A Qualitative Research Approach to Psychosocial Well-Being and Mental Health of Individuals in Marital and in Family Relationships in Pre- and Post-genocide Rwanda

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-38
Author(s):  
Immaculée Mukashema ◽  
Joseph Gumira Hahirwa ◽  
Alexandre Hakizamungu ◽  
Lambert Havugintwari
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Approach

scholarly journals Participation in community gardening: Sowing the seeds of well-being

2021 ◽  
pp. 000841742199438
Author(s):  
Melinda J. Suto ◽  
Shelagh Smith ◽  
Natasha Damiano ◽  
Shurli Channe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Supported Housing ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Community Gardening ◽  
Mental Health Issues

Background. Sustaining well-being challenges people with serious mental health issues. Community gardening is an occupation used to promote clients’ well-being, yet there is limited evidence to support this intervention. Purpose. This paper examines how facilitated community gardening programs changed the subjective well-being and social connectedness of people living with mental health issues. Method. A community-based participatory research approach and qualitative methods were used with 23 adults living in supported housing and participating in supported community gardening programs. A constructivist approach guided inductive data analysis. Findings. Participation in community gardening programs enhanced well-being through welcoming places, a sense of belonging, and developing positive feelings through doing. The connection to living things and responsibility for plants grounded participants in the present and offered a unique venue for learning about gardening and themselves. Implications. Practitioners and service-users should collaborate to develop leadership, programs, places, and processes within community gardens to enhance well-being.

scholarly journals Spiritual Well-Being and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Coppola ◽  
Nadia Rania ◽  
Rosa Parisi ◽  
Francesca Lagomarsino
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Coping Resources ◽  
Stress Factors ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Spiritual Well Being

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, people and families experienced a new and sudden situation that forced them to stay in their homes for a long period (February 25- May 26). In this context, many people found themselves in great difficulty, not only because of the fear of contagion or the economic problems deriving from the closure of production activities but also because the virus profoundly changed the way of life in society. The “Social distancing” concept became central in all personal relationships, including close family relationships. In this situation, our paper seeks to understand the role of spirituality and religiosity in reacting to this difficult situation and in particular on the physical and psychological health of the people involved. The data we present here are part of a multidisciplinary research with a quantitative theoretical framework. As the data was collected during the first Italian lockdown, a total of 1,250 adults from all over Italy participated in the on-line questionnaire. Among the main results it emerged that the participants perceived lower levels of spiritual well-being and mental health than the pre-pandemic situation with a significant gender difference; in fact, women perceived lower mental health than men. At the same time, it is evident that spirituality and religious practices are a protective factor connected not only with psychological and mental but also physical health. Finally, it appears evident that the family is a protective factor with respect to mental health, even in a period so full of stress factors, those who did not live alone and especially those who had to take care of small children reported higher perceived mental health and a greater ability to activate coping resources.

scholarly journals Case Studies in the Culture of Professional Football Players and Mental Welfare and Wellbeing

2020 ◽  
pp. 325-329
Author(s):  
Michael Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Well Being

AbstractThis chapter draws on the author’s personal experience together with the findings from his qualitative research, to explore the cultural values driving problems of mental health and well-being among professional footballers. The study makes explicit the way in which players are expected to hide their experiences of being objectified—of being subject to gendered, racialised and other forms of dehumanisation—and denied a legitimate lived experience, an authentic heard voice. The chapter illustrates the importance in values-based practice of knowledge of values gained as in this instance by way of qualitative methods from the social sciences being used to fill out knowledge derived from individual personal experience.

scholarly journals Urban environment and mental health: the NAMED project, protocol for a mixed-method study

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. e031963
Author(s):  
Laura Lauwers ◽  
Sonia Trabelsi ◽  
Ingrid Pelgrims ◽  
Hilde Bastiaens ◽  
Eva De Clercq ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Residential Environment ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Wide Audience

