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Apr 19, 2024
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COMS 8470 - Communication and Uncertainty in Health and Illness
Uncertainty is common in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment for many illnesses, and in relationships among patients, care providers, and family members, where illnesses experiences are addressed. Communication is a source of illness-related uncertainty, a resource for dealing with such uncertainty, and most generally the medium through which the presence and meanings of uncertainty are constructed. This course examines the nature of illness-related uncertainty, and theory and research on communication and uncertainty related to instrumental, identity, relational, and affect management; it examines these issues in contexts such as health information seeking, health screening and genetic testing, diagnosis and medically unexplained symptoms, treatment decisions, including end-of-life care, and social support.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to define and differentiate various forms of uncertainty
- Students will be able to analyze discourse to identify forms of uncertainty represented in patient, care provider, family member, and others¿ illness-related discourse
- Students will be able to be able to apply the concept of form-specific adaptation of communication about uncertainty
- Students will be able to compare, contrast, and evaluate different theories of uncertainty and health communication
- Students will be able to plan and be able to conduct research on communication and uncertainty in illness
- Students will be able to evaluate practices that have been developed for enhancing communication about uncertainty in illness
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