Åse Boman

Analysis of discourses in a health care context

Abstract To develop nursing as a critical normative science (Kirkevold, 2009), a description of the various care areas and different health phenome...

Conceptions of diabetes and diabetes care in young people with minority background"

Conceptions of Diabetes and Diabetes Care in Young People With Minority Backgrounds.

Adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) need stable self-care routines for good metabolic control to minimize future cardiovascular health...

Encircling discourses : A guide to critical discourse analysis in caring science

Aim The aim of this article was to introduce Fairclough's critical discourse analysis (CDA) in caring and nursing science, to provide a guide on ho...

Fathers' encounter of support from paediatric diabetes teams : the tension between general recommendations and personal experience

The purpose of this grounded theory study was to explore and discuss how fathers involved in caring for a child with type 1 diabetes experienced...

Fathers involved in children with type 1 diabetes : finding the balance between disease control and health promotion

Background: Type I diabetes is a chronic disease that places great demands on the child and family. Parental involvement has been found to be...

Fathers of Children With Type 1 Diabetes : Perceptions of a Father's Involvement From a Health Promotion Perspective

This study describes how fathers of children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes understand their involvement in their child's daily life from a health...

Health care systems in transition: Equality, access and health literacy in three Scandinavian welfare states. : “The Emperor’s new clothes”: discourse analysis on how the patient is constructed in the new Swedish Patient Act

The Swedish welfare debate increasingly focuses on market liberal notions and its healthcare perspective aims for more patient-centered care. This...

Health care to empower self-care in adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus and an immigrant minority background

BACKGROUND: The pediatric diabetes team aims to support health, quality of life, and normal growth and development among adolescents with type 1...

If dad comes, we are happy - if mom fails to appear, we become desperate : A Grounded Theory study of Swedish diabetes teams perecption of fathers’ involvement in their child's everyday life

Background: Since parental involvement is essential to the outcome of diabetes type 1 treatment in childhood and high paternal engagement in everyd...

Learning by supporting others : experienced parents' development process when supporting other parents with a child with Type 1 diabetes

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: This study's purpose was to describe and analyze coach-parents' development process when supporting parents of children recent...

Manoeuvring between interplay and context : an ethnographic study of social interaction in encounters between registered nurses, older patients and their relatives

Background: Social interactions between registered nurses, older patients and their relatives are essential and play a central role in developing a...

Parents' discursive resources : Analysis of discourses in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian health care guidelines for children with diabetes type 1

The incidence of diabetes type 1 in children, the most common metabolic disorder in childhood, increases worldwide, with highest incidence in...

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Scandinavian Online Cancer Information as Expressions of Governmentality

We compared online distributed information provided to patients with cancer in Scandinavian countries through the lens of governmentality. A...

Striving to establish a care relationship -Mission possible or impossible? : Triad encounters between patients, relatives and nurses

BACKGROUND: When patients, relatives and nurses meet, they form a triad that can ensure a good care relationship. However, hospital environments ar...

Swedish pediatric diabetes teams' perception of fathers' involvement : A Grounded Theory study

The purpose of this study was to analyze how Swedish pediatric diabetes teams perceived and discussed fathers' involvement in the care of their chi...

"The Emperor's new clothes" : discourse analysis on how the patient is constructed in the new Swedish Patient Act.

The Swedish welfare debate increasingly focuses on market liberal notions and its healthcare perspective aims for more patient-centered care. This...

The reasonable patient : A Swedish discursive construction

The aim of this study was to analyse how the patient is constructed and socially positioned in Swedish patient information. Corpus-assisted critica...

The Struggle Between Ancient Welfare Thinking and Prevailing Health Care Policy in Scandinavian Health Care Legislative Documents

The struggle between ancient welfare thinking and prevailing health care policy in Scandinavian health care legislative documents

Traditional welfare state systems in Scandinavia are challenged by new governance systems. Demands for efficiency and productivity in healthcare...

The struggle between welfare state models and prevailing healthcare policy in Scandinavian healthcare legislative documents

Purpose The paper aims to compare and discuss the findings of discursive constructions of patients in legal texts from the three Scandinavian...

Voices used by nurses when communicating with patients and relatives in a department of medicine for older people : An ethnographic study

AIM: To describe how nurses communicate with older patients and their relatives in a department of medicine for older people in western Sweden....

What are they talking about? Content of the communication exchanges between nurses, patients and relatives in a department of medicine for older people : An ethnographic study

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To explore and describe the content of the communication exchanges between nurses, patients and their relatives in a departmen...