Using the Explanatory Model Interview Guide questions (below) and the Elicitation Techniques Guide
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, conduct an interview with a person who is not employed in the health care field. Ask a friend, neighbor, relative, or patient about a recent illness episode or chronic illness. It may be easier if the person has been ill for some time rather than one who is experiencing an acute illness episode of very brief duration. This should be done in person or via video call. They may be part of the same culture you identify with but it may be more enlightening if they are not.
Use the Explanatory Model Interview Guide questions (below) when talking and LISTENING to your “informant”:
Explanatory Model Interview Guide questions:
What do you call this problem?
What do you believe is the cause of this problem?
When did it start? Why do you think it started when it did?
What course do you expect it to take? How serious is it?
What do you think this problem does inside your body? (How does it work?)
What do you do to take care of it?
What do you fear most about the condition?
What do you fear most about the treatment?
A collection of regionally customized explanatory model interviews rooted in a common framework is referred to as the Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue (EMIC). The EMIC was developed in response to study findings in cultural psychiatry and tropical medicine that revealed a need to better integrate epidemiological and anthropological research approaches. Various versions of the EMIC framework have resulted in semi-structured interviews that are based on an operational formulation of an illness explanatory model that systematically clarifies the experience of sickness from the perspective of those who are directly affected. A framework for the operational formulation of the illness explanatory model is formed by patterns of suffering, perceived reasons, preferences for seeking and receiving aid, and general sickness beliefs.
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Brush with death
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By Nicholas Klacsanzky
GanpatipuleI was on an excursion in Ganapatipule, which is a town on the coast on the west side of India, arranged right on the Indian Ocean. I was with my long-term companion, Janu, and his mom, remaining in an inn for a couple of days. The get-away so far was the epitome of unwinding: eating crisp mangoes, getting up late, feasting out constantly (for the most part fish curry), swimming a couple of times each day in the Indian sea, and kidding around with old buddies.
Around three toward the evening on a cloudless day, the sea shore on our side was vacant of individuals other than my companion, his mom, and I. It was liberating to be distant from everyone else on this immense sea shore, known to be a blessed spot among Hindus. Ganapatipule is named after the god Ganesh, and there is a popular Ganesh hallowed place close there where a swayambhu (a model raised from the earth itself as a divine being) is venerated. Washing in the sea around this region should scrub individuals of their pessimism and visiting the place of worship decontaminates people also.
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As I began to swim in the warm sea, hopping over waves, I abandoned my companions. I was wearing a white kurta, or a conventional clothing for men in India, which was overwhelming in the water, however my feet was effectively contacting the sea floor consistently. I generally washed my garments by swimming in the sea when I was there.
In any case, at one moment, I felt that my feet couldn’t contact the sea floor any longer and I dove into the water, weighted somewhere near my garments. The waves continued coming and now they were threatening, as I was getting sucked into the profundities each opportunity they came—regardless of whether I emerged from the water and attempted to swim back to the piece of the sea where I could get an a dependable balance. I had been sucked into a riptide, truth be told, and was stuck in a plunging valley, in spite of my hard endeavors to arrive at security and my hollering to my companions out yonder.
In the wake of battling intensely for a couple, long minutes to conflict with the suction of the riptide, and yelling to my companions out there close to the shore without much of any result, I started to unwind, tolerating my destiny. I never again battled to arrive at the edge of the sea valley to get a decent footing, and during the time spent being maneuvered into the sea and returning up to the surface, I conversed with God so anyone can hear. I talked about what I had fouled up in my life and what I did well. I closed in reflection that my life was satisfying generally speaking, and I felt prepared to bite the dust, tolerating the current condition as the real world.
However as soon I gave up myself to the circumstance, a gigantic wave came and pushed me out of the riptide and the profound valley I was sucked into. On the float of the wave, I arrived close to my companions, who appeared to be bewildered at my demeanor and my expressions of depiction. They were ignorant that I experienced been difficulty. However, it didn’t make a difference at that point—I was glad to arrive at land again and felt my life was reestablished.
I later took in the time I swam was foreboding for swimming at Ganapatipule, as the locals accept the god Ganesh washes around three in evening in the sea there. Maybe Ganesh pardoned me for the interruption, and discharged me from the resentment of the sea against divine convention.