Table 1.
Participant demographics for veterinarians (n = 15) in role-play interactions.
Fig 1.
Themes and subthemes identified by thematic analysis of role-play (n = 15) discourse.
Fig 2.
Three core consultation stages identified by thematic analysis of role-play (n = 15) discourse.
Veterinarians generally utilised open questions at Stage 1, enquiring how the farmer felt about current issues.
Fig 3.
Veterinarian language illustrating the three consultation stages identified by thematic analysis of role-play (n = 15) discourse.
Language represents all veterinarian questions in the first 20% of consultation time (Role-Play 5).
Fig 4.
Congruence of consultation stages identified by thematic analysis of role-play (n = 15) discourse and Calgary-Cambridge model.
Adapted from [26] for illustrative purposes.