Thesis (Ph.D. in Nursing) -- University of Colorado, 2006. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-185). Free to UCDHSC affiliates. Online version available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations;

A tuberculose multirresistente (TBMR) - resistência simultânea a rifampicina e isoniazida, principais fármacos do esquema de tratamento da tuberculose (TB), gera mais ônus aos doentes e aos Serviços de Saúde, pois acarreta maiores custos, aumenta o tempo de tratamento e relaciona-se a prognósticos desfavoráveis. A TBMR ocorre devido à falha em algum princípio do tratamento, seja por parte dos profissionais e serviços de saúde, seja por questões ligadas ao doente. Frente a isso, o presente estudo objetivou identificar e analisar as condições de produção da TBMR relacionadas ao doente e seu entorno. Esta investigação foi realizada junto aos sujeitos em seguimento em um hospital de referência do interior paulista, entre janeiro de 2010 a janeiro de 2012. Foi utilizada a abordagem qualitativa. Por meio da análise dos prontuários médicos do serviço terciário, caracterizamos o universo do estudo - composto por todos os doentes já seguidos pela instituição, descrevendo e analisando dados sociodemográficos e clínicos correspondentes. Caracterizamos, também, a amostra estudada, formada por oito doentes de TBMR em seguimento, detalhando seu contexto de vida e trajetória com a doença, assim como a estruturação municipal para seu acompanhamento. A segunda etapa do trabalho constituiu na análise das percepções dos sujeitos a cerca do adoecimento por TB e pela forma MR. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, gravadas e transcritas na íntegra. Os textos resultantes constituíram o corpus do estudo, organizado com recurso do software Atlas. Ti versão 7.0 e analisado sob o referencial teórico da Análise de Discurso, de matriz francesa. Os resultados da investigação baseiam-se na análise de três aspectos: percurso diagnóstico - em que é apontadas a percepção da doença e dos sintomas, as histórias pessoais e familiares do adoecimento por TB, o desenvolver até a obtenção do diagnóstico e as histórias de fracasso dos tratamentos convencionais; tratamento e acompanhamento dos casos MR - momento em que são discutidas questões ligadas a percepção do tratamento pelos doentes, as modalidades de supervisão empreendidas, os instrumentos e insumos fornecidos, além do apoio da rede familiar; coordenação da assistência - em que são analisadas as nuances da relação entre os diferentes serviços envolvidos na atenção ao doente, tanto dentro do mesmo nível assistencial quanto em sua intersecção com a atenção terciária, a fim de compreender suas fragilidades e promover as potencialidades para o tratamento dos sujeitos. Essas condições de produção mostraram-se complexas, ao passo que sofrem influência das peculiaridades da forma como os serviços locais de atenção organizando-se para atender esses doentes, além de questões relacionadas à trajetória de vida e doença desses sujeitos, apontando para a necessidade de ampliação do espaço de negociação dentro do sistema de saúde. / Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis - simultaneous resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid, the main drugs in the treatment for tuberculosis (TB), generates more onuses to patients and Health Services because it involves higher costs, increases the treatment time and relates to the unfavorable outcomes. MDR-TB occurs due to failure in some treatment principles, either by professionals and health services, or by patient issues. Concerning this, the present study aimed to identify and analyze the conditions of MDR-TB production related to the patients and their surroundings. This investigation was conducted with the subjects followed up in a referral hospital in São Paulo State, between January 2010 and January 2012. It was used a qualitative approach. By analyzing the medical records of the tertiary service, we characterized the universe of the study - consisting of all patients who were already followed by the institution, describing and analyzing the demographic and clinical data matching. We also characterized the sample, formed by eight MDR-TB patients in follow-up, detailing the context of their lives and the disease trajectory, as well as the municipal structure to monitor them. The second stage of the work consisted of analyzing the subjects\' perceptions about TB development and MR strain. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews which were recorded and fully transcribed. The resulting texts constituted the corpus of the study, organized using the Atlas.Ti software version 7.0 and analyzed from the theoretical framework of Discourse Analysis of French matrix. The results are based on analysis of three aspects: The first is diagnosis route - which shows the disease and symptoms perception of the patient, personal and family histories of TB development, the disease development until the diagnosis, and the failed conventional treatment stories. The second aspect was treatment and monitoring of MDR cases - when cases are discussed we focused on the following aspects: perceptions of treatment by patients, undertaken methods of supervision, instruments and inputs provided, and the familiar support network. The third is assistance coordination - where the nuances of the relationship between several departments involved in the patient care are analyzed, within the same care level as well as its intersection with tertiary care in order to understand their weaknesses and promote the potential treatments for the subjects. These production conditions proved to be complex whereas the local care services peculiarities influence the way they are organized to assist these patients, as well as aspects related to life and illness trajectory of these subjects, indicating the need of expanding the negotiation space within the health system

