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dc.contributor.authorMengshoel, Anne Marit
dc.contributor.authorSim, Julius
dc.contributor.authorAhlsen, Birgitte
dc.contributor.authorMadden, Sue
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-16T16:02:56Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-21T12:54:26Z
dc.date.available2018-01-16T16:02:56Z
dc.date.available2018-03-21T12:54:26Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationMengshoel AM, Sim, Ahlsen B, Madden. Diagnostic experience of patients With fibromyalgia - A meta-ethnography. Chronic Illness. 2017en
dc.identifier.issn1742-3953
dc.identifier.issn1745-9206
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/5786
dc.description.abstractObjective To examine how individuals experience the process and consequences of receiving a diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome. Methods A systematic literature search of qualitative studies up to May 2016 was performed. Twenty-eight reports including information on patients’ diagnostic experiences were subjected to an interpretive analysis in accordance with the principles of meta-ethnography. Results Years were normally spent consulting specialists in an attempt to confirm the reality of symptoms and make sense of the illness. Great relief was felt at finally achieving the fibromyalgia syndrome diagnosis. However, relief waned when therapies proved ineffective. Health professionals and others questioned whether individuals were genuinely ill, that the illness had a psychological nature, and whether they were doing their best to recover. The diagnosis did not provide a meaningful explanation of individuals’ suffering and had limited power to legitimate illness. Patients felt blamed for their failure to recover, threatening their personal credibility and moral identity. Conclusion The fibromyalgia syndrome diagnosis has limitations in validating and making sense of patients’ illness experiences and in providing social legitimation of their illness. Social relationships are strained during the diagnostic process and in the course of ineffective therapies.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen
dc.subjectFibromyalgiaen
dc.subjectContested illnessen
dc.subjectDiagnostic experienceen
dc.subjectLegitimacyen
dc.subjectMetasynthesisen
dc.subjectMeta-ethnographyen
dc.titleDiagnostic experience of patients With fibromyalgia - A meta-ethnographyen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.date.updated2018-01-16T16:02:55Z
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionen
dc.identifier.cristin1484866
dc.source.journalChronic Illness


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