Health maintenance, meaning, and disrupted illness trajectories in people with low back pain

A Qualitative Study

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3634804
AutoresTom Sanders (0000-0002-9163-2964, University of Sheffield, autor correspondente), Bie Nio Ong (0000-0001-8138-8139, University of Sheffield), Diane Roberts (0000-0003-0264-921X, University of Manchester), Mandy Corbett (University of Sheffield)
Ano2015
Volume24
Fascículo1
Páginas1-14
Data de publicação2015-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHealth Sociology Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1446-1242 • E-ISSN: 1839-3551
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14461242.2014.999399
OpenAlexW2113492673
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas27

The relationship of parents and infants is ruptured at birth in the context of urgent issues such as congenital heart defects. The infants referred to in 10 semi-structured interviews had undergone cardiac surgery in a children's hospital in Australia and were participating in a new programme known as Heart Beads instigated by the cardiac ward nurses. Within the biomedical context infants are often alienated from their parents and treated as isolated bodies. The paper discusses the social implications of an ill or deformed child and the role of narrative in addressing social demands and the problems faced by parents in infant intensive care contexts. It is argued that theorising the infant within a relational framework allows agency to be attributed to the infant and parents while also recognising the importance of the intimate social world and interactional context that it is expressed within. The paper draws on Nick Crossley's relational sociology to highlight the importance of the relational embodiment that encompasses infants within a social world preceding them and enveloping them. The narrative is developed by parents in order to facilitate the social expression and integration of their child and thus plays a particularly social role in the context of infant surgery, rather than serving to adjust the individual to new circumstances. Exploring the role of narrative in this social relational sense is important for bringing the mother and the family back into the context and survival of the infant both physically and socially.Keywords: agencynarrativeinfantcongenital cardiac conditionrelational sociology

Agency (philosophy · Alternative medicine · Chronic pain · Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Disease · Low back pain · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Pain relief · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Qualitative research · Social environment · Social science · Sociology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child and Adolescent Health · Computer Science · Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research · Gender Studies · Health, psychology, and well-being · Medicine · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation · Psychology · Social Psychology