Carolyn Chew-Graham c.a.chew-graham@keele.ac.uk
Non-disclosure of chronic kidney disease in primary care and the limits of instrumental rationality in chronic illness self-management
Chew-Graham
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Early detection of long term conditions is predicated on assumptions that lifestyle changes and medications can be used to reduce or manage the risk of condition progression. However, ambiguity remains about the nature and place of diagnostic disclosure to people in newly recognised or asymptomatic ‘pre’ conditions such as early stage chronic kidney disease (CKD). The disclosure of a diagnosis is relevant to instigating strategies which rely on actively engaging patients as self-managers of their own care. Whilst primary care routinely records a diagnosis of early stage CKD, little is known about how patients learn about the fact that they have CKD or how they respond to this. This study aimed to explore patients' experiences of disclosure of CKD in primary care settings.
A nested qualitative study of participants recruited to a trial of an intervention for CKD patients in Greater Manchester, UK was undertaken. A purposive sample of 26 patients, with a mean age of 72 years (range 59–89, median 71), were interviewed during 2012. Interview transcripts were analysed using constant comparative techniques. Narrative accounts reflected limited or partial disclosure of CKD; often cast in vague terms as “nothing to worry about”. How patients described themselves in terms of participation and their tendencies towards ‘active’ or ‘passive’ involvement in consultations emerged as important components of narratives around disclosure. The findings illuminate the ways in which diagnosis is oriented in a context where it is possible to meet the requirements for remuneration under a pay for performance system of primary care, whilst apparently not disclosing a label or a diagnosis to patients. This challenges the presumptions inherent in wider health policy objectives that are increasingly built on the notion of responsible patients and the ethos of the active support of self-management for pre-conditions.
Acceptance Date | Feb 25, 2015 |
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Publication Date | Feb 25, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | May 26, 2023 |
Journal | Social Science and Medicine |
Print ISSN | 0277-9536 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Pages | 31 - 39 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.035 |
Keywords | UK, Qualitative study, Diagnosis, Chronic kidney disease, Doctor–patient communication, Self-management |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.035 |
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