Antecedents and Consequences of Therapeutic Communication in Iranian Nursing Students: A Qualitative Research

Table 2

The major themes of therapeutic communication and its corresponding categories.

Subcategory	Category	Theme
Patient’s patience	Physical readiness	Communication readiness
Nursing students’ power to communicate with patients
Personality characteristics	Developmental readiness
Motivation
Having adequate knowledge	Academic readiness
Having sufficient skill in performing therapeutic communication
Influences of cultural values on communication	Contextual factors	Predisposing factors
Impact of professional rules on communication
The necessity of a suitable educational hospital	Educational condition
Appropriate educational regulations
Patient comfort	Patient satisfaction	Continuity of care
Improving patient’s physical health
Completing nursing students’ assignments	Improving nursing students’ motivation to communicate with patients
Comfortable provision of healthcare due to improved position of nursing students in the society and their increased self-esteem