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Table 3 Percentage of participants’ positive judgments by Guliver Coding System-category and country

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

NL

IT

UK

BE

Category

Non-verbal behaviour

69.1

74.4

90.0

59.0

62.6

Structuring

86.0

94.1

92.3

68.5

89.8

Summarizing

84.2

97.8

78.0

71.4

87.1

Patient involvement

71.7

97.3

76.7

71.1

72.3

Speaking peculiarities

27.7

23.1

41.7

17.9

36.8

Task-oriented attitude

95.6

95.9

99.6

92.2

95.3

Collecting information

74.8

81.7

89.4

63.5

69.5

Giving information

91.4

86.7

100

87.9

92.8

Providing solution

95.3

100

97.2

73.3

97.0

Affective-oriented attitude

97.2

95.3

100

95.1

97.9

Total

86.6

86.7

93.8

78.6

87.8