Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #dsma
Most recents (2)
How can diabetes identity be about social change, you ask? Oh, let me share with you my recent publication.
A thread.
QR code will take you to the article. Also, linked below.
#Diabetes #t2d #t1d #dsma #Insulin4all #AcademicChatter
A thread.
QR code will take you to the article. Also, linked below.
#Diabetes #t2d #t1d #dsma #Insulin4all #AcademicChatter
Starting in 2017, I set out to understand how people with diabetes were politicizing the condition of diabetes online. And one of the areas that I was especially interested in was identity.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…
However, when I looked up other published studies on diabetes identity, everything I found was centered around compliance. Researchers and HCPs were only interested in diabetes identity to the extent that it improved a person's willingness to perform self-management behaviors.
Thread. Been contemplating a lot on this recently. In my researching, it seems like 99% (basically all) of the literature on DOCs or Online Health Communities (OHCs) focuses on how participation benefits health. This has always irked me. 1/x #AcademicTwitter #DOC #dsma #hcsm
I get it. And that makes sense. DOCs and OHCs are important because they DO SOMETHING for folks. It isn’t all good all the time, but overall, people seem to benefit in some way by talking to others like them. By sharing their stories. 2/x
What irks me, is that research has yet to move beyond health implications. And, it isn’t because that’s all that is happening there. It’s because it is what health-researchers care the most about. They're asking the questions, and they're all related to individual health. 3/x
