TY - JOUR AU - Raffing, Rie AU - Pisinger, Charlotta PY - 2008/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - RISIKOADFÆRD OG DET GODE LIV: Spørgsmål til en livsstil med øl, cigaretter og mangel på motion JF - Tidsskriftet Antropologi JA - TA VL - 0 IS - 58 SE - Artikler DO - 10.7146/ta.v0i58.106826 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/tidsskriftetantropologi/article/view/106826 SP - AB - <p align="LEFT">This pilot study looks into the question of why some people continue a lifestyle</p><p align="LEFT">of risk behaviour, knowing full well that this might cause them illness in the future.</p><p align="LEFT">Risk behaviour in this study was defined by not meeting the recommendations</p><p align="LEFT">from the Danish National Board of Health: Not to smoke, to keep a BMI</p><p align="LEFT">lower than 25, to drink less than 14 (women) or 21 (men) standard drinks per</p><p align="LEFT">week and to be physically active at least half an hour each day. Each interviewee</p><p align="LEFT">failed to meet at least two of these recommendations and did not have plans to</p><p align="LEFT">change his or her lifestyle. The aim of this study was to qualitatively investigate</p><p align="LEFT">how four citizens from West Copenhagen, with high risk behaviour, regarded</p><p>the concepts of health, illness and risk; the study also addresses the factors that</p><p align="LEFT">would increase their motivation for lifestyle change. This study showed that the</p><p align="LEFT">informants’ attitudes to risk behaviour were negotiated, created and maintained</p><p align="LEFT">around the following themes which are part of a practical rationalism: “future”,</p><p align="LEFT">“probability”, “it happens to others” and “luck”. The threat of illness caused by</p><p align="LEFT">risk behaviour was expected to be the primary motivating factor for lifestyle</p><p align="LEFT">change. The informants with high-risk behaviour had a short-term perspective</p><p align="LEFT">that dominated their everyday lives. They didn’t expect to fall ill due to their risk</p><p align="LEFT">behaviour, but if they did, they considered the disease to be the primary motivating</p><p>factor for lifestyle change.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -