Boosting dialogue

The professional culture in healthcare still suffers from a widespread paternalistic approach that often hinders appropriate involvement of patients and their caregivers in the management of healthcare. Surely, a change in medical curricula would be an important step towards a change in the way interactions happen in the medical setting. However, in order to design such integration effectively, it would be necessary to know also empirically, not only theoretically, which strategies could be more effective in achieving the institutional goals of interactions in medical setting. This WP aims to improve dialogues in medical settings by:

• Understanding the relationship between already existing competences in relation to individuals’ external environment: what does this combination of factors look like in real-life deliberations between doctors and patients? Understanding this would allow us to suggest more effective interventions to boost individuals’ capacity to “redesign aspects of their external environment”.
• Setting up an intervention aimed at boosting participants’ dialogical competences relative to deliberation, assuming that higher quality deliberative exchanges generate decisions that have been agreed upon by all participants in the discussion and will thus be followed, especially by patients.