Cheer* in Health Care Practice

What It Excludes and Why It Matters

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4635694
AutoresJenny Setchell (0000-0002-1946-4492, Bloorview Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, autor correspondente), Thomas Abrams (0000-0002-3908-4446, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada), Laura C Mcadam (Bloorview Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Laura Mcadam (0000-0002-4650-7232, University of Toronto), Barbara E Gibson (0000-0003-0429-8679, Bloorview Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Ano2019
Volume29
Fascículo13
Páginas1890-1903
Data de publicação2019-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732319838235
PMID30957656
OpenAlexW2935938186
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas37

Clinicians' positive demeanor and "strengths based" focus can include working to create a cheerful atmosphere in health care environments, cheering for improvements in assessment outcomes, and cheering up clients in situations of decline. Drawing from philosopher Karen Barad's theories of inclusions and exclusions, we investigated what comes to matter (and what is excluded from mattering) when there is cheerfulness, cheering, and so forth (cheer*) in the day-to-day practices of a neuromuscular clinic. We worked collaboratively with clinicians, young people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and their families to co-examine the clinic in three iterative exploratory method spaces: (a) group "dialogues" with clinicians; (b) consultative interviews with children, families, and clinicians; and (c) transdisciplinary research team analysis sessions. Cheer* made some things matter in the clinic ("normal" physical function, "positive" emotions, test scores, compliance); and excluded others (grief and loss, "non-normative" bodies and lives, alternative practices, embodied knowledge). We discuss implications across health care settings

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