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Table 2 Percentage frequency distribution of participant statements by country. Underlined percentage frequency showed a relevant adjusted residual (based on difference between observed and expected frequency)

From: How do national cultures influence lay people’s preferences toward doctors’ style of communication? A comparison of 35 focus groups from an European cross national research

Guliver coding system

Total sample

Country

Category

Count

%

NL %

IT%

UK%

BE%

Non verbal communication

414

8.03

8.3

7.2

8.5

7.9

Structuring

653

12.7

11.5

7.8

12.6

16.9

Summarizing

164

3.2

3.7

4.2

3.5

2.2

Patient involvement

215

4.2

4.3

4.4

5.0

3.2

Speaking peculiarities

206

4.0

5.6

3.7

4.2

2.7

Task-oriented attitude

1227

23.8

19.2

26.4

28.3

21.6

Collecting information

480

9.3

11.5

6.4

10.3

8.6

Giving information

264

5.1

4.3

4.1

6.0

5.6

Providing solution

144

2.8

4.0

4.0

1.4

2.3

Affective-oriented attitude

1390

27.0

27.6

31.7

20.65

29.1

Total (count)

5157

100

1214

1027

1409

1507