scholarly journals Who supports the psychiatric nurse? A qualitative study of the social supports that affect how psychiatric nurses cope with workplace risks and stressors

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraldine Fahy ◽  
Lisa Moran
Keyword(s):  
Physical Violence ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Workplace Performance ◽  
Workplace Stressors ◽  
High Dependency ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Research And Policy

The study focuses on how registered psychiatric nurses in a high-dependency unit in Ireland utilise informal and formal supports to cope with risk and trauma in the workplace, including threats of physical violence and verbal abuse. Increasingly, research and policy acknowledge that risk management and emotional trauma affect the workplace performance and general well-being of Registered Psychiatric Nurses. However, there is a paucity of Irish social scientific research on how psychiatric nurses negotiate informal and formal networks, to cope with workplace risks every day. Drawing on qualitative interviews, this paper ascertains how psychiatric nurses interpret everyday risks and how they draw upon support networks (e.g. family, co-workers) to cope with workplace stressors. The findings show that Registered Psychiatric Nurses who were interviewed create boundaries between informal and formal networks that help them to cope with workplace risks. Our study indicates that in this context, organisational supports are seldom used by Registered Psychiatric Nurses, even in times of crisis. A core contribution of the work is that it affirms the importance of co-workers in how Registered Psychiatric Nurses negotiate workplace risks and makes recommendations on how formal organisational supports might be improved.

Content Analysis

2014 ◽  
pp. 358-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Prior
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Semantic Networks ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Analyze Data

In this chapter, the focus is on ways in which content analysis can be used to investigate and describe interview and textual data. The chapter opens with a contextualization of the method and then proceeds to an examination of the role of content analysis in relation to both quantitative and qualitative modes of social research. Following the introductory sections, four kinds of data are subjected to content analysis. These include data derived from a sample of qualitative interviews (N = 54), textual data derived from a sample of health policy documents (N = 6), data derived from a single interview relating to a “case” of traumatic brain injury, and data gathered from 54 abstracts of academic papers on the topic of “well-being.” Using a distinctive and somewhat novel style of content analysis that calls upon the notion of semantic networks, the chapter shows how the method can be used either independently or in conjunction with other forms of inquiry (including various styles of discourse analysis) to analyze data, and also how it can be used to verify and underpin claims that arise out of analysis. The chapter ends with an overview of the different ways in which the study of “content”—especially the study of document content—can be positioned in social scientific research projects.

scholarly journals Parents’ experiences of abuse by their adult children with drug problems

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bengt Svensson ◽  
Torkel Richert ◽  
Björn Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Drug Problems ◽  
Parents Experiences ◽  
Parent Child

Aims: To examine parents’ experiences of abuse directed at them by their adult children with drug problems. Material and Method: The material consists of 32 qualitative interviews on child-to-parent abuse with 24 mothers and eight fathers. The interviewees had experienced verbal abuse (insults), emotional abuse (threats), financial abuse (damage to property and possessions) and physical abuse (physical violence). Findings: In the parents’ narratives, the parent-child interaction is dominated by the child’s destructive drug use, which the parents are trying to stop. This gives rise to conflicts and ambivalence. The parents’ accounts seem to function as explaining and justifying their children’s disruptive behavior in view of the drug use. The fact that an external factor - drugs - is blamed seems to make it easier to repair the parent-child bonds. The parents differentiate between the child who is sober and the child who is under the influence of drugs, that is, between the genuine child and the fake, unreal child. The sober child is a person that the parent likes and makes an effort for. The child who is on drugs is erratic, at times aggressive and self-destructive. Conclusions: The interviewed parents’ well-being is perceived as directly related to how their children’s lives turn out. The single most important factor in improving the parents’ situation is to find a way for their adult child to live their lives without drug problems.

Who Am I? The Social Identities of Muslim-American Adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madiha Tahseen ◽  
Charissa S.L. Cheah
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Psychological Benefits ◽  
Muslim American ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Cluster Analysis Technique

Muslim-American adolescents face unique developmental challenges, due to the national and global negative spotlight on Islam, as they navigate identity formation in the mainstream American setting. However, the intersection of various social identities (SI) in the navigation of these challenges has been ignored in much social-scientific literature. We examined the SI of Muslim-American adolescents using the multidimensional cluster analysis technique. Correlates of adolescents’ SI were also explored, specifically adolescents’ self-reported psychological well-being. One hundred and fifty Muslim adolescents were recruited from schools, mosques, and community organizations throughout Maryland. Follow-up analyses indicated that the High-Muslim/High-American adolescents reported the highest well-being and Moderate-Muslim/Undifferentiated-American cluster reported poorer well-being than the other clusters. Findings highlighted the importance of simultaneously assessing Muslim and American SIs, and the differential psychological benefits based on adolescents’ SI profiles. The article concludes by discussing implications for future research on Muslim adolescents’ successful adjustment.

