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Communicating effectively with inclusion health populations: 2022 ICCH symposium
Andy Ward1, Leigh Andrews2, Anna Black3
1Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare, Leicester Medical School, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Objective:
To describe communication strategies for clinical practice that allow practitioners to work more effectively with marginalised population groups and to discuss how to incorporate these into medical practice.
Methods:
Active practitioners working in inclusion health and people with lived experience of homelessness and the asylum-seeking process shared their perspectives in the symposium at the 2022 International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH) and a subsequent conference on empathy in healthcare. The views of attendees were sought.
Symposium Discussion:
We describe the perspectives shared at the symposia under two main themes: communication needs in people experiencing homelessness and migrant populations, and trauma-informed practice.
Conclusions:
People experiencing homelessness have more communication challenges compared to the general adult population. Migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking populations also face the complexity of negotiating unfamiliar healthcare, legal and social systems with the added burden of language barriers. Trauma-informed practice provides a useful framework that can improve communication with these groups.
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