What is it about?
People with functional limitations experience that their social relations have a huge impact on their quality of life and participation. We find that that people with functional limitations experience the need of developing and using social tactics to avoid for example stigma or prejudice.
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Why is it important?
Our finding point in two directions. 1) Teaching people with disabilities about social tactics may improve their ability to interact socially, hence improve their quality of life. 2) Teaching children in e.g. schools about how people with functional limitations can by challenged by their social relations may reduce the need of social tactics among people with functional limitations in the future.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a great pleasure as it was part of my PhD-project. The article has given a voice to a diverse group of people with chronic illness and disability who experience functional limitations.
Louise Jespersen
National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark
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This page is a summary of: Living with a disability: a qualitative study of associations between social relations, social participation and quality of life, Disability and Rehabilitation, January 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2018.1424949.
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