- Title
- Family members’ perspectives on strengthening adherence to treatment for adult persons with a bipolar mood disorder
- Creator
- Lambert, Sarah Catherine
- Subject
- Psychiatric social work
- Subject
- Mental illness -- Treatment Manic-depressive illness -- Treatment Family counseling
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/22497
- Identifier
- vital:29980
- Description
- Family members play an important role in supporting and strengthening treatment adherence for persons with a bipolar mood disorder (BMD). Although BMD can be effectively managed on medication and with psychotherapy, treatment non-adherence is widespread; resulting in detrimental consequences for the person and the family. The purpose of this study was to enhance an understanding of how treatment adherence from a family member’s perspective could be strengthened. The theoretical framework was a combination of strengths-perspective and Family Systems Theory. This qualitative study was embedded in an exploratory-descriptive and contextual research design, and employed a non-probability, purposive sampling technique. Thirteen resident family members of adults diagnosed with a BMD were recruited as participants. The family members were adult, male or female of any ethnicity, and responsible for co-managing the treatment of the person. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with the participants and a thematic data analysis method was employed. The four themes that emerged from the data analysis include family members’ descriptions and experiences of treatment adherence and non-adherence, family members’ perspectives of general systemic factors that enhance and inhibit adherence to treatment, family members’ roles, strategies and coping mechanisms relating to the person’s treatment adherence, and family members’ suggestions on promoting treatment adherence. Data verification methods were used to ensure trustworthiness of the study. This research informs appropriate practice interventions to families that are active partners in co-managing the treatment of bipolar mood disorder.
- Format
- ix, 189 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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