Personal details of the patients described in the parallel charts and their influence on the narrative style
| “Core” parallel charts | “Contingent” parallel charts | “Moral” parallel charts | ||||
| Easy | Difficult | Easy | Difficult | Easy | Difficult | |
| Total at the beginning | 65% | 35% | 72% | 28% | 26% | 74% |
| Emotions at first visit | (n=93) | (n=51) | (n=101) | (n=38) | (n=14) | (n=39) |
| Positive | 16% | 6% | 19% | 11% | 29% | 5% |
| “During the visit, the patient appeared to me serene, optimistic and open to an exchange of views” | ||||||
| “The patient is very hopeful and full of trust” | ||||||
| Fear and pain | 57% | 34% | 62% | 29% | 50% | 26% |
| “He told me he was afraid that at 48 he was already a finished man” | ||||||
| “He seemed tired, rigid, not in his usual mood. His way of dressing appeared unkempt, sloppy and a bit messy, not impeccable as usual” | ||||||
| Anger and neglect | 7% | 28% | 5% | 24% | 0% | 59% |
| “The patient, at the beginning of the visit, was serene, because he was convinced he was not ill, but that his problems were normal for smokers and that I would have told him that he was fine” | ||||||
| “He was very aggressive and angry about his disease, and he criticised all the people he was talking about, but he was actually angry with himself” | ||||||
| Submission and shame | 20% | 34% | 16% | 37% | 21% | 10% |
| “There was a certain resignation about him, knowing that he had smoked for years” | ||||||
| “She seemed tired, physically and morally, confused and resigned” | ||||||
| Smoking at first visit | (n=96) | (n=50) | (n=109) | (n=41) | (n=11) | (n=43) |
| Yes | 56% | 84% | 59% | 80% | 55% | 84% |
| Nonsmoker/already quit | 44% | 16% | 41% | 20% | 45% | 16% |