TITLE:
The happy celiac: An oxymoron or a possibility?
AUTHORS:
Maurizio Esposito
KEYWORDS:
Celiac; Social; Quality of Life; Qualitative; Chronic Illness
JOURNAL NAME:
Health,
Vol.4 No.5,
May
24,
2012
ABSTRACT: Background: Several international studies, confirmed in Italy too, show a hard presence of socio-relational problems inside the celiac population. Methods: Qualitative study involving persons with celiac disease and their families. 25 individual semi-structured interviews were conducted in three Italian regions. Results: Problems of management of social life for celiac persons are experienced, specially in the fields of: school, work, travels and life outside the home. Conclusion: Chronic illness is a “biographical disruption” [1] and the whole society has to be invested to fight the burden of celiac persons in their possibility of access to public life.