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• TITLE: The Significance of Everyday Life—An Ethnographic Study of Participation in Group-Based Patient Education

  AUTHORS: Tine Mechlenborg Kristiansen, Rasmus Antoft, Jette Primdahl, Kim Hørslev Petersen

  KEYWORDS: Fieldwork, Everyday Life Sociology, Patient Education, Chronic Illness, Rheumatoid Arthritis

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Applied Sociology, Vol.5 No.2, February 3, 2015

  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 everyday life: as identity work, as an extension of “action space” in the practicalities of everyday life, and as a special community based on a common chronic condition. Furthermore, we uncover a difference in terms of what programme participation means to recently diagnosed participants, on one hand, and experienced participants, on the other hand, which is related to differences in their lived experiences of living with and managing chronic illness. This ethnographic study provides an important understanding of how these women create meaning inter-subjectively through social interaction but interpret this meaning individually based on their individual biographical experiences. The findings are relevant both to those who study the significance of patient education (both practitioners and researchers) and to those who are exploring how individuals make sense of living with chronic illness.