Comunicação não verbal entre enfermeiros e idosos à luz da proxêmica

Abstract

The aim is to analyze the nonverbal communication between nurses and the elderly in the nursing consultation based on the theory by Hall. The research concerns a descriptive exploratory study and it has a quantitative approach. It took place through filmings of the nursing consultations which happened in Health Basic Units in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, observed every minute, a total of 1.575 nonverbal interactions. The analysis has showed the predominance of the female nurses (90.63%) and the elderly (65.63) and a regular classification for most of the factors as a prevalence of a sitting set (80.09), opposite chairs (64.46%), personal distance (91.40%), calm facial expression (59.78%), touch was used for a technical procedure (53.33%), visual interaction for the manipulation of the objects (57.69) and no alteration in the voice volume (48.79%). These results reflect the necessity of the nurses to domain consciously their corporal and facial manifestations in order to improve the interaction with the elderly.

The Effect of the Speech Task Characteristics on Perceptual Judgment of Mild to Moderate Dysphonia: A Methodological Study

“…Thirdly, connected speech is more frequently heard in daily life of the judge, conferring a greater auditory experience and memory of the dysphonic voice. Concerning our values of correlation coefficients, they are lower than in the studies of Freitas et al [25] and Law et al [13]. A possible explanation is the discrepancies between our studies related to the severity of the overall dysphonia since our group is mainly composed of mild to moderate dysphonia.…”

“…The perceptual evaluation of the voice quality is a complex cognitive process implying interrelated known and unknown mechanisms such as training and experience of the judge, the knowledge of the patient’s medical history, the used tool to assess the voice quality, and the type of speech stimuli [17, 25, 26]. Most of the studies interested in these mechanisms used heterogeneous or moderate to severe dysphonic speech samples, inferring their results to all states of dysphonia.…”