Relationship between utterance and attendance across most common response typesa (N = 226)
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| 1. Yeah | 1 | DOC: | What that means is that erm we can offer you erm erm basically a support programme to help with you losing weight. | + − | 19 23 | n/a n/a | n/a n/a | 1 (comparator) | N/A |
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| 2. Oh-prefaced positive response | 1 | DOC: | It’s free (.) with this referral | + | 16 (84) | 19 (45) | 0.008 | 6.27 | 1.68 to 30.48 |
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| 3. Right | 1 | DOC: | What they’re offering here is for you to go and be funded to join a group weight management session, one of the commercial companies. | + − | 8 (67) 4 (33) | 19 (45) 23 (55) | 0.33 | 2.38 | 0.62 to 10.34 |
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| 4. Yes | 1 | DOC: | We know the best way for you to lose weight is for you to go for a commercial weight management service. I can refer you now for free if you’d like. | + − | 8 (50) 8 (50) | 19 (45) 23 (55) | 0.97 | 1.21 | 0.37 to 3.95 |
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| 5. Okay | 1 | DOC: | So (.) as part of this study er we’re able to offer you these sessions without any cost (.) [to yourself, | + − | 8 (40) 12 (60) | 19 (45) 23 (55) | 0.91 | 0.81 | 0.26 to 2.41 |
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| 6. No | 1 | DOC: | And we can give you a free voucher for this so you could freely take part in this (.) would you be interested in this. | + − | 2 (20) 16 (80) | 19 (45) 23 (55) | 0.02 | 0.16 | 0.02 to 0.69 |
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| 7. Marked positive stance | 1 | DOC: | You get given twelve free sessions at uh Weight Watchers which I think is in Citychester Is that something that you’d quite fancy doing? | + − | 26 (79) 7 (21) | 19 (45) 23 (55) | 0.006 | 4.40 | 1.59 to 13.14 |
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| 8. Marked negative stance | 1 | DOC: | We know that the best way for you to lose weight is to go to a commercial weight management service (.) and I can refer you now for free if-if you like, | + − | 1 (14) 6 (86) | 19 (45) 23 (55) | 0.26 | 0.21 | 0.008 to 1.57 |
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CWMS = commercial weight management service. DOC = doctor. N/A = not applicable. PAT = patient. (.) indicates gap in talk of <0.3 seconds. A full stop at end of turn represents falling intonation. Comma at end of turn indicates slight rise in intonation.[ indicates where talk is overlapping.
↵a Only eight of the 19 different response types are explored in this study and presented in this article.