Phenomenology and its application in medicine

Carel, Havi

doi:10.1007/s11017-010-9161-x

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“…15,16 Rather than objectively measuring and controlling their experiences, phenomenology examines what is perceived by the individuals, acknowledging that there may be a variety of perspectives and interpretations. It takes into account the relationship between an individual's consciousness and the phenomenon, 17 recognizing how the different experiences of each individual contributes to a reality that is based on multiple perspectives. 18 A phenomenological approach evaluates the body as lived by the patient, where illness is experienced from within and affects all aspects of life.…”

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Lifestyle Implications of Home Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation for Children With Neuromuscular Disease and Their Families

Moran¹,

Spittle

Delany

2014

Respir Care

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BACKGROUND: Mechanical insufflation-exsufflation (MI-E) is increasingly used in the home management of children with neuromuscular disease. Research to date has focused on the effect of MI-E on physical health. The aim of this study was to qualitatively investigate the impact of home MI-E on the child and family's lifestyle. METHODS: Eight parents and 3 children participated in semistructured interviews. RESULTS: Five themes emerged from parent interviews demonstrating: (1) lifestyle implications, (2) parents becoming experts, (3) parents developing a sense of control over their child's condition, (4) an element of extra care, and (5) impacts on the parent-child relationship. Developing themes from the child interviews showed them adjusting to and then relying on the device. Home MI-E medicalized the home, but the overall lifestyle impact was positive. CONCLUSIONS: Although involving a small number of subjects, this study demonstrated a mixture of opposing impacts of home MI-E on lifestyle, both enabling and disabling, which need to be considered when introducing home MI-E. The positive impacts included greater ability to manage the child's health, including avoidance of hospital admissions. Negative impacts were greatest for those parents who were sole operators of the device, including a frequently disrupted lifestyle.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Lifestyle Implications of Home Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation for Children With Neuromuscular Disease and Their Families

Moran¹,

Spittle

Delany

2014

Respir Care

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“…From a phenomenological perspective, however, the body cannot be viewed exclusively as an object of ownership and control, but is rather a gateway to the world for the purpose of sensibility, which has proven itself independent of cognitive reflection. The concept of the "lived body," which is greatly emphasised in phenomenology for its experience of the self (Carel 2011;Folkmarson Käll and Zeiler 2014), is knowingly manipulated and denied by agencies in the practice of surrogacy. Here mothers are prevented from bonding with the child during pregnancy, as this could potentially lead to the refusal to handover the child to the contracted parents and consequently result in a breach of contract-such as in the case of Baby M.…”

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Caring Relationships: Commercial Surrogacy and the Ethical Relevance of the Other

Krause

2017

Care in Healthcare

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“…Understanding the phenomena of health and illness in all their richness and complexity can be of enormous practical value to healthcare professionals in improving doctor-patient interactional processes (see for example, Denford et al 2013). Furthermore, combining 'objective' health parameters, such as spirometry results, with patients' accounts of their lived experience of wellbeing, provides healthcare professionals with important information (Carel 2011), particularly as empirical evidence shows that 'objective' assessments of health and wellbeing are poor predictors of subjective wellbeing (Angner 2009, 508). Eliciting accounts of the direct experience of asthma as lived in the body can help health professionals understand, for example, why people may not always undertake prescribed exercise and/or other treatment in the ways (or indeed at all) they are advised.…”

Section: Sociological Phenomenology and Lived Illness Experiencementioning

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Opening up dialogues and airways: using vignettes to enrich asthma understandings in sport and exercise

Allen‐Collinson

Owton

Crust

2016

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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2 | P a g e 3 | P a g e Opening up dialogues and airways: using vignettes to enrich asthma understandings in exercise participantsThis article explores the lived experience of asthma in a specific population of sport and exercise participants, drawing on an approach currently under-utilised in studies of asthma: vignettes. These were used as an elicitation technique in research with19 frequent exercisers and sports participants with asthma, eight of whom responded to vignettes. We describe and evaluate this approach as deployed in relation to a phenomenological study of the lived experience of asthma, and consider how employing vignette-based research can encourage people with asthma to reflect critically on their experiences and ways of being-inthe-world. This was found to be a powerful way of challenging taken-for-granted assumptions, and stimulating consideration of behaviour change. The findings we report here cohere around two principal themes that emerged as salient: 1) somatic empathy; and 2) the power of sharing stories and opening up dialogues.Understanding the complexity of asthma experiences can, we argue, be of great practical value both to those with asthma and also to healthcare and exercise professionals in tailoring more effective treatments.

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Phenomenology and its application in medicine

Cited by 174 publications

References 28 publications

Lifestyle Implications of Home Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation for Children With Neuromuscular Disease and Their Families

Lifestyle Implications of Home Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation for Children With Neuromuscular Disease and Their Families

Caring Relationships: Commercial Surrogacy and the Ethical Relevance of the Other

Opening up dialogues and airways: using vignettes to enrich asthma understandings in sport and exercise

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