The influence of personal communities on the self-management of medication taking: A wider exploration of medicine work

Cheraghi-Sohi, Sudeh; Jeffries, Mark; Stevenson, Fiona; Ashcroft, Darren M.; Carr, Matthew; Oliver, Kathryn; Rogers, Anne

doi:10.1177/1742395314537841

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“…articulation work through providing the device) and encouragement to 'keep monitoring' and to 'just keep an eye on it' (i.e. emotional work, through encouraging the continued practice) (Cheraghi-Sohi et al 2015) here might be seen as expressions of maternal care, and are in line with long-standing sociological ideas about the gendered aspects of family health work. In another interview a young woman recounted that her husband had bought a monitor for her in part to persuade her to take her blood pressure seriously.…”

Section: Procuring and Providing Devicesmentioning

confidence: 67%

“…In this case the device does not bring with it a set of health professionals making new connections between clinics and homes. Nevertheless as with technologies provided by the clinic, the use of this consumer health device may rely on family members who undertook articulation, emotional and informational work (Cheraghi-Sohi et al 2015) by gifting, buying or lending monitors and providing encouragement and support for their use. One aspect that emerges in our research which has previously been less in focus is the potential for personal networks to discourage monitoring.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Where Langstrup (2013) discusses the way different householders' values and priorities may come into tension in the management of asthma, we suggest that family members may discourage monitoring for fear that it will bring about anxiety or over-involvement with health. This might be seen as a form of emotional work (Cheraghi-Sohi et al 2015).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Langstrup's suggestion about 'care infrastructure' thus lays the foundation of a renewed conversation between SHI and STS. For example Cheraghi-Sohi et al (2015) have written about work by patients, friends, family members and health professionals, including medication-articulation work (ordering, collecting, or emplacement of medicines); surveillance work (keeping track of progress across the day); emotional work (supporting taking medicines); and informational work (for example around new medicines) that come together to maintain the care infrastructure.…”

Section: Care Infrastructures Work and The Homementioning

confidence: 99%

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Thinking with Care Infrastructures: People, Devices and the Home in Home Blood Pressure Monitoring

Weiner¹,

Will²

2018

Materialities of Care

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The growing consumer market in health monitoring devices means that technologies that were once the preserve of the clinic are moving into spaces such as homes and workplaces. We consider how one such device, blood pressure monitors, comes to be integrated into everyday life. We pursue the concept of 'care infrastructure', drawing on recent scholarship in STS and medical sociology, to illuminate the work and range of people, things and spaces involved in selfmonitoring. Drawing on a UK study involving observations and interviews with 31 people who have used a consumer blood pressure monitor, we apply the concept beyond chronic illness, to practices involving consumer devices -and develop a critical account of its value. We conclude that the care infrastructure concept is useful to highlight the socio-material arrangements involved in selfmonitoring, showing that even for ostensibly personal devices, monitoring may be a shared practice that expresses care for self and for others. The concept also helps draw attention to links between different objects and spaces that are integral to the practice, beyond the device alone. Care infrastructure draws attention to the material, but ensures that analytic attention engages with both material and social elements of practice and their connections.

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Section: Procuring and Providing Devicesmentioning

confidence: 67%

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confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Care Infrastructures Work and The Homementioning

confidence: 99%

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Will²

2018

Materialities of Care

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“…There are few published studies using ego-net or personal network approaches to explore HCPs and informal network members, such as their family and friends, some of whom had healthcare experience. 19 A further study used an ego-net approach to explore roles in 17 The authors used the concept of 'medicines work' to explore the roles of others in enabling medicines taking. They found that personal network members performed tasks such as collecting and monitoring medicines, offering emotional support, and providing information to patients.…”

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Cardiology patients' medicines management networks after hospital discharge: A mixed methods analysis of a complex adaptive system

Fylan

Tranmer

Armitage

et al. 2019

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

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Patients experienced medicines management as individual systems within which they interacted with healthcare staff and informal support to manage their treatment. Multilevel models indicated that there are unexplained variables impacting on patients' assessments of their medicines management networks. Qualitative exploration of the model residuals can offer an understanding of networks that do not have the typical range of support ties.

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Meaning and Management of Multiple Medications Among Public Mental Health Service Users

Scoglio

Adams

Lincoln

2019

Community Ment Health J

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Public mental health service users frequently manage multiple health conditions, and are often prescribed multiple medications. While medications are useful tools in treating diagnosed mental illnesses, they bring management challenges and also can carry complex meanings for the individuals taking them. This study utilized a qualitative methodological approach to examine the experience and meaning of polypharmacy among public mental health services users. This sample of service users (n=26) who were prescribed multiple medications described three distinct types of challenges they faced in managing medications: related to information, material tasks, and selfstigma. Nevertheless, respondents reported creative and resilient strategies to manage these challenges. Findings build on previous literature and reflect the increasing need to focus on challenges related to polypharmacy. Furthermore, findings indicate that low levels of literacy and high levels of material disadvantage, which are common among public mental health service users, complicate the management and meaning of multiple medications. Keywords medication; mental health; stigma; polypharmacy; public mental health services Terms of use and reuse: academic research for non-commercial purposes, see here for full terms. https://www.springer.com/aamterms-v1

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The influence of personal communities on the self-management of medication taking: A wider exploration of medicine work

Cited by 32 publications

References 37 publications

Thinking with Care Infrastructures: People, Devices and the Home in Home Blood Pressure Monitoring

Thinking with Care Infrastructures: People, Devices and the Home in Home Blood Pressure Monitoring

Cardiology patients' medicines management networks after hospital discharge: A mixed methods analysis of a complex adaptive system

Meaning and Management of Multiple Medications Among Public Mental Health Service Users

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