Knowledge, community and care
Digital biocitizenship in gestational diabetes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2250109 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lotte Elton (0000-0003-4621-9131, Department of Population Health Sciences School of Life Course and Population Sciences Kings College London London UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1408-1426 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.13516 |
| PMID | 35972378 |
| OpenAlex | W4291991879 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 47 |
Online patient communities have proliferated rapidly, as has literature exploring the role such communities play in allowing patients to share knowledge, offer support to one another, and advocate for better medical care. Yet there has been limited scholarly engagement with patient community in gestational diabetes (GDM). Drawing on a grounded theory analysis of 18 semi-structured interviews with women with GDM, I explore how participating in an online GDM support community shaped these women's experiences of pregnancy and illness. Women's interactions with one another prompted them to appraise, contest, and co-create knowledge claims about GDM. Those in the community supported each other through the difficulties of GDM, but also held each other accountable to their regimes of self-management, often to a greater extent than their health professionals. The networks of peer support within the community engendered new ethics of care and responsibility, reframing GDM as a condition worthy of more personalised treatment and increased medical attention. These findings attest to the emergence of patient-led biocitizenship in GDM, although a caveat is given that these participants all had access to resources that facilitated their engagement with self-care practices. Further research should explore GDM patient community in marginalised populations
Cognitive reframing · CONTEST · Gestational diabetes · Political science · Pregnancy · Diabetes Management and Education · Gestational Diabetes Research and Management · Maternal and fetal healthcare · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology
Competing realities, uncertain diagnoses of infectious disease
Contemporary visualities of ill health
Social media discourses on prenatal and newborn screening
Utilisation of the internet and support communities on Facebook for gestational diabetes mellitus self-management and empowerment
‘No matter what time of day’
The (un)controlled body
Doing home
Biological Citizenship
Life Exposed
The Logic of Care
Digital health and the biopolitics of the Quantified Self
Governing Sexual Health
Global Assemblages
Accessing support and empowerment online
Feminist Epistemologies
Mothers at Large
Practising childbirth activism
Quantifying the body
What was your blood sugar reading this morning?’ Representing diabetes self-management on Facebook
Online Peer-to-Peer Communities in the Daily Lives of People With Chronic Illness
Between empowerment and self-discipline
Dead by 50
Social Conditions As Fundamental Causes of Disease
Chronic Media Worlds
Candi(e)d Action
Towards a sociology of disease
Producing genetic knowledge and citizenship through the Internet
No one agrees except for those of us who have it
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |