The use of metaphors by service users with diverse long-term conditions: a secondary qualitative data analysis
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Lempp, H., Tang, C., Heavey, E., Bristowe, K., Allan, H., Lawrence, V., Santana Suarez, B., Williams, R., Hinton, L., Gillet, K. and Arber, A. 2024. The use of metaphors by service users with diverse long-term conditions: a secondary qualitative data analysis. Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare . 7 (3). https://doi.org/10.4081/qrmh.2023.11336
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Title | The use of metaphors by service users with diverse long-term conditions: a secondary qualitative data analysis |
Authors | Lempp, H., Tang, C., Heavey, E., Bristowe, K., Allan, H., Lawrence, V., Santana Suarez, B., Williams, R., Hinton, L., Gillet, K. and Arber, A. |
Abstract | Long-term conditions and accompanied co-morbidities now affect about a quarter of the UK population. Enabling patients and caregivers to communicate their experience of illness, in their own words, is vital to developing a shared understanding of the condition and its impact on their life and delivering person-centred care to support them. Studies of patient language show how metaphors provide insight into the physical and emotional world of the patient, but such studies are often limited by their focus on a single illness. The authors undertook a secondary qualitative data analysis of 25 interviews, comparing the metaphors used by patients and parents of patients with five long-term conditions. The analysis shows how similar metaphors can be used in empowering and disempowering ways as patients strive to accept the illness in their daily lives, and how metaphor use depends on the manifestation, diagnosis, and treatment of individual conditions. There are implications for how metaphorical expressions are attended to by healthcare professionals as part of shared care planning. |
Keywords | illness experience; long term conditions; metaphors; secondary data analysis |
Sustainable Development Goals | 3 Good health and well-being |
Middlesex University Theme | Health & Wellbeing |
Research Group | Health |
Publisher | PAGEPress Publications |
Journal | Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare |
ISSN | |
Electronic | 2532-2044 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 12 Jan 2024 |
04 Dec 2023 | |
Publication process dates | |
Submitted | 26 Mar 2023 |
Accepted | 07 Nov 2023 |
Deposited | 14 Dec 2023 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Restricted |
Copyright Statement | © Copyright: the Author(s), 2023 Licensee PAGEPress, Italy Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare 2023; 7:11336 doi:10.4081/qrmh.2023.11336 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduc-tion in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4081/qrmh.2023.11336 |
Language | English |
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