What is asthma? Content analysis, main descriptors | “Inflammation”, “swelling”, “oedema”, “obstruction” | “Constrict”, “narrow”, “tight” |
Dominant metaphor | Process | Container |
Treatment perspective | Prospective | Retrospective |
Managing asthma | Prior professional responsibility assumed, and then transferred | Patient as experts : “I know my asthma better than anybody” |
Locus of control | Operational (Piaget) | Figurative (Piaget) |
Taxonomy of knowledge used in constructing the model of asthma | Universal (Toulmin) | Existential (Toulmin) |