Langås-Larsen Anette, Salamonsen Anita, Kristoffersen Agnete Egilsdatter, Hamran Torunn, Evjen Bjørg, Stub Trine
a The National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM), Department of Community Medicine, The Faculty of Health Sciences , UiT the Arctic University of Norway , Tromsø , Norway.
b Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare (RKBU North), The Faculty of Health Sciences , UiT the Arctic University of Norway , Tromsø , Norway.
Int J Circumpolar Health. 2018 Dec;77(1):1438572. doi: 10.1080/22423982.2018.1438572.
When people in Northern Norway get ill, they often use traditional medicine. The global aim of this study was to examine the extended family networks' function and responsibility in cases of illness in the family, in two Northern Norwegian communities with a population of mixed ethnicity.
Semi-structured individual interviews with 13 participants and 4 focus group interviews with total 11 participants were conducted. The text data was transcribed verbatim and analysed based on the criteria for content analysis.
The participants grew up in areas where it was common to seek help from traditional healers. They were organized in networks and shared responsibility for the patient and they provided practical help and support for the family. According to the networks, health-care personnel should make room for the entire network to visit the patient in severe and life-threatening situations.
Traditional networks are an extra resource for people in these communities. The networks seem to be essential in handling and disseminating hope and manageability on an individual as well as a collective level. Health personnel working in communities with mixed ethnicity should have thorough knowledge of the mixed culture, including the importance of traditional network to the patients.
挪威北部的人们生病时常常使用传统医学。本研究的总体目标是，在挪威北部两个有不同种族人口的社区中，考察患病家庭中大家庭网络的功能与责任。
对13名参与者进行了半结构化个人访谈，并对总共11名参与者进行了4次焦点小组访谈。文本数据逐字转录，并根据内容分析标准进行分析。
参与者在向传统治疗师寻求帮助很常见的地区长大。他们组成网络，共同承担对患者的责任，并为家庭提供实际帮助和支持。根据这些网络的说法，医护人员应该为整个网络留出空间，以便在严重和危及生命的情况下探访患者。
传统网络是这些社区居民的额外资源。这些网络在个人层面和集体层面处理和传播希望以及可控感方面似乎至关重要。在有不同种族人口的社区工作的卫生人员应该全面了解混合文化，包括传统网络对患者的重要性。
