Therefore, we recommend health and social care professionals make use of narrative and biography to explore and to obtain a greater professional awareness of the ways culturally shaped illness attributions impact on how patients comprehend their illness and seek help.
A greater professional awareness of the processes used by PwMS from diverse communities to make sense of their situation will enable health care professionals to facilitate effective support for those in their care and channel relevant psychosocial resources to them.
They further identified poor collegial collaboration and support, where a lack of professional awareness and understanding of cross-disciplinary expertise often compounded institutional impediments to care.
Rather, it seems that, this reported increase can be attributed to better knowledge of the disease and its variability, broader diagnostic criteria, improved public and professional awareness, and a higher level of acceptance of the diagnosis.
A combination of a valued social practice affecting marginalised communities, complicated patterns of risk, and low professional awareness, makes this a complex and contentious issue.
However, despite the widespread public and professional awareness of the results, an independent, nonbiased analysis of the quality of the methodology of the study has not been available.
The model describes collaboration as an evolving process consisting of five stages: stage 0 – professional awareness, stage 1 – professional recognition, stage 2 – exploration and trial, stage 3 – professional relationship expansion and stage 4 – commitment to the collaborative working relationship.
One may speculate that an intervention like ours, which aim to increase patient and health professional awareness on health matters such as drug treatment and adverse reactions, may increase consumption of healthcare.
First is the imperative to avoid ketoacidosis in children through improved public and professional awareness.
This could be achieved through continuing education of Norwegian optometrists and professional awareness campaigns.
