The importance of shared language in rural behavioral health interventions: An exploratory linguistic analysis.

ABSTRACT: A focus on the use of shared language to enhance congruence in interventionist-client dialogue is missing from traditional research on evidence-based practices and rural behavioral health. This study incorporates qualitative interactional sociolinguistics, which includes discourse analysis (typically written or audio recordings of face-to-face encounters with 11 clients and a study interventionist), to describe those speech patterns in a broad sense (dialect), as well as more specific use of communicative strategies to increase parity in the interaction between a rural interventionist delivering an evidence-based practice in the context of a research study with rural women opioid users in a non-therapeutic context. Study findings indicated that in the context of delivering the intervention

SUBMITTER: Staton M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7731584 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature