Responsibility to report symptoms: Pursuing symptom reports from children in pediatric encounters.

Objective: The paper focuses on cases in which children disconfirm a symptom previously reported by their parents and analyzes how doctors and parents continue asking questions to elicit symptom confirmation from children.

Methods: The study employs Conversation Analysis (CA) to examine 50 video recordings of Russian-language pediatric consultations with 4 pediatricians and approximately 50 children.

Results: The findings indicate two strategies used by participants to pursue symptom confirmation.