Patient Attitudes towards Physician Nonverbal Behaviors during Consultancy: Result from a Developing Country

Table 4

Expectations and perceptions of patients regarding eye contact (𝑛=120).

S. no.	Statements	𝑁	%
1	Duration of eye contact
	Should be throughout consultation	24	20
	Should be brief but regular	65	54.1
	Should be more at beginning less in the end	26	21.7
	Should be more at the end less in the beginning	3	2.5
	When talking about symptoms	2	1.7
2	Feeling when a doctor makes an eye contact
	Confidence in myself	11	9.2
	Confidence in communication	55	45.8
	Secure	16	13.3
	Attended	107	86.1
	It is a bad behavior by a doctor	1	0.8
3	Acts/objects which make uncomfortable during eye contact
	Long stare	44	36.7
	Smiling eyes	8	6.7
	Frequent blinking	13	10.8
	Roaming eyes	2	1.7
	Items in the surrounding	23	19.1
	None	20	16.6

Redundant categories have been removed.