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From the onset of chronic illness, a variety of challenges emerge-challenges that both persist and evolve as life progresses. For young adults living with chronic illness, the age-specific difficulties of becoming ill while young form a fou…

OBJECTIVES: To explore the experience and impact of physical chronic illnesses in the lives of young people. DESIGN: Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. SETTING: Interviews were conducted between March 2023 and February 20…

Young adults living with chronic illness often experience considerable uncertainty across the emotional, cultural and medical spheres of their everyday lives. The process of seeking, receiving and reckoning with a diagnosis has frequently b…