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karolinska institutet, 2006. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

A tuberculose multirresistente (TBMR) - resistência simultânea a rifampicina e isoniazida, principais fármacos do esquema de tratamento da tuberculose (TB), gera mais ônus aos doentes e aos Serviços de Saúde, pois acarreta maiores custos, aumenta o tempo de tratamento e relaciona-se a prognósticos desfavoráveis. A TBMR ocorre devido à falha em algum princípio do tratamento, seja por parte dos profissionais e serviços de saúde, seja por questões ligadas ao doente. Frente a isso, o presente estudo objetivou identificar e analisar as condições de produção da TBMR relacionadas ao doente e seu entorno. Esta investigação foi realizada junto aos sujeitos em seguimento em um hospital de referência do interior paulista, entre janeiro de 2010 a janeiro de 2012. Foi utilizada a abordagem qualitativa. Por meio da análise dos prontuários médicos do serviço terciário, caracterizamos o universo do estudo - composto por todos os doentes já seguidos pela instituição, descrevendo e analisando dados sociodemográficos e clínicos correspondentes. Caracterizamos, também, a amostra estudada, formada por oito doentes de TBMR em seguimento, detalhando seu contexto de vida e trajetória com a doença, assim como a estruturação municipal para seu acompanhamento. A segunda etapa do trabalho constituiu na análise das percepções dos sujeitos a cerca do adoecimento por TB e pela forma MR. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, gravadas e transcritas na íntegra. Os textos resultantes constituíram o corpus do estudo, organizado com recurso do software Atlas. Ti versão 7.0 e analisado sob o referencial teórico da Análise de Discurso, de matriz francesa. Os resultados da investigação baseiam-se na análise de três aspectos: percurso diagnóstico - em que é apontadas a percepção da doença e dos sintomas, as histórias pessoais e familiares do adoecimento por TB, o desenvolver até a obtenção do diagnóstico e as histórias de fracasso dos tratamentos convencionais; tratamento e acompanhamento dos casos MR - momento em que são discutidas questões ligadas a percepção do tratamento pelos doentes, as modalidades de supervisão empreendidas, os instrumentos e insumos fornecidos, além do apoio da rede familiar; coordenação da assistência - em que são analisadas as nuances da relação entre os diferentes serviços envolvidos na atenção ao doente, tanto dentro do mesmo nível assistencial quanto em sua intersecção com a atenção terciária, a fim de compreender suas fragilidades e promover as potencialidades para o tratamento dos sujeitos. Essas condições de produção mostraram-se complexas, ao passo que sofrem influência das peculiaridades da forma como os serviços locais de atenção organizando-se para atender esses doentes, além de questões relacionadas à trajetória de vida e doença desses sujeitos, apontando para a necessidade de ampliação do espaço de negociação dentro do sistema de saúde. / Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis - simultaneous resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid, the main drugs in the treatment for tuberculosis (TB), generates more onuses to patients and Health Services because it involves higher costs, increases the treatment time and relates to the unfavorable outcomes. MDR-TB occurs due to failure in some treatment principles, either by professionals and health services, or by patient issues. Concerning this, the present study aimed to identify and analyze the conditions of MDR-TB production related to the patients and their surroundings. This investigation was conducted with the subjects followed up in a referral hospital in São Paulo State, between January 2010 and January 2012. It was used a qualitative approach. By analyzing the medical records of the tertiary service, we characterized the universe of the study - consisting of all patients who were already followed by the institution, describing and analyzing the demographic and clinical data matching. We also characterized the sample, formed by eight MDR-TB patients in follow-up, detailing the context of their lives and the disease trajectory, as well as the municipal structure to monitor them. The second stage of the work consisted of analyzing the subjects\' perceptions about TB development and MR strain. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews which were recorded and fully transcribed. The resulting texts constituted the corpus of the study, organized using the Atlas.Ti software version 7.0 and analyzed from the theoretical framework of Discourse Analysis of French matrix. The results are based on analysis of three aspects: The first is diagnosis route - which shows the disease and symptoms perception of the patient, personal and family histories of TB development, the disease development until the diagnosis, and the failed conventional treatment stories. The second aspect was treatment and monitoring of MDR cases - when cases are discussed we focused on the following aspects: perceptions of treatment by patients, undertaken methods of supervision, instruments and inputs provided, and the familiar support network. The third is assistance coordination - where the nuances of the relationship between several departments involved in the patient care are analyzed, within the same care level as well as its intersection with tertiary care in order to understand their weaknesses and promote the potential treatments for the subjects. These production conditions proved to be complex whereas the local care services peculiarities influence the way they are organized to assist these patients, as well as aspects related to life and illness trajectory of these subjects, indicating the need of expanding the negotiation space within the health system