IntroductionMental health issues appear as a growing problem in modern societies and tend to be more frequent in big cities. Where increased evidence exists for positive links between nature and mental health, associations between urban environment characteristics and mental health are still not well understood. These associations are highly complex and require an interdisciplinary and integrated research approach to cover the broad range of mitigating factors. This article presents the study protocol of a project called Nature Impact on Mental Health Distribution that aims to generate a comprehensive understanding of associations between mental health and the urban residential environment.Methods and analysisFollowing a mixed-method approach, this project combines quantitative and qualitative research. In the quantitative part, we analyse among the Brussels urban population associations between the urban residential environment and mental health, taking respondents’ socioeconomic status and physical health into account. Mental health is determined by the mental health indicators in the national Health Interview Survey (HIS). The urban residential environment is described by subjective indicators for the participant’s dwelling and neighbourhood present in the HIS and objective indicators for buildings, network infrastructure and green environment developed for the purpose of this project. We assess the mediating role of physical activity, social life, noise and air pollution. In the qualitative part, we conduct walking interviews with Brussels residents to record their subjective well-being in association with their neighbourhood. In the validation part, results from these two approaches are triangulated and evaluated through interviews and focus groups with stakeholders of healthcare and urban planning sectors.Ethics and disseminationThe Privacy Commission of Belgium and ethical committee from University Hospital of Antwerp respectively approved quantitative database merging and qualitative interviewing. We will share project results with a wide audience including the scientific community, policy authorities and civil society through scientific and non-expert communication.

scholarly journals Family trouble: Heteronormativity, emotion work and queer youth mental health

2019 ◽  
pp. 136345931986057 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth McDermott ◽  
Jacqui Gabb ◽  
Rachael Eastham ◽  
Ali Hanbury
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Youth Mental Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
Lgbtq Youth ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Queer Youth ◽  
Health And Well Being

Conflict with the family about sexual orientation and gender diversity is a key risk factor associated with poor mental health in youth populations. Findings presented here derive from a UK study that employed an interdisciplinary critical mental health approach that de-pathologised emotional distress and conceptualised families as social and affective units that are created through everyday practices. Our aim was to explore how family relationships foster, maintain or harm the mental health and well-being of LGBTQ+ youth. Data were generated through exploratory visual, creative and digital qualitative methods in two phases. Phase 1 involved digital/paper emotion maps and interviews with LGBTQ+ youth aged 16 to 25 (n = 12) and family member/mentor interviews (n = 7). Phase 2 employed diary methods and follow-up interviews (n = 9). The data analytic strategy involved three stages: individual case analysis, cross-sectional thematic analysis and meta-interpretation. We found that family relationships impacted queer youth mental health in complex ways that were related to the establishment of their autonomous queer selves, the desire to remain belonging to their family and the need to maintain a secure environment. The emotion work involved in navigating identity, belonging and security was made difficult because of family heteronormativity, youth autonomy and family expectations, and had a stark impact on queer youth mental health and well-being. Improving the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth requires a much deeper understanding of the emotionality of family relationships and the difficulties negotiating these as a young person.

scholarly journals GAMBARAN PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING PADA PRIA PENSIUNAN PEGAWAI NEGERI SIPIL STRUKTURAL YANG MENJADI TULANG PUNGGUNG KELUARGA

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Ritma Trisusanti ◽  
Satiningsih Satiningsih
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Good Condition ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
Job Rank

The purpose of this study was to reveal psychological well-being of structural civil servants who have retired and become the backbone of their families. This study used a qualitative research approach with a phenomenological method. The subjects involved in this study were two retired male of structural civil public servant who were aged no more than 59 years old and who have different latest job rank and position. The results of this study indicated that both subjects have a good condition of psychological well-being, with each dynamic that not differ too much from each other. There are several factors that play a role in their psychological well-being condition, including adequate financial source, the existence of productive or social activities carried out after the retirement and the religiousity factors.Abstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mencari tahu gambaran psychological well-being pria pensiunan Pegawai Negeri Sipil struktural yang menjadi tulang punggung keluarga. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan penelitian kualitatif dengan tipe penelitian fenomenologis. Partisipan yang terlibat dalam penelitian ini adalah dua orang pria pensiunan Pegawai Negeri Sipil struktural yang berusia tidak lebih dari 59 tahun yang memiliki pangkat dan jabatan terakhir yang berbeda. Teknik analisis data dilakukan dengan beberapa cara, antara lain organisasi data, koding dan analisis, serta analisis intra kasus dan analisis lintas kasus. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa kedua partisipan memiliki kondisi psychological well-being yang baik, dengan dinamika yang tidak berbeda jauh satu sama lain. Terdapat beberapa faktor yang berperan dalam kondisi psychological well-being kedua partisipan tersebut, antara lain sumber finansial yang memadai, adanya kegiatan produktif atau sosial yang dilakukan setelah pensiun dan faktor religiusitas.

