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Using conversation analysis to inform role play and simulated interaction in communications skills training for healthcare professionals: identifying avenues for further development through a scoping review (2018)
Journal Article
Pilnick, A., Trusson, D., Beeke, S., O 'brien, R., Goldberg, S., & Harwood, R. H. (2018). Using conversation analysis to inform role play and simulated interaction in communications skills training for healthcare professionals: identifying avenues for further development through a scoping review. BMC Medical Education, 18, Article 267. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-018-1381-1

Background: This paper responds to previously published debate in this journal around the use of sociolinguistic methods in communication skills training (CST), which has raised the significant question of how far consultations with simulated patient... Read More about Using conversation analysis to inform role play and simulated interaction in communications skills training for healthcare professionals: identifying avenues for further development through a scoping review.

Imagined constructed thought: how staff interpret the behaviour of patients with intellectual disabilities (2018)
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Webb, J. C., Pilnick, A., & Clegg, J. (2018). Imagined constructed thought: how staff interpret the behaviour of patients with intellectual disabilities. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 51(4), 347-362. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2018.1523893

This paper examines ‘imagined constructed thought’: speakers giving voice to the inner world of a non-present other. Drawing on 9 hours of video footage of health-care staff discussing patients with intellectual disabilities during Discovery Awarenes... Read More about Imagined constructed thought: how staff interpret the behaviour of patients with intellectual disabilities.

The VOICE study – a before and after study of a dementia communication skills training course (2018)
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O’Brien, R., Goldberg, S. E., Pilnick, A., Beeke, S., Schneider, J., Sartain, K., …Harwood, R. H. (2018). The VOICE study – a before and after study of a dementia communication skills training course. PLoS ONE, 13(6), Article e0198567. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198567

Background A quarter of acute hospital beds are occupied by persons living with dementia, many of whom have communication problems. Healthcare professionals lack confidence in dementia communication skills, but there are no evidence-based communic... Read More about The VOICE study – a before and after study of a dementia communication skills training course.

The categorisation of resistance: interpreting failure to follow a proposed line of action in the diagnosis of autism amongst young adults (2018)
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Hollin, G., & Pilnick, A. (2018). The categorisation of resistance: interpreting failure to follow a proposed line of action in the diagnosis of autism amongst young adults. Sociology of Health and Illness, 40(7), 1215-1232. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12749

sessions and ask how diagnosticians distinguish between interactional resistance as, on the one hand, a diagnostic indicator and, on the other, as a reasonable choice from a range of possible responses. We find evidence of various forms of resistance... Read More about The categorisation of resistance: interpreting failure to follow a proposed line of action in the diagnosis of autism amongst young adults.

Doing patient-centredness versus achieving public health targets: a critical review of interactional dilemmas in ART adherence support (2018)
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De Kok, B., Widdicombe, S., Pilnick, A., & Laurier, E. (2018). Doing patient-centredness versus achieving public health targets: a critical review of interactional dilemmas in ART adherence support. Social Science and Medicine, 205, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.03.030

Anti-retroviral Therapy (ART) transformed HIV into a chronic disease but its individual and public health benefits depend on high levels of adherence. The large and rising number of people on ART, now also used as prevention, puts considerable strain... Read More about Doing patient-centredness versus achieving public health targets: a critical review of interactional dilemmas in ART adherence support.

Should I stay or should I go?: how healthcare professionals close encounters with people with dementia in the acute hospital setting (2017)
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Allwood, R., Pilnick, A., O'Brien, R., Goldberg, S., Harwood, R. H., & Beeke, S. (2017). Should I stay or should I go?: how healthcare professionals close encounters with people with dementia in the acute hospital setting. Social Science and Medicine, 191, 212-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.09.014

Around a quarter of hospital beds in the UK are occupied by patients living with dementia (PWD), and communication impairments are common across all types of dementia, often exacerbated by the hospital environment. Unsurprisingly, healthcare professi... Read More about Should I stay or should I go?: how healthcare professionals close encounters with people with dementia in the acute hospital setting.

