Children's Perceptions of Asthma: African American Children Use Metaphors to Make Sense of Asthma

Peterson, Jane W.; Sterling, Yvonne M.

doi:10.1016/j.pedhc.2007.10.002

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“…Using an ethnographic approach, Peterson and Sterling (2009) interviewed African-American children who had asthma and found several metaphors used by the children when describing their asthma experience. The child asthma patients used metaphors such as "troll", "jellyfish", "cracker" and "guardian angel" to make sense of their condition.…”

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Metaphor and the Representations of Health and Illness among the Semai Indigenous Community in Malaysia

Lendik

Chan

Renganathan

et al. 2017

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Diverse methods and approaches have been utilised in researching the cultural bases of health, illness and wellbeing. Understanding the cultural representation of health and illness of particular communities becomes urgent especially when the community concerned is underserved in healthcare. In this project, we sought to examine the representations of health and illness by members of the Semai indigenous community through the use of metaphor analysis, a qualitative method in applied linguistics that attend to how people use language in real-world discourses to understand their conceptualisations of abstract ideas and emotions. From semi-structured interviews with the indigenous Semai people in a village in Malaysia, metaphors of health and illness were identified from the oral stories told by participants. Metaphors were identified and analysed following Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) conceptual metaphor theory that explains how people understand one idea in a conceptual domain through accessing resources in another conceptual domain. The results show that universal metaphors are dominant in representing embodied experiences while culturally influenced metaphors are important as vehicles of expression derived from their environment and folk beliefs. We argue that while culturally influenced metaphors may mark the participants as strange in their ways of thinking, a closer look at their underlying frameworks finds that they connect with universal bases that are intrinsic to all human experience. Understanding conceptual metaphors can contribute to the expansion of the locus of shared understanding between healthcare providers and the communities they serve.Keywords: representations of health and illness; metaphor analysis; Semai indigenous communities; metaphors of health and illness; health communication; culture and health

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Metaphor and the Representations of Health and Illness among the Semai Indigenous Community in Malaysia

Lendik

Chan

Renganathan

et al. 2017

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“…[8][9][10][11] Others have shown the value of this approach in, for example, understanding childhood asthma, exploring stigma related to HIV infection, reconstruction of self identity after diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome, complex clinician-patient interactions around requests for physician assisted suicide, and the symptom course in childhood cancer. [12][13][14][15][16] Serial interviews can also be used to identify changes in what patients want, the most acceptable way to carry out interventions, and which outcomes are most important to patients at what times. Allowing the participant-researcher relationship to develop over time enables the generation of more private accounts and descriptions of sensitive topics that are less accessible in initial interviews.…”

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Use of serial qualitative interviews to understand patients' evolving experiences and needs

Hamano

Kendall

Carduff

et al. 2009

BMJ

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Use of serial qualitative interviews to understand patients' evolving experiences and needs | The BMJ http://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b3702.full.print 1/8This site uses cookies. More info Close By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Interviewing patients over the course of their illness can give a much better picture of their experience than single interviews, but the approach is rarely used. Scott Murray and colleagues explain how to get the most from itLongitudinal qualitative research offers considerable advantages over the more typical single "snapshot" techniques in understanding patients' changing experience of illness. Serial qualitative interviews are a convenient and efficient approach to developing an ongoing relationship between the participant and researcher, thereby facilitating discussion of sensitive and personal issues while also allowing exploration of changing needs and experiences.Serial interview studies are widely used by social science researchers in anthropology, criminology, education, psychology, and social policy.1 2 3 4 5 6 However, they remain underused in medicine.7 Using our experience with the technique, we suggest when researchers might wish to use serial interviews and discuss the methods, the data generated, and how to avoid potential pitfalls. When to use serial interviewsSerial interviews are suitable for research that aims to explore evolving and complex processes or when time is needed to develop a relationship between researcher and participants. We have used the approach to study the changing experiences and needs of people with lung and brain cancers, heart failure, severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and spiritual distress, and access to care for south Asian patients at end of life (table⇓).8 9 10 11Others have shown the value of this approach in, for example, understanding childhood asthma, exploring stigma related to HIV infection, reconstruction of self identity after diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome, complex clinician-1

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“…For example, Peterson and Sterling (2009) found that African American children with asthma used certain metaphors to explain how they controlled their symptoms, and thus used metaphors as a way to become more competent and autonomous in managing their health. The current study replicates and extends this finding by showing that metaphors enable individuals to meet their needs for well-being.…”

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Dancing Around Infertility: The Use of Metaphors in a Complex Medical Situation

Palmer-Wackerly

Krieger

2014

Health Communication

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Children's Perceptions of Asthma: African American Children Use Metaphors to Make Sense of Asthma

Cited by 13 publications

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Metaphor and the Representations of Health and Illness among the Semai Indigenous Community in Malaysia

Metaphor and the Representations of Health and Illness among the Semai Indigenous Community in Malaysia

Use of serial qualitative interviews to understand patients' evolving experiences and needs

Dancing Around Infertility: The Use of Metaphors in a Complex Medical Situation

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