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| Title: | The Paradox of Being Both Needed and Rejected: The Existential Meaning of Being Closely Related to a Person with Bipolar Disorder |
| Authors: | Rusner, Marie
Carlsson, Gunilla
Brunt, David
Nyström, Maria |
| Department: | University of Borås. School of Health Sciences |
| Issue Date: | 2012 |
| Journal Title: | Issues in Mental Health Nursing |
| ISSN: | 0161-2840
1096-4673 |
| Volume: | 33 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 200-208 |
| Publisher: | Informa Healthcare |
| Media type: | text |
| Publication type: | article, peer reviewed scientific |
| Keywords: | bipolar disorder
close relatives
phenomenology |
| Subject Category: | Subject categories::Medical and Health Sciences::Psychiatry::Psychiatry |
| Area of Research: | Existentiella vårdfrågor |
| Strategic Research Area: | Integrated nursing science |
| Abstract: | The aim of this study was to elucidate the existential meaning of being closely related to a person with bipolar disorder. A qualitative, descriptive, and explorative design with a phenomenological meaning-oriented analysis was used. The findings reveal a paradoxical, existential exposure of close relatives to a person with bipolar disorder, being both needed and rejected whilst being overshadowed by the specific changeable nature of bipolar disorder.
Psychiatric health care services are recommended to consider changes in attitudes and structures that may facilitate close relatives’ participation in the care and treatment of persons with
bipolar disorder. |
| Sponsorship: | The authors thank the Council of Research and Development in Södra Älvsborg,
Swedbank Sjuhärads Foundation for Research at Södra Älvsborgs Hospital, and the Swedish Nurse Association for generous financial support. |
| DOI: | 10.3109/01612840.2011.653037 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2320/10978 |
| Sustainable development: | - |
| Appears in Collections: | Artiklar och rapporter / Articles and reports (VHB)
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