Shedding new light on the (in)compatibility of chronic disease management with everyday life - social practice theory, mobile technologies and the interwoven time-spaces of teenage life

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2249588
AutoresTim Harries (0000-0002-9740-3425, Kingston Business School Kingston University London Kingston‐upon‐Thames UK, autor de correspondencia), Ruth Rettie (0000-0002-2799-5947, Kingston Business School Kingston University London Kingston‐upon‐Thames UK), Jonathan Gabe (0000-0002-3765-4935, School of Law and Social Science Royal Holloway University of London London UK)
Año2019
Volumen41
Número7
Páginas1396-1409
Fecha de publicación2019-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.12952
PMID31124176
OpenAlexW2944950510
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas52

This article uses a socio-material approach, social practice theory, to provide new insights into the self-management of chronic illness. It demonstrates how this theory can bridge arguments about the respective roles of social and individual influences, and how it can foreground an oft-overlooked aspect of the issue - the demands of self-care technologies and consequences for participation in social life. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with 25 young type-1 diabetes outpatients in London, UK, the study points to the conflicts that occur when disease management technologies compete for time and space with the social practices of everyday life, and when self-care tasks threaten to interrupt the flow of social life and make people feel 'left behind'. The paper concludes that young people are disabled by the contingent position of self-care activities in daily life, which oblige them to compromise either their physical health or their immersion in the social world. This disabling effect would be mitigated if social practices were reorganised to make them more amenable to the time-space requirements of disease management. A social practice theory lens can help throw light onto this issue and make a valuable contribution to the study of the self-management of chronic illness

Everyday life · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Diabetes Management and Education · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Social Psychology