Patient - friendly information giving in HIV counselling through the use of metaphor

HIV counselling is a method of communication between patients and certified HIV nurse counsellors to discuss and help patients deal with HIV-related issues. Despite the training received by these nurses, communicating HIV-related issues remains a difficult task in Malaysia. Due to lack of research e...

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Main Authors: Haladin, Nur’ain Balqis, Ibrahim, Noor Aireen, Hanafi Zaid, Yasmin
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spelling my.utm.1086902024-12-08T08:08:55Z http://eprints.utm.my/108690/ Patient - friendly information giving in HIV counselling through the use of metaphor Haladin, Nur’ain Balqis Ibrahim, Noor Aireen Hanafi Zaid, Yasmin HE Transportation and Communications P Philology. Linguistics HIV counselling is a method of communication between patients and certified HIV nurse counsellors to discuss and help patients deal with HIV-related issues. Despite the training received by these nurses, communicating HIV-related issues remains a difficult task in Malaysia. Due to lack of research examining information giving in HIV counselling in Malaysia, this study investigated both the challenges and the strategies in providing information to HIV patients. Twenty-four audio recordings of actual HIV counselling sessions were gathered and six focus group discussions with HIV nurse counsellors from three government hospitals in Malaysia were recorded. The discourse analysis of revealed a prominent use of metaphors as part of information giving strategies to overcome the challenges faced by HIV nurse counsellors when communicating with HIV patients. The metaphors were embedded in HIV nurse counsellors’ information giving to HIV patients and their spouse/family as a way to represent some medical jargons pertaining to HIV. Since the HIV patients came from different educational background, it would be much easier for them to understand HIV-related information giving through the use of metaphors. Therefore, the acknowledgement and integration of metaphors can be an amazingly valuable tool for HIV nurse counsellors especially in managing the communication challenges during HIV counselling. It is hoped that the findings provided in this study will serve as a basis for integrating metaphors into counselling practices. Penerbit UTM Press 2022-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/108690/1/NurainBalqis2022_PatientFriendlyInformationGivinginHIV.pdf Haladin, Nur’ain Balqis and Ibrahim, Noor Aireen and Hanafi Zaid, Yasmin (2022) Patient - friendly information giving in HIV counselling through the use of metaphor. LSP International Journal, 9 (2). pp. 27-39. ISSN 0128-732X http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/lspi.v9.19138 DOI:10.11113/lspi.v9.19138
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic HE Transportation and Communications
P Philology. Linguistics
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P Philology. Linguistics
Haladin, Nur’ain Balqis
Ibrahim, Noor Aireen
Hanafi Zaid, Yasmin
Patient - friendly information giving in HIV counselling through the use of metaphor
description HIV counselling is a method of communication between patients and certified HIV nurse counsellors to discuss and help patients deal with HIV-related issues. Despite the training received by these nurses, communicating HIV-related issues remains a difficult task in Malaysia. Due to lack of research examining information giving in HIV counselling in Malaysia, this study investigated both the challenges and the strategies in providing information to HIV patients. Twenty-four audio recordings of actual HIV counselling sessions were gathered and six focus group discussions with HIV nurse counsellors from three government hospitals in Malaysia were recorded. The discourse analysis of revealed a prominent use of metaphors as part of information giving strategies to overcome the challenges faced by HIV nurse counsellors when communicating with HIV patients. The metaphors were embedded in HIV nurse counsellors’ information giving to HIV patients and their spouse/family as a way to represent some medical jargons pertaining to HIV. Since the HIV patients came from different educational background, it would be much easier for them to understand HIV-related information giving through the use of metaphors. Therefore, the acknowledgement and integration of metaphors can be an amazingly valuable tool for HIV nurse counsellors especially in managing the communication challenges during HIV counselling. It is hoped that the findings provided in this study will serve as a basis for integrating metaphors into counselling practices.
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author Haladin, Nur’ain Balqis
Ibrahim, Noor Aireen
Hanafi Zaid, Yasmin
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Ibrahim, Noor Aireen
Hanafi Zaid, Yasmin
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title Patient - friendly information giving in HIV counselling through the use of metaphor
title_short Patient - friendly information giving in HIV counselling through the use of metaphor
title_full Patient - friendly information giving in HIV counselling through the use of metaphor
title_fullStr Patient - friendly information giving in HIV counselling through the use of metaphor
title_full_unstemmed Patient - friendly information giving in HIV counselling through the use of metaphor
title_sort patient - friendly information giving in hiv counselling through the use of metaphor
publisher Penerbit UTM Press
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url http://eprints.utm.my/108690/1/NurainBalqis2022_PatientFriendlyInformationGivinginHIV.pdf
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