Patient Behavior in Region H: How Does Illness Affect How You Act and Master Your Life?

This study investigates how the behavior within different patient groups are affected differently by illness and disease. The investigators ask how participants experience and approach their own health in order to gain insight on the implications of illness and disease on the individual's everyday life and how participants act and think regarding their own health and wellbeing across different patient groups. The investigators' hypothesis is that illness and disease is experienced as a great disturbance and an actor of change in a person's everyday life. Each person has their own individual experience and reaction to this disturbance. Still, there is less evidence for how disparate resources and socioeconomic statuses shape how patients react to this great change in their lives. Here the investigators expect to find demographic patterns across patient groups. The study carries a quantitative and qualitative approach with a broad target population which includes both patients with acute or chronic, serious, or less serious, somatic as well as psychiatric illnesses. The study is placed within the academic traditions of sociological health and disease mapping.