A comparative study concerning the verbal interaction between nurses and nursing attendants versus the AIDS patient

Abstract

The Objetives of this article were to identify the areas of verbal behavior, predominantly, exchanged between nurses versus AIDS partients and nursing attendants versus AIDS patents and to identify and compare the patterns of verbal interaction of both groups. The analysis were made based on the System of Analysis of Verbal Interaction (SAVI). The results show that the areas that took precedence suggested homogeneos speaking among the people studied. It was also attested that the nurses had a greater number of verbal acts with the patientes in serious health condition, whereas the nursing attendants presented a great number of verbal acts with the patients is a good general health condition.