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“Sometimes I feel like a pharmacist”: identity and medication use among adolescents with juvenile arthritis

Overview of attention for article published in Pediatric Rheumatology, October 2016
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Title
“Sometimes I feel like a pharmacist”: identity and medication use among adolescents with juvenile arthritis
Published in
Pediatric Rheumatology, October 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12969-016-0117-1
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Authors

J. E. McDonagh, K. L. Shaw, J. Prescott, F. J. Smith, R. Roberts, N. J. Gray

Abstract

Taking medicines as intended is difficult for everybody, but young people going through adolescence have greater problems than adults and younger children. One of the most important things that happen during the teenage years is the development of individual identities, which might not remain constant during this time and can be affected deeply by the diagnosis of a long-term condition. The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between identity and medication use among young people with juvenile arthritis. A prospective qualitative study was undertaken to collect private online 'blog' style data from young people (aged 11-19 years) with juvenile arthritis, and their parents, to examine their views about their condition, identity, medication and use of health services. Participants were identified from a large paediatric hospital in the UK. Young people (n = 21) with a median age 14 years (range 11-17 years) posted a median (range) of 8 (1-36) blogs and parents (n = 6) posted 4 (1-12) blogs. Young people gave a strong sense of both private and public identity that was intertwined with their arthritis and treatment. It was evident that young people's self-care was intrinsically linked to their attempts to maintain a sense of individually and socially constructed definitions of normality. The act of taking medication, and the consequences (positive or negative) of that act, had an impact both personally and socially. Young people with juvenile arthritis reflect on their medication as a factor affecting their perception of themselves. Acknowledging the roles of both personal and social identity will be important in any strategies to support optimal medication use. This includes an understanding of the identity transformations that young people can experience and how decision-making may be affected by their attempts to retain pre-diagnosis identities and/or develop new social identities.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
South Africa 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 64 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 15%
Researcher 9 14%
Student > Master 8 12%
Student > Bachelor 7 11%
Other 6 9%
Other 8 12%
Unknown 18 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 12%
Psychology 8 12%
Social Sciences 3 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 24 36%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 December 2020.
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#14,278,154
of 22,896,955 outputs
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#404
of 698 outputs
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#179,220
of 315,882 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Pediatric Rheumatology
#5
of 10 outputs
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