'A Story of Being Invisible': A Single Case Study on the Significance of Being Recognised When Needing Acute Healthcare in the Early COVID-19 Pandemic.

Severe illness is often an existential threat that triggers emotions like fear, stress, and anxiousness. Such emotions can affect ill patients' encounters with healthcare personnel. We present a single case study of an older woman who contracted COVID-19 and her challenge to be recognised by healthcare personnel in the early pandemic.

Acquiring a new understanding of illness and agency: a narrative study of recovering from chronic fatigue syndrome.

Background: The condition known as chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is poorly understood. Simplified medical models tend to neglect the complexity of illness, contributing to a terrain of uncertainty, dilemmas and predicaments. However, despite pessimistic pictures of no cure and poor prognosis, some patients recover.

Creative writing as a means to recover from early psychosis- Experiences from a group intervention.

Background: In this paper, we explore the subjective experiences of a group intervention in creative writing (CW) for young adults being treated for psychosis.

Method: A qualitative and exploratory design was applied. Five out of eight patients who were offered a course in CW with two-hour weekly sessions for 12 weeks took part in this study.

Nobody Dies Alone in the Electronic Patient Record-A Qualitative Analysis of the Textual Practices of Documenting Dying and Death.

In this study, we analyse the electronic patient record (EPR) as a genre and investigate how a death is documented as part of the EPR, that is, what kind of textual practices can be found, and how they can be understood based on extracts from 42 EPRs from medical wards in Norwegian hospitals. Following from our analysis, we see four distinct patterns in the documentation of patient death: a) registering the bare minimum of information, b) registering a body stopped working, c) documenting dying quietly and placing it in peaceful surroundings, and d) highlighting the accompanied death. The textual practices of documenting the transition to death in the EPR make death appear manageable and sanitised, depicting death as either uneventful or good.

The poetics of vulnerability: creative writing among young adults in treatment for psychosis in light of Ricoeur's and Kristeva's philosophy of language and subjectivity.

There is a growing interest in the application of creative writing in the treatment of mental illness. Nonpharmacological approaches have shown that access to poetic, creative language can allow for the verbalisation of illness experiences, as well as for self-expressions that can include other facets of the subject outside of the disease. In particular, creative writing in a safe group context has proven to be of particular importance.

Finding ways to carry on: stories of vulnerability in chronic illness.

In this study, we explore the lived experiences of chronic illness in four groups of patients; children with asthma, adolescents with diabetes, young adults with depression, and adult patients with chronic, obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Persons living with chronic illness are often designated as vulnerable. This study builds on the assumption that being vulnerable belongs to being human, and that vulnerability also might entail strength and possibilities for growth.

Patients' illness narratives-From being healthy to living with incurable cancer: Encounters with doctors through the disease trajectory.

Background: Narrative medicine emphasizes how stories can increase the understanding of patients' experiences and give important insights into how patients interpret and strive to make meaning in the situation they find themselves in.

Aim: The aim of this study was to gain insight into the illness narratives of cancer patients, from the day they suspected that something was wrong until living with incurable cancer.

Methods And Results: Six men and seven women, aged 47 to 79 years, diagnosed with metastatic cancer and undergoing chemotherapy with life-prolonging intent in an oncology outpatient clinic, were asked to tell their illness stories as freely as possible, without guiding questions.

Negotiating the turning point in the transition from curative to palliative treatment: a linguistic analysis of medical records of dying patients.

Background: Many deaths in Norway occur in medical wards organized to provide curative treatment. Still, medical departments are obliged to meet the needs of patients at the end of life. Here, we analyse the electronic patient record regarding documentation of the transition from curative to palliative care (i.

A complex reminding: The ethics of poetry writing in dementia care.

Interest in the potential benefits of poetry writing in dementia care has been increasing. Various practical projects, as well as research articles, have highlighted how poetry can acknowledge the words of persons with dementia, and increase well-being. In this article, the authors present a poetry writing project in dementia care in Norway, and argue for how poetry as a genre involves lyrical as well as ethical aspects.

An intimate connection: Exploring the visual art experiences of persons with dementia.

The purpose of this study is to describe and discuss the art experience of persons with dementia taking part in guided museum tours at a Norwegian art museum. The analysis is based on semi-structured open-ended interviews with participants and researcher field notes. The results demonstrate the capacity and willingness of persons with dementia to reach out and connect on a personal level with the artworks.

Queer narratives and minority stress: Stories from lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals in Norway.

Aims: This study aims to explore how minority stress related to sexual orientation is reflected in narratives from lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals in Norway, with an impact for national public health policy.

Methods: Arthur Frank's dialogical narrative analysis was applied to personal stories from 65 persons self-referring to different categories of queer identities, submitted online anonymously to a Norwegian national archive for queer history. A purposive sample of three different stories were selected due to their capacity to illuminate how various aspects of minority stress are narrated in diverse interplays between individual voices and resources, and cultural scripts and societal influences.

Narratives of nostalgia in the face of death: The importance of lighter stories of the past in palliative care.

My research on the stories of palliative care patients emphasizes the heterogeneity of the types of stories they tell, including stories of illness, of everyday life, of the future, and of the past (Synnes, 2012). This article pays special attention to the prevalence of stories of past experiences in which the past is portrayed through idyllic and nostalgic interpretation. In contrast to most research on illness narratives and narrative gerontology that is preoccupied with stories of change, these stories of nostalgia are characterized by a plot where nothing in particular happens.

The loss of a mother and dealing with genetic cancer risk: women who have undergone prophylactic removal of the ovaries.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to highlight some new findings from a qualitative study that have not been previously considered.

Method: The research was based on a qualitative phenomenological method. Data were collected by semi-structured individual interviews.

Understanding cancer patients' reflections on good nursing care in light of Antonovsky's theory.

Purpose: Data from an empirical study about cancer patients' perception of good caring are analysed in the light of Antonovsky's theory. The aim was to reflect on whether and how health personnel by giving good care, can function as vital resources at cancer patients disposal in activating their General Resistance Resources (GRRs) in a stressful life situation, and by that contribute to promotion and maintenance of their sense of coherence.

Methods And Sample: A hermeneutical approach was chosen for analysing the data.