused on impr…
Reconciling dependency and agency
Decision-making interactions between birthing people and providers frequently lie at the core of negative birth experiences. It is argued that decision-making frameworks often do not prioritize birthing people's needs and preferences but, for example, fetal interests, institutional needs, or providers' preferences. As a consequence, autonomy in birth is only an illusion. However, research syntheses highlight the crucial role of choice, control, a…
Mapping loneliness prevention and alleviation interventions
Introduction: Loneliness affects 38% of Swiss residents, higher than the global average. Considering that loneliness is associated with increased morbidity and mortality akin to smoking, drinking and obesity, the state of loneliness represents a serious health risk. To date no study has been undertaken to assess the landscape of loneliness prevention and alleviation interventions (LPAIs) in a high-income country like Switzerland and to compare th…
Psychology (9 works) · Active listening (4 works) · Communication (4 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Alternative medicine (2 works)