Abstract / Description of output
Adopting and maintaining a healthy diet is pivotal to diabetic regimens. Behavioural research has focused on strategies to modify/maintain healthy behaviours; thus 'compliance' and 'non-compliance' are operationalized by researchers. In contrast, discursive psychology focuses on the actions different accounts accomplish-in this case regarding diets. Using thematic discourse analysis, we examine dietary management talk in repeat-interviews with 40 newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients. Women in our study tended to construct dietary practices as an individual concern, while men presented food consumption as a family matter. Participants accounted for 'cheating' in complex ways that aim to accomplish, for instance, a compliant identity. Discursive psychology may facilitate fluidity in our understandings of dietary management, and challenge fixed notions of 'compliant' and 'non-compliant' diabetes patients.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 779-791 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Journal of Health Psychology |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2005 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Compliance
- Diabetic regimen
- Diet
- Discourse analysis
- Type 2 diabetes