Cristin-resultat-ID: 2091062
Sist endret: 6. november 2023, 10:16
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2022
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2022

Patients at risk of suicide and their meaning in life experiences

Bidragsytere:
  • Ane Inger Bondahl Søberg
  • Lars Johan Danbolt
  • Torgeir Sørensen og
  • Sigrid Helene Kjørven Haug

Tidsskrift

Archive for the Psychology of Religion/ Archiv für Religionspsychologie
ISSN 0084-6724
e-ISSN 1573-6121
NVI-nivå 2

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2022
Publisert online: 2022
Trykket: 2023
Volum: 45
Hefte: 1
Sider: 85 - 103
Open Access

Importkilder

Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85142770416

Klassifisering

Emneord

Eksistensiell omsorg • Kvalitativ studie • Meaning in life • Suicidologi

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Tittel

Patients at risk of suicide and their meaning in life experiences

Sammendrag

Patients in specialist mental healthcare services who are at risk of suicide may experience their struggles as existential in nature. Yet, research on meaning in life has been relatively scarce in suicidology. This qualitative study aimed to explore how patients at risk of suicide perceived their encounters with specialist healthcare professionals after a suicide attempt (SA), with special reference to meaning in life experiences. The study was conducted in specialised mental healthcare services in Norway. Data were collected via individual interviews with eight patients aged 20–75 years. Using a four-step procedure, the interviews were analysed by systematic text condensation. The participants understood their feelings of shame, self-contempt and challenging life experiences as contributing factors to their SA. They perceived that existential themes in relation to financial difficulties, shame and trauma were resolved, while issues associated with the SA, such as death, loss and beliefs, were given less attention. The participants were either ambivalent about continuing to live or wished to rebuild a meaningful life. Overall, their experiences of meaningfulness were hampered. Assisting patients with meaning in life experiences may help them alter their life interpretations and increase their ability to rebuild their lives as meaningful. The present study should be seen as a contribution to meaning-informed approaches in specialist mental healthcare services. More research is needed to equip healthcare personnel in their overall aims of preventing suicide and supporting patients at risk in their efforts to live a meaningful life

Bidragsytere

Ane Inger Bondahl Søberg

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Forskning og innovasjon ved Sykehuset Innlandet HF
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved MF vitenskapelig høyskole for teologi, religion og samfunn

Lars Johan Danbolt

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved MF vitenskapelig høyskole for teologi, religion og samfunn
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Div Psykisk helsevern ved Sykehuset Innlandet HF

Torgeir Sørensen

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for helse ved VID vitenskapelige høgskole

Sigrid Helene Kjørven Haug

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Div Psykisk helsevern ved Sykehuset Innlandet HF
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for helse- og sykepleievitenskap ved Høgskolen i Innlandet
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