In this dissertation, the author provides an account of his therapeutic interaction and experience, as an intern clinical psychologist, in working with a patient in psychotherapy who was eventually diagnosed with a “factitious disorder”. This study descriptively addresses how the therapeutic interaction impacted upon the therapist’s thinking of the process both diagnostically and in terms of therapeutic goals. This study consists of a single case, qualitative research design. It concerns the interactions and experiences of the therapist with a specific patient (diagnosed with a factitious disorder) in the context of a multidisciplinary academic hospital setting. The study aims to be predominantly descriptive of this therapy, and as such employs the psychological phenomenological method of Giorgi (1985) in order to provide a specific description of the situated structure of the therapy. As such, this study is able to contribute to the sparse psychological and therapeutic information available on factitious disorders. There are few detailed accounts of actual therapeutic interactions – specifically from a psychological perspective – for patients diagnosed with factitious disorders. The specific description of the situated structure of the therapy is also compared to the available literature on factitious disorders. Although the aim of this study was not evaluative in nature, the author does provide some tentative comments on the aetiology and therapeutic considerations for factitious disorders – with regards to this particular case. The author suggests a strong link to personality and character deficits underlying factitious behaviour. The author further suggests the importance of acknowledging the “sick role”; allowing for “face-saving” strategies; providing consistency (on behalf of the therapist); and the setting of rigid, overt, therapeutic boundaries in the psychotherapeutic treatment of factitious disorders. / Dissertation (MA (Clinical Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Psychology / unrestricted

<p>Labelling Theory stipulates that once an individual exhibits deviant behaviour, such as acting outside of the norm, the public and even close relatives will react to this behaviour by labelling it. Some of these labels result in social and psychological consequences for the individual, and Labelling theorists argue that, at the very extreme, they culminate in a self-fulfilling prophecy wherein the labelled individual fulfills the expectations others have placed upon him/her. Labelling Theory has been questioned for its lack of consistent supporting empirical evidence and still faces much scrutiny by leaving many unanswered questions, particularly within educational contexts. Several societal changes have created a profoundly different climate for labelling in the domains of mental health and education and beg the re-evaluation of labelling theory’s original arguments.</p> <p>This dissertation empirically tests the main tenets of Labelling Theory within an educational setting by exploring the experiences of children identified as having symptoms of Developmental Coordination Disorder in aNorthern Ontariocity. This study finds that children who are yet undiagnosed with DCD are often stigmatized not only by their peers, but also by educators, public, and even close relatives. However, those children who were formally labelled were granted more opportunities and were often more accommodated within the educational context. It also finds that formally labelled children often had varying degrees of self-confidence; conversely, those who were not labelled or awaiting diagnosis were often more critical of their abilities and were frequently socially isolated. Finally, this study found that parents played an active role in acquiring formal labels and services for their children throughout the diagnostic process and afterwards. These findings have implications for educational and health care related policies and future research for Labelling Theory.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Although Talcott Parsons’s sick role theory, as described in 1951 in The Social System, has been severely criticized for its inapplicability to chronic illnesses, a portion of the theory is still a relevant and necessary factor in terms of understanding and treating chronic illness today. Using data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey, this study looks at the individual effects of sex, age, race, cohabitation, education and region of residence on the likelihood of chronically ill patients considering themselves limited in their amount or kind of work as an indicator of sick role adaptation. Results show statistically significant relationships between work limitation and sex, age, cohabitation, education and region of residence, when controlling for the duration of the respondents’ condition. Further evaluation of these results is provided.

It has been well established, in the literature, the association between low health literacy rates and poor health outcomes. With the increase of technology dependence, more people are using the internet to look up health information. Research has shown that shared decision making between providers and patients can improve patients' health outcomes. This research aims to examine whether electronic health (eHealth) literacy impacts patient-provider relationships. This research will also examine how geography specifically state residency impacts eHealth literacy rates. Data collected from a national sampling of online health and medical information users who participated in the Study of Health and Medical Information in Cyberspace (N=710) is used to construct structural equation models from SPSS AMOS v. 20.0. After path analysis, the results shown that white males with higher education were more likely to have higher eHealth literacy rates and that eHealth literacy rates are associated with better self-care, higher patient satisfaction and increased trust in provider. Also, state residency does not have an impact on eHealth literacy rates. eHealth literacy will be significant in patient-provider relationships. Program development should be established on focusing on eHealth literacy across the lifespan. Also, it will be important to review federal policy on technology disbursements in order to achieve national goals on eHealth literacy rates.

