Living Ambivalently with Chronic Illness

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Mobile health smartphone applications (mHealth apps) enable patients to monitor how chronic illness interconnects with their everyday life. I explore, through focus group discussions, how such monitoring makes sense to pediatric and young patients and parents in Denmark. These groups explicate how they live both with and without chronic illness by distinguishing between when to focus on which aspects of it. I argue that this relationship with chronic illness produces parent’s, children’s, and young people’s ambivalent attitudes toward mHealth apps that promote illness monitoring “anywhere” and at “any time.”.

Original languageEnglish
JournalMedical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
Volume42
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)191-205
Number of pages15
ISSN0145-9740
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

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© 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

    Research areas

  • ambivalence, children, chronic illness, Denmark, mHealth, young people

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