Prioritizing social identities: Patients' perspective on living with multimorbidity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This article explores experiences of people with multimorbidity, and attempts to advance understandings of the complexity of living with multimorbidity outside the medical encounter in a social identity theoretical framework.

Method

This is a qualitative study using individual semi-structured interviews among nine persons living with multimorbidity. The interviews are analysed inductively according to thematic content analysis.

Results

The emerging themes are: 1) Impact on daily life, 2) Professional life and 3) Capacity for handling multimorbidity. People with multimorbidity experience physical limitations and psychological distress, which limits their ability to maintain social relations and affiliation to the labour market. Accordingly, they are challenge

SUBMITTER: Sand CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8107931 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature