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Table 2 Category 'attitude' and quotations of the subcategories 'professional attitude' and 'political/administrative attitude'

From: The perceived meaning of a (w)holistic view among general practitioners and district nurses in Swedish primary care: a qualitative study

Attitude

Professional attitude

"In this connection a comprehensive view is an attitude that enables one to cover many dimensions in an illness or sickness, it's not necessary to have all the information – a comprehensive view does not mean that one has a lot more information" (Interview 1)

"I think it 's like a floating spirit that one has a kind of feeling about" (Interview 4)

"For me a comprehensive view is the opposite to a partial view, it's not just giving health care, it's all about not only being an ear specialist or not only being a psychiatrist or not only an orthopaedist and seeing only those problems but it is the comprehensive view" (Interview 4)

"We have like two conceptions, one including society and one about the whole person where you see not only the patient's wound but all other parts as well and that both body and soul in some way should feel all right. From there you make your professional decisions"(Interview 7)

Political/administrative attitude

"Yes, I must say that I have had a bit of a problem with this concept, a comprehensive view, because I have always thought of it as a prestigious word. I have never ever felt that I work with a comprehensive view, and when someone stands up and says that now we are going to work with a comprehensive view, then it has been a kind of, well bombastic talk from the director." (Interview 2)