Desde o advento da terapia anti-retroviral e de sua distribuição gratuita pelo governo brasileiro, milhares de pessoas se tratam e vivem com aids no Brasil. A crescente sobrevida, o tratamento anti-retroviral e o monitoramento da doença através dos exames de CD4 e carga viral tornaram a aids, de acordo com definições biomédicas, uma doença crônica. Esta dissertação busca compreender a experiência da doença das pessoas que vivem com aids neste novo contexto crônico, e discutir as permanências e mudanças ocorridas, após dez anos do início da distribuição gratuita da terapia tripla potente (HAART). Trata-se de uma pesquisa de análise qualitativa de trinta e duas entrevistas semi-estruturadas com pacientes de aids do Estado de São Paulo, realizadas em dois momentos distintos da história da epidemia, 1999 e 2005, que abarcam situações vividas logo após a introdução do coquetel e, posteriormente, com mais tempo de experiência da enfermidade. Seis aspectos da experiência de viver com aids foram analisados: as relações interpessoais e afetivas; as relações ocupacionais; a relação com a biomedicina (anti-retrovirais, exames e médico-paciente); percepção corporal; representações do vírus, do tratamento e da doença; e o conhecimento acerca da doença. Concluiu-se que apesar da definição biomédica da aids como doença crônica, há importantes aspectos vividos pelos pacientes que reeditam dificuldades semelhantes ao início da epidemia, mesmo após anos de vivência com a doença. A vivência da enfermidade crônica é abordada e discutida sob a perspectiva de \"pacientes-sujeitos\", em contraposição à idéia do \"pacienteprofissional\". O maior conhecimento das características destes dois tempos - de aids aguda e de aids crônica - que convivem simultaneamente é de extrema relevância no tratamento dos pacientes crônicos e pode contribuir para pensarmos transformações em termos do cuidado que sejam sensíveis a esta realidade híbrida / The Brazilian government has been providing free and universal access to the HAART therapy for people living with HIV and AIDS for almost ten years. Since then, many epidemiological characteristics have changed, and AIDS became scientifically and medically known as a chronic disease. This qualitative study aims to comprehend the illness experience of people living with AIDS in this new context, and to discuss the challenges occurred during this period. With this purpose, it was held 32 semi-structured interviews with AIDS patients in Sao Paulo State, in 1999 and 2005. Six dimensions of the illness experience were distinguished: (1) interpersonal relationships; (2) occupation activities; (3) the relation with the biomedicine (through out the use of anti-retroviral, CD4 and viral load tests and doctor-patient relationship); (4) body perception; (5) virus and treatment representations and (6) knowledge about the disease. From de data analysis was concluded that even with the new achievements of AIDS becoming a chronic disease in biomedical terms, there are still important aspects lived by the patients that reedit similar fears and difficulties from the first periods of the epidemic. Improving knowledge about the coexistence of these two different times -the acute AIDS and the chronic AIDS- can contribute to think new alternatives of care concerning the services delivery for people living with HIV and AIDS

This thesis studies how sick leave legitimacy is managed in interaction and develops an empirically driven conceptualization of ‘legitimacy work’. The thesis applies an ethnomethodological framework that draws on conversation analysis, discursive psychology, and membership categorization analysis. Naturally occurring interaction is examined in two settings: (1) multi-party meetings at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, in which participants assess and discuss the ‘status’ of the sick leave and plan for work rehabilitation; (2) peer-based online text-in-interaction in a Swedish forum thread that gathers people on sick leave. The thesis shows how mental states, activities and alternative categories function as resources for legitimacy work. However, such invocations are no straight-forward matter, but impose additional contingencies. It is thus crucial how they are invoked. By detailed analyses of the interaction, with attention to aspects such as lexicality and delivery, the thesis identifies a range of discursive features that manage sick leave legitimacy. Deployed resources are also subtle enough to be deniable as legitimacy work, that is, they also manage the risk of an utterance being seen as invested or biased. While legitimate sick leave is a core concern for Swedish policy-making, administration, and public debate on sick leave, previous research has for the most part been explanatory in orientation, minding legitimacy rather than studying it in its own right. By providing detailed knowledge about the legitimacy work that people on long-term sick leave do as part of both institutional and mundane encounters, the thesis contributes not only new empirical knowledge, but a new kind of empirical knowledge, shedding light on how the complexities of sick leave play out in real-life situations. Traditional sociological approaches have to a significant extent treated legitimacy as an entity with beginnings and ends that in more or less direct ways relate to external norms and cognitive states, or that focus on institutions, authority or government. By contrast, the herein emerging concept ‘legitimacy work’ understands legitimacy as a locally contingent practicality – a collaborative categorially oriented accomplishment that is integral to the interactional situation.