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1 - Themes for the family interviews

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2009

Simon R. Wilkinson
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Summary

  1. Experience of illness within the family

  2. Words used to describe illness

  3. Experience of accidents within the family

  4. How it is suspected that the child is ill, together with how the child lets the parents know.

  5. When decision-making is difficult, how the uncertainty is resolved

  6. How the child's attendance at nursery/school is decided if the child is a little unwell

  7. Allocation of the role of health expert between the parents

  8. Who the best worrier is about illness in the family

  9. The child's ‘attachment person’ when ill

  10. The things done in the family to ‘make things better’

  11. Experience of various kinds of health workers

  12. Things the family does to keep as healthy as possible

  13. The family's view on the causes of illness and the nature of germs

  14. The place of cautionary tales

  15. Tooth fairies

  16. How illness in one family member affects how everyone else gets on together

  17. Any other comments

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The Child's World of Illness
The Development of Health and Illness Behaviour
 , pp. 267
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1988

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