Mothers of children with food allergy: A discourse analysis of occupational identities

Occupational identity is a central concept within occupational science and exploration of how the occupational identity of mother is shaped by having a child with a disease is an important consideration within this field. Currently up to 550 million people worldwide experience food allergy (Fiocchi, Sampson, Bahna, & Lack, 2011). The majority are children and the disease has been shown to create significant disruption across their occupational …