Publications by authors named "Anna-Malin Karlsson"
Images in medical communication are appreciated by both professionals and patients, but we know little about how they are actually used in clinical practice and in the learning processes of patients. This qualitative study investigates the use and the meaning potential of two different types of heart images: the hand-drawn doctor's sketch and the digital illustration from the web. The analysis starts with how these are recontextualised in social media, tracks them back to their original contexts and finally explores their material resources.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this article, patient activity in 8 audio recorded specialist consultations on fetal cardiology is investigated in order to explore how, why and when patients tend to participate in encounters in which the doctor dominates the interaction. The overall question is: How can the participation of patients in the consultations be connected to the development of higher levels of health literacy, i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: to explore experiences described by posters in Swedish virtual communities before, during and after termination of pregnancy due to a fetal anomaly.
Design: cross-sectional qualitative study of messages in virtual communities. The messages were purposefully selected in 2014 and analyzed with inductive qualitative manifest content analysis.
Background: Pregnant women and their partners use the Internet to search for information following a prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defect.
Objective: Our aim was to explore central subjects of content and to assess the accessibility, reliability, usability, and quality of written information on publicly available information websites about congenital heart defects following a prenatal diagnosis.
Methods: Following searches on Bing and Google, we included websites containing patient information in English.