" Blaming, shaming, humiliation": Stigmatising medical interactions among people with non-epileptic seizures.

ABSTRACT: Background: People with non-epileptic seizures (NES) describe challenging relationships with health professionals, and explain negative interactions as common and expected. Despite these difficulties, little is known about how people with NES experience difficult healthcare encounters. Methods: Using a thematic discourse analysis approach, we analysed the free-text survey responses of 135 people with NES and asked: what kind of challenges do people living with this condition encounter when interacting with health professionals, and how do they experience the consequences of difficult interactions? We explore their experiences by interpreting the latent meaning of participants' texts from a social-constructionist perspective on health and illness. Results: The overarchi

SUBMITTER: Robson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5664997 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature