The restoring of equilibrium after a traumatic event makes it possible to give a new significance to patients' existence, and healthcare professionals simultaneously find themselves very close to questions of pain and disability. For these reasons, we introduced weekly group meetings of healthcare professionals and patients suffering from vascular, traumatic or neurological accidents, and meetings of professionals only at the Neurocognitive Rehabilitation Day Hospital of the University of Milan Bicocca. The aim of this paper is to identify possible indicators of changes in patients' existence through a conversational analysis, describing the experience at the light of methodological approach and reporting the results of a pilot observational study. The patient meetings began in October 2011 and led to a process of greater closeness and trust that was expressed by means of words, gestures, emotional participation, and non-verbal communication. The pilot considers the evolution of indicators in a sample of 14 patients for a period of 9 months and a timeframe of 3 months. Supportive interventions decreased while elements of sharing progressively increased, leading to progressive increased consciousness of both self and the disease. The group of professionals found that being together allowed them to distinguish performance as the use of their technical skills from understanding the other and his/her experience as part of their own, and not only linked to the disease. The professionals' reflections on their experiences led to the emergence of two possible ways of looking at a patient: as somebody other than me or somebody other like me

Perin, C., Beghi, M., Cerri, C., Peroni, F., Vigano', B., Cornaggia, C. (2015). Experience of group conversations in rehabilitation medicine: methodological approach and pilot study. JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND THE PERSON, 13(2), 96-104 [10.1007/s12682-015-0208-7].

Experience of group conversations in rehabilitation medicine: methodological approach and pilot study

PERIN, CECILIA
Primo
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BEGHI, MASSIMILIANO
Secondo
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CERRI, CESARE GIUSEPPE;PERONI, FEDERICA;VIGANO', BARBARA
Penultimo
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CORNAGGIA, CESARE MARIA
Ultimo
2015

Abstract

The restoring of equilibrium after a traumatic event makes it possible to give a new significance to patients' existence, and healthcare professionals simultaneously find themselves very close to questions of pain and disability. For these reasons, we introduced weekly group meetings of healthcare professionals and patients suffering from vascular, traumatic or neurological accidents, and meetings of professionals only at the Neurocognitive Rehabilitation Day Hospital of the University of Milan Bicocca. The aim of this paper is to identify possible indicators of changes in patients' existence through a conversational analysis, describing the experience at the light of methodological approach and reporting the results of a pilot observational study. The patient meetings began in October 2011 and led to a process of greater closeness and trust that was expressed by means of words, gestures, emotional participation, and non-verbal communication. The pilot considers the evolution of indicators in a sample of 14 patients for a period of 9 months and a timeframe of 3 months. Supportive interventions decreased while elements of sharing progressively increased, leading to progressive increased consciousness of both self and the disease. The group of professionals found that being together allowed them to distinguish performance as the use of their technical skills from understanding the other and his/her experience as part of their own, and not only linked to the disease. The professionals' reflections on their experiences led to the emergence of two possible ways of looking at a patient: as somebody other than me or somebody other like me
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Conversation analysis; Outcome; Pilot study; Rehabilitation; Stroke; Trauma
English
7-mag-2015
2015
13
2
96
104
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Perin, C., Beghi, M., Cerri, C., Peroni, F., Vigano', B., Cornaggia, C. (2015). Experience of group conversations in rehabilitation medicine: methodological approach and pilot study. JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND THE PERSON, 13(2), 96-104 [10.1007/s12682-015-0208-7].
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