scholarly journals ATENÇÃO PSICOSSOCIAL E SATISFAÇÃO NO TRABALHO: PROCESSOS DIALÉTICOS NA SAÚDE MENTAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Mara Cristina Ribeiro ◽  
Alice Correia Barros ◽  
Marinho Da Silva Correia ◽  
Rebeca De Oliveira Lessa ◽  
Lucas Nascimento Tavares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Health Personnel ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Psychosocial Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Care Model ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Categorical Analysis

Introdução: O modelo de atenção psicossocial tem exigido profissionais comprometidos com um novo paradigma de cuidado que traz novos e diferentes desafios, podendo gerar nos trabalhadores satisfação, insatisfação, bem como outros sentimentos que envolvem a efetivação das novas propostas. A satisfação ou a insatisfação com o trabalho incorre em consequências que podem ser fonte de alegria e bem-estar ou acarretar prejuízos à saúde do trabalhador e à qualidade do serviço prestado. Objetivo: A pesquisa teve como objetivo conhecer e analisar a satisfação e outros sentimentos gerados no exercício do trabalho nos Centros de Atenção Psicossocial. Método: Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa desenvolvida com 19 trabalhadores de nível superior representantes de 04 serviços de uma capital do Nordeste. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas e analisados com base na Análise Categorial. Resultados: A identificação com a área, a motivação em aprofundar seus conhecimentos e os bons resultados alcançados com as novas propostas de cuidado aparecem como determinantes para que o trabalhador se sinta satisfeito. No entanto, constatou-se que os profissionais se deparam cotidianamente com problemas que foram associados à geração de insatisfações e outros sentimentos como angústia, incapacidade, tristeza e frustração. Conclusão: As questões levantadas sugerem necessidade de maiores investimentos nesses serviços, capacitações dos profissionais, ampliação e diversificação da rede de atenção psicossocial para garantir satisfação no exercício do trabalho e na qualidade da assistência prestada.Palavras-chave: Saúde mental. Serviços de Saúde Mental. Pessoal de Saúde. Satisfação no Emprego. Pesquisa Qualitativa. ABSTRACT: Introduction: The psychosocial care model has required professionals committed to a new care paradigm that brings new and different challenges, which can generate satisfaction in workers, dissatisfaction, and other feelings that involve the execution of the new proposals. The satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the work incurs consequences that can be a source of joy and well-being or cause damage to workers' health and quality of service. Objective: The objective was to identify and analyze the satisfaction and other feelings generated in the performance of work in Psychosocial Care Centers. Method: This is a qualitative research conducted with 19 top-level workers representatives from 04 of the capital of Northeast services. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed based on Categorical Analysis. Results: Identification with the area, the motivation to deepen their knowledge and the good results achieved with the new care proposals appear as decisive for the worker to feel satisfied. However, it was found that professionals are faced daily with problems that were associated with the generation of dissatisfactions and other feelings such as anxiety, failure, sadness and frustration. Conclusion: The issues raised suggest the need for greater investment in these services, training of professionals, expansion and diversification of psychosocial care network to ensure satisfaction in work performance and quality of care.Keywords: Mental Health. Mental Health Services. Health Personnel. Job Satisfaction. Qualitative Research.

scholarly journals Kalesang dorp in Context De bouw van Village

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Chairul Basrun Umanailo
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
Innovative Program ◽  
Regional Leaders ◽  
The Village

Kalesang Village is an innovative program of regional leaders to improve the well-being and economic standard of rural communities, a strong desire to involve the entire community comes together in assisting the implementation of the village. Objective examined Kalesang Village solely for reviewing how far the success of the program was to the community in rural development. In research and studies conducted using qualitative research approach to strengthen and formalize the findings of the field. That what has been done in the village of Kalesang Program evokes patronage and downstream program where community involvement is not the result of consciousness has awakened, but because of problems of bureaucratic structures that create dependence on the direction of companion gave birth to participation this village working units (SKPD). The most important thing that is related to indicator of success and engagement that is not that perceived can be found needs no improvement and changes in patterns of approach and implementation in the field

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