Qualitative Study on the Factors that Affect Behaviours of the Participants with Atopic Dermatitis in Adult

Abstract

Atopic dermatitis in adult is a disease of chronic or chronically relapsing dermatitis and difficult to cure. The participants with atopic dermatitis in adult tend to change hospitals from place to place to test various cures. And they use various folk remedies including water, bath powder, soap, herbal medicine and health food.
The purpose of this study was to extract the categories that affect those behaviours of the participants.
This study was qualitative research, and data were generated rom semi-structured interview. 10 participants were selected: seven men and three women. The procedure of analysis from verbatim transcriptions of interviews and field notes contained six phases.
From the data analysis, 3 categories which included subcategories were extracted : Information consisted of getting from others and getting personally ; Circumstances reflected personal environment, hospital environment, availability of resources and costs ; Own judgement of the effect included better · no change · worse and instant relief from symptoms.