مورد إلكتروني
A female lay perspective on health, disease, and sickness absence
| العنوان: | A female lay perspective on health, disease, and sickness absence |
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| بيانات النشر: | Linköpings universitet, Socialmedicin och folkhälsovetenskap Linköpings universitet, Hälsouniversitetet Linköping : Linköpings universitet 2001 |
| تفاصيل مُضافة: | Ockander, Marlene |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | Background: Knowledge about a female perspective on health and disease is important to understand what happens in e.g. the medical meeting. A deeper understanding for the phenomenon of health also has social and economic importance. In Sweden women account for about 60% of the long-term cases of sickness absence. Aim: To explore and describe women's perceptions of health and disease and their accounts of sickness absence. Methods: The chronic diseases mentioned by elderly women in an interview study are compared with those documented in their respective medical records (n=199). The prevalence of positive diagnoses, overall agreement, and the kappa-coefficient were calculated for each group of diagnoses. Semi-stmctnred interviews were conducted with 82 women who had been on sick leave (60 days or more) or who had disability pension. Sixty of these middle-aged women also carried out a Q-sort. Results: The lowest overall agreement between the elderly women report during interviews and their medical records was observed for psychiatric diseases, followed by diseases of the gastrointestinal system. Poor chance-adjusted agreement was found concerning diseases of the gastrointestinal system and diseases of the skin (Paper I). Long-term sickness absence can be said to arise in three distinguishable "spaces": the workspace, the medical-legal space, and the mental space. In the beginning, the women were positive about sick leave as such, which they saw as an opportunity for physical rest. But as time went on, they came to regard sick leave as creating a vicious circle of new problems related to inactivity and isolation. Apart from this vicious circle and chronic physical impairments, certain conditions at the workplace, at the hospital, and the social insurance office transformed seemingly trivial sick leaves into long-term and irreversible sickness absences (Paper II). The women's accounts of being sickness absent contained interpretations of what had happened to them, how t |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | sickness absence, sick leave, women, lay explanation models, phenomenology, interview, Q-methodology, account, health, vital goal, life plan, sense of coherence, prevention, rehabilitation, diagnosis, medical records, patients, medical decision making, Medical and Health Sciences, Medicin och hälsovetenskap, Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, text |
| URL: | Linköping University Medical Dissertations, 0345-0082 ; 699 |
| الإتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
| ملاحظة: | English |
| أرقام أخرى: | UPE oai:DiVA.org:liu-28617 urn:isbn:91-7373-141-2 Local 13773 1233971446 |
| المصدر المساهم: | UPPSALA UNIV LIBR From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsoai.on1233971446 |
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