'It's a powerful message': a qualitative study of Australian healthcare professionals' perceptions of asthma through the medium of drawings.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to explore healthcare professionals' (HCPs') perspectives of asthma through their drawings, and their responses when viewing patients' drawings of their experiences of asthma.

Design

A qualitative exploratory study with a purposive, convenience sample of participants. Participants were asked to first express their perspectives of asthma in a drawing, which was followed by a review of drawings made by patients with asthma.

Setting

Primary and tertiary HCPs from Sydney, Australia.

Participants

Twenty-three HCPs from a range of health professions.

Results

The HCPs illustrated their perspective of asthma through drawings which were largely biomedically framed, depicting physiological and clinical aspects of asthma. In contrast, th

SUBMITTER: Cheung MMY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6501968 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature