Ignored, dismissed, and minimized: Understanding the harmful consequences of invalidation in health care-A systematic meta-synthesis of qualitative research.
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DOI: 10.1037/bul0000473
Abstract: The upsurge in the prevalence of contested, ambiguous, and difficult-to-diagnose illnesses presents challenges for clinicians who too often respond by invalidating patients' symptoms. Although numerous qualitative studies have reported the effects of invalidation on patients'… read more here.
Keywords: symptom invalidation; invalidation; research; health care ... See more keywords
Conceptualizing Symptom Invalidation as Experienced by Patients With Endometriosis
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DOI: 10.1177/10497323241253418
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to provide foundational work to standardize the conceptual definition of what I refer to as symptom invalidation by using invalidating environments and illness representations as guiding conceptual frameworks. Mixed… read more here.
Keywords: symptom invalidation; invalidation; illness representations; conceptualizing symptom ... See more keywords