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Living with deterio...
Living with deteriorating and hereditary disease : experiences over ten years of persons with muscular dystrophy and their next of kin
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- Boström, Katrin, 1955- (författare)
- Örebro universitet,Institutionen för vårdvetenskap och omsorg
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Ahlström, Gerd (preses)
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- Danermark, Berth, Professor (preses)
- Örebro universitet,Hälsovetenskapliga institutionen
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- Möller, Anders, Professor (opponent)
- Nordiska hälsovårdshögskolan, Göteborg
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- ISBN 917668427X
- Örebro : Örebro universitetsbibliotek, 2005
- Engelska 88 s.
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Serie: Studies from The Swedish Institute for Disability Research, 1650-1128 ; 15
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Abstract
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- The overall aim of this thesis was to elucidate haw persona with muscular dystrophy (MD) and their next of kin experience and describe their daily lives over the last ten years. MD is a group of inherited disorders characterised by muscular weakness caused by muscle wasting. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used. Forty-isx individuals with MD and 36 next of kin were interviewed (Studies I, III, IV). Both groups completed the questionnaire Subjective Quality of Life (SQoL), (Study V). Persons with MD also completed the questionnaires Sickness Impact Profile and Self-report ADL (Study II). The interviews were subjected to qualitative content analysis. The persons with MD described the change from being independent to being an individual in need of assistive devices and/or personal support to manage activities of every day life (StudyI). Besides muscular weakness persons with MD have hte strain it means to have a hereditary disease, which also affects the family (Study III). The deterioration during a decennium was primarily with regard to ambulation. The number of persons walking without assistive devices has decreased from 40 to 23 and that of those working has almost been halved, from 21 to 11 (Study II). Next of kin have a special vulnerability in form of an emotional and practical lonliness in addition to actual and anticipatory losses. The relationship was described as related to obligation and/or love. To have an orientation towards tasks (obligation) was linked to a feeling of being weighed down by demands, while having an orientation towards relationship (love) was linked to a feeling of quality in life (Study IV). The persons with MD scored lower on most items in the SQoL than the next of kin (Study V). Patients without a partner scored lower on QoL as a whole than those with a partner. Those with an early onset of disease scored lower on personal economy. Next of kin who gave daily help assessed their relationships to friends lower than those who gave weekly help (Study V). This thesis provides knowledge of the trajectory with MD over time on the basis of a ten-year follow up. It also broadens the knowledge of how the hereditary aspect is experienced both by those with MD and their next of kin. How the next of kin of adult persons with MD experience their situation is an issue that has been overlooked in previous research.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi -- Socialt arbete (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology -- Social Work (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Social sciences
- muscular dystrophy
- chronic disease
- ten year follow up
- next of kin
- ICF
- activity
- sickness impact
- hereditary aspects
- illness related problems
- quality of life
- multimethod
- content analysis
- SOCIAL SCIENCES
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
- Disability research
- Handikappsforskning
- Handikappvetenskap
- Disability Science
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