Patient Power and Control

A Study of Women with Uncertain Illness Trajectories

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5454746
AutoresPia Åsbring (Karolinska Institutet), Anna-Liisa Närvänen (Linköping University)
Año2004
Volumen14
Número2
Páginas226-240
Fecha de publicación2004-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732303260682
PMID14768459
OpenAlexW2140045187
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas46

The authors interviewed 12 women diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and 13 with fibromyalgia with the aim of determining the strategies they perceive themselves as using to gain control over their situation during the health care process. The results highlight various strategies that the women report applying to find a way of managing the illness and to influence caregivers. They describe, for example, how they try to gain control over their situation by acquiring knowledge about the illness. The women also describe various power strategies they use in their interaction with the caregivers to take command of their situation, namely exiting, noncompliance, confrontation, persuasion/insistence, making demands, and demonstrative distancing

Disease · Distancing · Fibromyalgia · Health care · Illness behavior · Persuasion · Psychiatry · Sociology of health and illness · Clinical Psychology · Computer Science · Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research · Health, psychology, and well-being · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Social Psychology