Eastern time focus
Explanation:
Eastern time focus is a term associated with therapeutic communication.
Many religious, cultural, and ethnic factors plays an important role in therapeutic communication and influences the time focus and expectations in care. Based on this, the medical care knowledge or background, caregiving structure, communication traits, and the time focus alters.
The eastern time focus including the Asian culture like Indian, Chinese, Filipino,Korean, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese etc are oriented to present and past time focus.
Their medical care background is mostly holistic with a mixture of Western principles and Confucian principles, they cater to their family members and consider their opinions, and have high context indirect communication traits with low eye contact and hence they go with present and past time focus.
