Papers by Margareta Bohlin
The pediatric diabetes team aims to support health, quality of life, and normal growth and develo... more The pediatric diabetes team aims to support health, quality of life, and normal growth and development among adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM). Adolescents with an immigrant background have been found less successful in self-care. Previous research indicated that adolescents who had integrated the disease as a part of their self-image reasoned differently about their self-care, to those who had not.
Objective: The aim of the present study was to identify elements in the patient-pediatrician consultations that might influence such integration of the disease among adolescents with T1DM.
Methods: Twelve pediatrician –adolescent consultations were video-recorded and analyzed. The adolescents all had an immigrant background.
Results: Integration of the disease appeared enabled when responsibility was shared, when hope, autonomy and emotions were confirmed, and the pediatrician asked probing questions. Letting objective data dominate the adolescent’s experiences, using risk as a motivator, neutralizing emotions in relation to having diabetes, and confirming forgetfulness may instead inhibit disease integration.
Conclusion: An extended person-centered approach with focus on the adolescent’s experiences of everyday-life with a chronic disease and less attention on physical parameters in the pediatrician-adolescent consultations, may increase integration of the disease.
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Papers by Margareta Bohlin
Objective: The aim of the present study was to identify elements in the patient-pediatrician consultations that might influence such integration of the disease among adolescents with T1DM.
Methods: Twelve pediatrician –adolescent consultations were video-recorded and analyzed. The adolescents all had an immigrant background.
Results: Integration of the disease appeared enabled when responsibility was shared, when hope, autonomy and emotions were confirmed, and the pediatrician asked probing questions. Letting objective data dominate the adolescent’s experiences, using risk as a motivator, neutralizing emotions in relation to having diabetes, and confirming forgetfulness may instead inhibit disease integration.
Conclusion: An extended person-centered approach with focus on the adolescent’s experiences of everyday-life with a chronic disease and less attention on physical parameters in the pediatrician-adolescent consultations, may increase integration of the disease.
Objective: The aim of the present study was to identify elements in the patient-pediatrician consultations that might influence such integration of the disease among adolescents with T1DM.
Methods: Twelve pediatrician –adolescent consultations were video-recorded and analyzed. The adolescents all had an immigrant background.
Results: Integration of the disease appeared enabled when responsibility was shared, when hope, autonomy and emotions were confirmed, and the pediatrician asked probing questions. Letting objective data dominate the adolescent’s experiences, using risk as a motivator, neutralizing emotions in relation to having diabetes, and confirming forgetfulness may instead inhibit disease integration.
Conclusion: An extended person-centered approach with focus on the adolescent’s experiences of everyday-life with a chronic disease and less attention on physical parameters in the pediatrician-adolescent consultations, may increase integration of the disease.