Advice, authority and autonomy in shared decision making in antenatal screening: the importance of context (2016)
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Pilnick, A., & Zayts, O. (in press). Advice, authority and autonomy in shared decision making in antenatal screening: the importance of context. Sociology of Health and Illness, 38(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12346

Shared decision making has been widely advocated across many branches of healthcare, yet there is considerable debate over both its practical application and how it should be examined or assessed. More recent discussions of SDM have highlighted the i... Read More about Advice, authority and autonomy in shared decision making in antenatal screening: the importance of context.

Between stigma and pink positivity: women’s perceptions of social interactions during and after breast cancer treatment (2016)
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Trusson, D., & Pilnick, A. (2017). Between stigma and pink positivity: women’s perceptions of social interactions during and after breast cancer treatment. Sociology of Health and Illness, 39(3), 458-473. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12486

This study explores women’s perceptions of social interaction during and after their treatment for early stage breast cancer. Analysis of interviews with 24 women between 6 months-29 years post-diagnosis, reveals that interactions can be influenced b... Read More about Between stigma and pink positivity: women’s perceptions of social interactions during and after breast cancer treatment.

The Role of Hair Loss in Cancer Identity: Perceptions of Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia Among Women Treated for Early-Stage Breast Cancer or Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (2016)
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Trusson, D., & Pilnick, A. (2017). The Role of Hair Loss in Cancer Identity: Perceptions of Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia Among Women Treated for Early-Stage Breast Cancer or Ductal Carcinoma in Situ. Cancer Nursing, 40(2), E9–E16. https://doi.org/10.1097/NCC.0000000000000373

Background: The trauma of chemotherapy-induced alopecia is well documented. However, less is known about how the stereotypical cancer identity affects social interactions. Objective: The aim of this study is to explore women's experiences of hair... Read More about The Role of Hair Loss in Cancer Identity: Perceptions of Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia Among Women Treated for Early-Stage Breast Cancer or Ductal Carcinoma in Situ.

A new normal?: Women's experiences of biographical disruption and liminality following treatment for early stage breast cancer (2016)
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Trusson, D., Pilnick, A., & Roy, S. (2016). A new normal?: Women's experiences of biographical disruption and liminality following treatment for early stage breast cancer. Social Science and Medicine, 151, 121-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.01.011

Increasing numbers of women are surviving breast cancer, but little is known about the long-term implications of having survived a life-threatening illness and living with embodied reminders of its potential to return. Twenty-four women aged between... Read More about A new normal?: Women's experiences of biographical disruption and liminality following treatment for early stage breast cancer.

Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: a method for reflexive analysis in health and social care (2015)
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James, D. M., Pilnick, A., Hall, A., & Collins, L. C. (2016). Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: a method for reflexive analysis in health and social care. Social Science and Medicine, 151, 38-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.12.040

In our study of a workforce intervention within a health and social care context we found that participants who took part in longitudinal research interviews were commonly enacting scenes from their work during one-to-one interviews. Scenes were defi... Read More about Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: a method for reflexive analysis in health and social care.

“It's just a likelihood”: uncertainty as topic and resource in conveying “positive” results in an antenatal screening clinic (2014)
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Pilnick, A., & Zayts, O. (2014). “It's just a likelihood”: uncertainty as topic and resource in conveying “positive” results in an antenatal screening clinic. Symbolic Interaction, 37(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.99

The recognition of uncertainty as a pivotal issue for the sociology of medicine is longstanding. More recently, the widespread integration of new medical technologies into healthcare has led to a renewed analytic focus on uncertainty. However, there... Read More about “It's just a likelihood”: uncertainty as topic and resource in conveying “positive” results in an antenatal screening clinic.

“I'm thrilled that you see that”: guiding parents to see success in interactions with children with deafness and autistic spectrum disorder (2013)
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Pilnick, A., & James, D. (2013). “I'm thrilled that you see that”: guiding parents to see success in interactions with children with deafness and autistic spectrum disorder. Social Science and Medicine, 99, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.10.009

Children with deafness who are also on the autistic spectrum are a group with complex support needs. Carers worry about their ability to communicate with them, and are often uncertain about what constitutes ‘good’ communication in this context. This... Read More about “I'm thrilled that you see that”: guiding parents to see success in interactions with children with deafness and autistic spectrum disorder.