Why do patients struggle with their medicines?—A phenomenological hermeneutical study of how patients experience medicines in their everyday lives

• Joanne M. Fuller ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Joanne.fuller@gu.se

  Affiliations Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC), Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3139-3532

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• Emmelie Barenfeld ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmelie Barenfeld, Inger Ekman

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC), Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, The Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Inger Ekman

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmelie Barenfeld, Inger Ekman

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC), Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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