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Health as norm, illness as a "deviation". And how to inquire?
Tavel, P. ; Poláčková Šolcová, Iva
Human health is considered to be a “normal condition”(in contrast to illness). Our qualitative study is focused on asking questions about health or more precisely on analysis of individual interview guides. A total of 106 students (interviewers and researchers at the same time) developed an interview guide asking about health and carried out the interview with three participants. Their task was to reflect, evaluate and improve the quality of their guides after each interview. Thematic analysis utilised for data evaluation was focused on areas in the final versions of the guides. Several essential themes have emerged during categorization of interview guides questions. These themes were – according the students-researchers – most related to health: e.g. lifestyle, eating habits, risk behaviour, role of a doctor, diseases etc. This survey has also pointed to a number of hidden assumptions and beliefs, alleged connections and relations that researchers tended to see in the health theme and inject into the interview guides questions, but mainly to the fact that when asking about another person´s health, they especially wanted to know more about his/her diseases.
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