Table 2 Categories and original data from the theme ‘From noticing to sanctioning (seeking medical help)’
Category | Data |
|---|---|
Carers role in seeking medical help | Interviewer: What made you first go to your doctors two and a half years ago? |
Participant: [My wife] heard me coughing and took me there. (P9) | |
… my son he said I’m fed up of this, I’m going to take you to the walk-in centre in [town]. (P16) | |
My two daughters were here at the time, had come to help the wife and they saw the state I was in and I was in and out of bed and making a mess all over the place. They came and they took me to hospital. (P7) | |
Reluctance of participants to follow carer’s advice to seek medical help | I felt poorly, my sons came on the Saturday, and they said, “We should have an ambulance and go down to the hospital.”…[Patient declined]…I must admit I’m pretty strong willed…on Sunday I felt worse and my granddaughter rang…I said, “I'm going to the doctor’s in the morning” but she rang at seven in the night and she said that I was incoherent…they all suddenly descended here and apparently I was slumped in the chair. (P5) |