Swedish health care professionals’ diverse understandings of diabetes care

Experiences of the encounter with the diabetes team—A comparison between obese and normal-weight type 2 diabetic patients

“…It is common for care providers' lifestyle counselling to encompass their own views of what is right or wrong without taking account of the diabetic patient's individual perspective. This means that the care provider is the active expert and the diabetic person the passive recipient who receives the advice given without question [8]. To our knowledge there are no studies describing obese diabetic patients' experiences of the care encounter.…”

“…It is a challenge for the diabetes team to make the patient regard the disease as a manageable condition [23]. The care providers' understanding of the diabetes and the care encounter is crucial for the patient's learning process [8].…”

On the Scholarship of Pedagogy in the Health Sciences

“…Studies are to be found from women's experience of physical activity following breast cancer treatment (Larsson, Jönsson, Olsson, Gard & Johansson 2008) to nurses' perceptions of thirst in patients on mechanical ventilation (Landström, Rehn & Frisman 2009), and from understandings of diabetes care held by health professionals (Holmström, Halford & Rosenqvist 2003) to women patients' conceptions of integrity within health care (Widäng, Fridlund & Mårtensson 2007). Aronsson et al (in press) have studied how health science students at the end of their programmes of study integrate pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics and drug interactions in their consideration of typical case presentations in practice, and Zetterqvist et al (in press) have studied communication competences of the same students.…”

How patient-centred am I?

“…Understanding is, according to theory, expressed in actions [12,13]. This kind of conceptions can be uncovered by using the three questions derived from Dall'alba [14] and later well documented by several authors [15,16].…”