Table 1.

Descriptors of participants

Descriptors of 11 a participants		Gender			Role in the narrative
	Sami ethnicity	Woman	Men	Age span	Patients	Relatives
	11	9	2	24–40 years (youngest)	4	7
	-	-	-	41–60 years (middle-aged)	-	-
	-	-	-	60–76 years (oldest)	-	-

^aThey are bilingual. North Sami is their first language and mother tongue.