Self-Repair Practices in Pharmacist-Patient Interaction and their Role in Preventing Misunderstanding and Maintaining Medication Safety
Linguistic research
Rami Maher Delli
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Jagdish Kaur
University of Malaya, Malaysia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6803-5635
Siew Mei Pauline Lai
University of Malaya, Malaysia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9940-9644
Francisco Perlas Dumanig
University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA
Published 2022-04-15
https://doi.org/10.15388/RESPECTUS.2022.41.46.107
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Keywords

pharmacist-patient interaction
misunderstanding
medication errors
self-repair practices
verbatim repeat
conversation analysis
COVID-19

How to Cite

Delli, R.M. (2022) “Self-Repair Practices in Pharmacist-Patient Interaction and their Role in Preventing Misunderstanding and Maintaining Medication Safety”, Respectus Philologicus, (41 (46), pp. 53–66. doi:10.15388/RESPECTUS.2022.41.46.107.

Abstract

Effective communication between pharmacists and patients can prevent medication errors as it enhances patients’ understanding of their medication and increases their adherence. As misunderstanding may occur in any type of interaction and lead to communication breakdown, repair practices that speakers adopt to enhance understanding in interaction are an especially important area of research in Conversation Analysis (CA). As such, this study aims to identify and explain the self-repair practices used by pharmacists to increase patient understanding in spoken interaction. The study was conducted at the University of Malaya Medical Centre from November to December 2014. Four pharmacists and 27 patients were recruited to participate in an intervention study. A detailed sequential analysis of interaction data revealed the pharmacists’ use of replacement, clarification, verbatim repeat, and repetition with an elaboration designed to increase the clarity and accuracy of the intended message and improve patient understanding. Self-repair practices may have an essential role in increasing medication safety in the healthcare setting.

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