Table 1 Conceptual categories and example quotations from participants for theme 1
From: How patients with gout become engaged in disease management: a constructivist grounded theory study
Theme 1: Processing the diagnosis and management of gout | |
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Conceptual category | Example quotations |
Adapting to gout | “I’m very, I’m very careful for what I am eating or, or drinking.” (Participant 5, male) “You plan your day around how you feel.” (Participant 11, male) |
Searching for reason | “I don’t know whether it was because I was particularly dehydrated when I took the blood test or maybe I’d consumed more of the triggers leading up to it.” (Participant 8, male) “If I have a, a gout what’s this, a flared up, I always have tears in my eyes, why me, why me, I ask myself, why me.” (Participant 5, male) |
Testing the waters | “Because I hadn’t been having flare ups, I, I felt I could indulge a little bit more in some of the foods that I knew that were triggers.” (Participant 8, male) “So I took it [allopurinol] every other day for a while and I held my own and then I tried every second day for maybe a couple of weeks.” (Participant 7, female) |