Vol. 25 No. 43 (2025): The biosocial
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Everyday life with diabetes: experiences of children, adolescents and parents in vulnerable life situations

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  • Anette Stamer Ørsted,
  • Mie Engen
Anette Stamer Ørsted
Institut for Sociologi og Socialt arbejde, Aalborg Universitet
Forsiden med overskriften: Det Biosociale. Forestiller en rød og blå fugl med spredte vinger, malet i akvarel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/tfss.v25i43.147327

Published 2025-12-08

Keywords

  • everyday life,
  • Diabetes,
  • Vulnerable life situations

How to Cite

Ørsted, A. S., & Engen, M. (2025). Everyday life with diabetes: experiences of children, adolescents and parents in vulnerable life situations. Tidsskrift for Forskning I Sygdom Og Samfund - Journal of Research in Sickness and Society, 25(43), 110–134. https://doi.org/10.7146/tfss.v25i43.147327

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Abstract

This article explores how children, adolescents and families living with type 1 diabetes in vulner-able life situations experience and create meaning in everyday life. The article contributes with first-person perspectives on being a child and young person with a chronic disease that interacts with personal and social challenges and being parents in a cross-pressure between maintaining an everyday life and a good relationship with their children while having a treatment responsibility. Based on a phenomenological and sociological perspective, the article provides insight into im-plicit understandings of normality that guide people's constructions of meaning and actions in everyday life. The article contributes to research on social inequality in health, and illustrates the difficulties of families facing both treatment responsibilities and complex personal and social challenges that require support from different welfare organizations that handle specialized and limited aspects of a person's life.

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