Når de sier: Det kan ikke du spise, blir jeg arg - Å leve på den «rette» måten med diabetes type 2
Engelsk titel: I get angry when somebody says that you can’t eat this - Living the “right” way with Type-2 Diabetes
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Författare:
Knutsen, Ingrid Ruud
;
Foss, Christina
Email: ingrid.ruud.knutsen@hioa.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 42
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 18010170
Sammanfattning
Contemporary discourse of health promotion is connected to lifestyle, and type-2 diabetes
is understood as a lifestyle disease closely connected to the individual’s health behaviour.
This study applies an alternative view on individually oriented approaches to life with type2
diabetes. The study aims to explore how people striving with self-management of type-2
diabetes describe their life with the illness and how everyday life influences and frames
their health and follow-up of their illness. To explore patients’ understandings of their
everyday life and their expectations related to type-2 diabetes we applied a discourse analytic
approach. 25 patents diagnosed with type-2 diabetes were interviewed with qualitative
interviews. The findings are related to discourses of health promotion and are organized
under three headlines; moral life, practical life and social life. The findings illustrate how
self-management is influenced by everyday demands and conditions as well as expectations
from the environment. The informants positioned themselves within discourses of
health promotion as self-disciplined but at the same time they saw their life-style condition
as self-inflicted. The findings illuminate how patients with type-2 diabetes are challenged
by the responsibility of living “the right way” and that they are left with the responsibility
for their illness and co-morbidity and complications.