Verona Coding Definitions of Emotional Sequences (VR-CoDES): Conceptual framework and future directions

Abstract

VR-CoDES may be applied to develop interventions to promote good handling of patients' emotions in healthcare encounters.

Does emotional talk vary with fears of cancer recurrence trajectory? A content analysis of interactions between women with breast cancer and their therapeutic radiographers

“…Some articles report systematic methods to analyse the communication features of the clinical /patient interaction [16][17][18]. The Verona Coding Definitions of Emotional Sequences (VR-CoDES) is a coding scheme that is especially suited to explore, in exquisite detail, the hidden emotional cues that are presented by patients, including those treated for serious diseases including cancer [19][20][21][22]. The system has been validated [23] and has already been employed in over 40 studies since its development [24].…”

Cue-Responding Behaviors During Pharmacy Counseling Sessions With Patients With Asthma About Inhaled Corticosteroids: Potential Relations With Medication Beliefs and Self-Reported Adherence

“…Replication of this study is recommended. Furthermore, we are aware of the fact that after the MIARS had been developed, a new system called VR-CoDES is now endorsed in the field of communication studies (Del Piccolo, Finset, & Zimmermann, 2009). However, since our previous study about the content of counseling sessions at the pharmacy revealed that these sessions are for a great part instrumental , we decided to use the expanded MIARS that has a part to measure this as well.…”

Automated screening for distress: A perspective for the future

“…Future research needs to focus on automated approaches to screening for distress in cancer patients which are independent of other related conditions (such as anxiety and depression) and is designed specifically to identify symptoms associated with distress. Guidance can be found in promising work from the Forensic (Roberts, 2011) and Health (Del Piccolo et al, 2017) areas where it has been shown that speech independently carries latent properties for inferring distress.…”

“…Their system matches patient identified concerns with the problem list and proposes evidence‐based treatment suggestions and referrals. Other studies (Barracliffe, Arandjelovic, & Humphris, ; Del Piccolo et al, ; Zhou et al, ) have exploited Verona Coding Definitions of Emotional Sequences (VR‐CoDES) (Del Piccolo et al, ) for distress assessment. VR‐CoDES were developed for the detection and categorisation emotions of patients and their healthcare physicians to identify an explicit concern, an emotional cue or neither.…”