An exploratory study of communication training for Chinese medicine practitioners in Hong Kong to integrate patients’ conventional medical history

Table 5 Percentages of questions asked by and conversational turns of practitioners^a

	Pre-test	Post-test	Delayed post-test
Control group (pseudo name)
TCM Practitioner 1	56	38	42
TCM Practitioner 2	91	83	63
TCM Practitioner 3	76	71	51
TCM Practitioner 4	60	61	60
Experimental group (pseudo name)
TCM Practitioner 5	65	76	81
TCM Practitioner 6	31	60	41
TCM Practitioner 7	43	71	51
TCM Practitioner 8	38	71	52

^aPercentages were preferred to absolute numbers in reporting the results because the latter approach would have created difficulties in comparing and contrasting consultations. As the length and number of turns of each consultation differed, the ratio of questions is more revealing than the absolute number of questions

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