TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring women’s self-reported health problems in pregnancy in the UK and Norway
AU - Nilsen, A.B.V.
AU - Eri, T.S.
AU - Downe, S.
AU - Haukeland, Fredriksen
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Women usually conceptualize pregnancy as a normal physiological state. In contrast, formal maternity care provision tends to be focused on pathology and risk. The authors aim to explore the extent to which childbearing women apply a sickness lens to pregnancy. We have therefore examined antenatal problems spontaneously reported by 4,000 UK and Norwegian women who responded to the international social media-based Babies Born Better survey. We coded and classified the free-text comments of the respondents as either complaint or disease. We found striking differences in the rates and types of problems reported by the women. We discuss our findings by applying different perspectives of medicalization and of lay and biomedical knowledge.
AB - Women usually conceptualize pregnancy as a normal physiological state. In contrast, formal maternity care provision tends to be focused on pathology and risk. The authors aim to explore the extent to which childbearing women apply a sickness lens to pregnancy. We have therefore examined antenatal problems spontaneously reported by 4,000 UK and Norwegian women who responded to the international social media-based Babies Born Better survey. We coded and classified the free-text comments of the respondents as either complaint or disease. We found striking differences in the rates and types of problems reported by the women. We discuss our findings by applying different perspectives of medicalization and of lay and biomedical knowledge.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:66670
U2 - 10.1080/07399332.2021.2021913
DO - 10.1080/07399332.2021.2021913
M3 - Article
SN - 0739-9332
VL - 44
SP - 1438
EP - 1453
JO - Health Care for Women International
JF - Health Care for Women International
IS - 45606
ER -
