Abstract
A nurse student trid to make conversation toward the 57 year old patient with hemiplegia.
A teacher of nursing promoted them to speak each together.
The whole process was tape-recorded and statistically analysed.
The duration of the speech and the silence was measured.
And the rate of the speech or the silence by the total time was calculated.
The product of multiplication of both rates was called as the conversational effect.
The conversational effect was observed as two kinds:
1) effect when the first speaker is nurse student, and 2) effect when the first speaker is patient.
Some tendencies were seen on these effects.
