Challenging social cognition models of adherence: Cycles of discourse, historical bodies, and interactional order

Murdoch, Jamie, Salter, Charlotte, Poland, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0003-6911 and Cross, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7003-1916 (2015) Challenging social cognition models of adherence: Cycles of discourse, historical bodies, and interactional order. Qualitative Health Research, 25 (2). pp. 283-294. ISSN 1552-7557

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Abstract

Attempts to model individual beliefs as a means of predicting how people follow clinical advice have dominated adherence research, but with limited success. In this article, we challenge assumptions underlying this individualistic philosophy and propose an alternative formulation of context and its relationship with individual actions related to illness. Borrowing from Scollon and Scollon’s three elements of social action – “historical body,” “interaction order,” and “discourses in place” – we construct an alternative set of research methods and demonstrate their application with an example of a person talking about asthma management. We argue that talk- or illness-related behavior, both viewed as forms of social action, manifest themselves as an intersection of cycles of discourse, shifting as individuals move through these cycles across time and space. We finish by discussing how these dynamics of social action can be studied and how clinicians might use this understanding when negotiating treatment with patients.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	compliance,communication,discourse analysis,ethnography,health behavior,interviews
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Services and Primary Care Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Dementia & Complexity in Later Life Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Promotion Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Population Health Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Lifespan Health
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	25 Jul 2014 15:46
Last Modified:	04 Oct 2024 23:52
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/48900
DOI:	10.1177/1049732314552074

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