The Significance of Everyday Life—An Ethnographic Study of Participation in Group-Based Patient Education
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53744#.VNHHdCzQrzE Author(s) Tine Mechlenborg Kristiansen 1* , Rasmus Antoft 2 , Jette Primdahl 3,4 , Kim Hørslev Petersen 3,4 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Medicine and Health Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark . 2 Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark . 3 Kong Chr. X’s Hospital of Rheumatic Diseases, Graasten, Denmark . 4 Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark . ABSTRACT Drawing on a social phenomenological perspective in the sociology of everyday life, this ethno-graphic field study explores different ways in which women with rheumatoid arthritis perceive participation in a patient education programme as significant to their everyday lives. In particular, there are three ways in which this participation is perceived as significant to e...