Tensions in compliance for renal patients – how renal discussion groups conceive knowledge and safe care

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7787781
AutoresNatalya Godbold (University of Technology Sydney, autor correspondente), Natalya Jane Godbold
Ano2013
Volume22
Fascículo1
Páginas52-64
Data de publicação2013-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHealth Sociology Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1446-1242 • E-ISSN: 1839-3551
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.5172/hesr.2013.22.1.52
OpenAlexW2034936009
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas25

Much of the medical literature on patient compliance explores why patients fail to follow practitioners’ instructions. This paper explores perspectives on ‘compliance’ expressed in online discussion groups for kidney patients. Discourse analysis was used to investigate how contributors conceptualise knowledge and the role of the renal patient. In the discussion groups, patients were sometimes seen to have better understanding of the details of their illness than some practitioners, a focus born of inhabiting their situation and therefore having more at stake. Some patients set themselves the task of supervising their own care, double checking the work of practitioners. This did not threaten biomedical knowledge, but these counter-discourses challenge professional boundaries by making it the prerogative of patients to obtain biomedical knowledge. I explore issues of surveillance and frustration, and the potential usefulness of patients’ overseeing their own safety, while flagging the potential plight of less ‘empowered’ or motivated patients

Flagging · Focus group · Medical education · Political science · Prerogative · Project commissioning · Public relations · Publishing · Sociology · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Social Psychology