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Being hospitalized with a newly diagnosed chronic illness - A phenomenological study of children’s lifeworld in the hospital
2012
The impact of a hospital environment on children has rarely been investigated. Recently, however, the perspective of hospitalized children has been taken into account. Being hospitalized and facing an illness represent a dramatic change in a child’s daily life, and the quality of the environment may influence the child’s experiences. The aim of this study was to investigate the experiences of children being hospitalized with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes and to obtain an increased understanding of the environmental influences on the children’s lifeworld. The study used a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. The design is a combination of observation of the participant, interviews, and p…
Beliefs and Experiences of Individuals Following a Zero-Carb Diet
2021
The adoption of carbohydrate-restrictive diets to improve health is increasing in popularity, but there is a dearth of research on individuals who choose to severely restrict or entirely exclude carbohydrates. The present study investigated the beliefs and experiences of individuals following a diet that severely limits, or entirely excludes, dietary carbohydrates, colloquially known as a ‘zero-carb’ diet, for at least 6 months. Zero-carb dieters (n = 170) recruited via a social networking site completed an online qualitative survey prompting them to discuss their motives, rationale, and experiences of following a low-carb diet. Transcripts of participants’ responses were …
Semioantropologia come traduzione del vissuto
2015
Si tratta di una breve etnografia del pensare trascritta tenendo conto del dialogo stabilito tra testo e immagini, tra processi di pensieri e ineludibili forme di codificazione. Il pensiero non viene concepito come risultato di pura forma di cognizione distante dal processo, bensì come atto e processo che si intreccia strettamente con le emozioni e le pratiche in corso. Il quadro d'insieme generale è quello concernente il quotidiano e il fieldwork non esotizzante. It is a short ethnography of thinking written by keeping into account the dialogue established between text and images, processes of thinking and forms of codification. As a consequence, thinking is not conceived as a result of a …