Systematic Coding of Observed human Behavior (SCOBe).

💥 How actively do patients and their companions communicate with their healthcare providers during medical consultations? Are health care providers responsive to their patients and companions concerns? How does non-verbal communication evolve throughout a healthcare interaction?

👀 Addressing these types of questions is essential to identify how healthcare communication naturally unfolds, and how it may be improved. A multitude of coding systems exist to assess such communication. However, methodological reporting of studies developing or applying coding systems lacks rigor and standardisation.

🌟 Members of EACH: International Association for Communication in Healthcare, have led an interdisciplinary project to establish a reporting guideline for Systematic Coding of Observed human Behavior (SCOBe). The SCOBe guideline supports researchers to ensure comprehensive methodological reporting about their work and assess the work of others, ensuring methodological quality.

🚀 The paper presenting the SCOBe guideline is now available online: https://lnkd.in/e9evdb85. The accompanying SCOBe checklist can be downloaded from EQUATOR: Equator_SCOBe.

🙌 Thanks to #EACH members Marij Hillen, Janneke Noordman, Richard Brown, Gerald Humphris, and all other collaborators, as well as Lorentz Center for enabling the development process.