Blar i forfatter "Kvamme, Maria Fredriksen"

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    • ‘Fixing my life’: young people’s everyday efforts towards recovery from persistent bodily complaints 

      Kvamme, Maria Fredriksen; Wang, Catharina Elisabeth Arfwedson; Waage, Trond; Risør, Mette Bech (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-23)
      Little is known about the perspectives of young people suffering from medically unexplained symptoms. This study aims to explore the experiences and strategies of young Norwegians related to incipient and persistent health complaints affecting everyday life functioning. The study draws on field notes, video material and interview transcripts from a multi-sited ethnographic study of healthcare services ...

    • ‘Not a film about my slackness’: Making sense of medically unexplained illness in youth using collaborative visual methods 

      Østbye, Silje Vagli; Kvamme, Maria Fredriksen; Wang, Catharina Elisabeth Arfwedson; Haavind, Hanne; Waage, Trond; Risør, Mette Bech (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-06)
      Persistent medically unexplained symptoms have debilitating consequences for adolescents, dramatically altering their social world and future aspirations. Few studies have focused on social and moral aspects of illness experience relevant to adolescents. In this study, the aim is to explore these aspects in depth by focusing on a single case and to address how young people attempt to create social ...

    • Suffering, agency and care in medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). An ethnographic study of the social course and reframing of MUS in Norwegian youth 

      Kvamme, Maria Fredriksen (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2020-05-12)
      Communicative challenges and the role of communication in making sense of symptoms are shown in the scientific and biomedical conceptualizations of the phenomenon of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), in health communication and in the challenges of patients with MUS to understand and manage their illnesses. Little is known about young people’s experiences, how they cope with their illness and ...