Who Am I? The Social Identities of Muslim-American Adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-54
Author(s):  
Madiha Tahseen ◽  
Charissa S.L. Cheah
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Psychological Benefits ◽  
Muslim American ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Cluster Analysis Technique

Muslim-American adolescents face unique developmental challenges, due to the national and global negative spotlight on Islam, as they navigate identity formation in the mainstream American setting. However, the intersection of various social identities (SI) in the navigation of these challenges has been ignored in much social-scientific literature. We examined the SI of Muslim-American adolescents using the multidimensional cluster analysis technique. Correlates of adolescents’ SI were also explored, specifically adolescents’ self-reported psychological well-being. One hundred and fifty Muslim adolescents were recruited from schools, mosques, and community organizations throughout Maryland. Follow-up analyses indicated that the High-Muslim/High-American adolescents reported the highest well-being and Moderate-Muslim/Undifferentiated-American cluster reported poorer well-being than the other clusters. Findings highlighted the importance of simultaneously assessing Muslim and American SIs, and the differential psychological benefits based on adolescents’ SI profiles. The article concludes by discussing implications for future research on Muslim adolescents’ successful adjustment.

Sources of Support in a Sample of HIV-Affected1 Older Minority Caregivers

1998 ◽  
Vol 79 (5) ◽  
pp. 491-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia C. Poindexter ◽  
Nathan L. Linsk
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Hiv Disclosure ◽  
Care Recipient ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Hiv Diagnosis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sources Of Support

Since more and more family caregivers of persons with HIV disease are parents and grandparents, older persons may be responsible for the well-being of ill or orphaned family members at a time when they may be at risk for their own health and social losses. Re searchers conducted qualitative interviews with twenty older minority informal caregivers of HIV-infected persons to explore their experiences with seeking and receiving informal social support. There were two sources of social support: support from family and friends external to the care dyad and support from the relationship with the HIV-positive care recipient. There was very little support sought or received outside the family of the caregivers; this was primarily because their decisions about disclosing the HIV diagnosis precluded their asking for social support specific to the HIV caregiving. From the caregivers' perspective the most common source of support was not “social” or human; rather, it was strength that came from their spiritual and religious lives or from within themselves. These findings highlight the social isolation of this population, suggesting the need for more awareness and aggressive outreach from the helping professions. More research is needed to determine how decisions regarding HIV disclosure are made, how caregivers sustain support sources that are not specific to HIV caregiving, and how the strong mutual relationship with the HIV-infected care recipient affects coping and bereavement.

scholarly journals Intergenerational connections to improve social well-being of older adults with ADRD: A research protocol

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 1018-1018
Author(s):  
Ling Xu ◽  
Noelle Fields ◽  
Kathryn Daniel ◽  
Brooke Troutman ◽  
Daisha Cipher
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Research Protocol ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Matched Data

Abstract There is growing concern about social isolation, loneliness, and diminished emotional well-being among persons with ADRD who live in the community. Research suggests that reminiscence strategies, especially with the production of a digital story book, combined with an intergenerational approach may yield significant benefits for older adults. Reminiscence approaches are typically implemented by trained professionals. However, the use of trained volunteers is of growing interest due to the costs associated with reminiscence programs. This research protocol describes the development and testing of an intergenerational, telephone-based reminiscence program offered by trained, young adult volunteers that includes the use of digital storytelling (DST). Specifically, the study addresses three aims: 1) Quantitatively test the effectiveness in improving social and emotional well-being of older adults with ADRD; 2) Quantitatively test attitudes towards aging and knowledge and awareness of ADRD disease among the young adults; and (3) Qualitatively evaluate the usefulness of this intervention from perspectives of the dyads. A randomized control trial is used to assess the effects of the intervention using an explanatory sequential mixed methods design. The older and younger participants (n = 92 dyads) are randomly assigned to intervention (reminiscence) or sham (social visit) group, and then randomly matched. Data are collected at baseline, mid-intervention, post- intervention, 3 months-post intervention and through qualitative interviews (selected dyads). The proposed evaluation activities will allow us to determine the applicability of intergenerational reminiscence with DST as an effective intervention for supporting the social and emotional needs of persons with ADRD.

Content Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 539-568
Author(s):  
Lindsay Prior
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Semantic Networks ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Analyze Data

In this chapter, the focus is on ways in which content analysis can be used to investigate and describe interview and textual data. The chapter opens with a contextualization of the method and then proceeds to an examination of the role of content analysis in relation to both quantitative and qualitative modes of social research. Following the introductory sections, four kinds of data are subjected to content analysis. These include data derived from a sample of qualitative interviews (N = 54), textual data derived from a sample of health policy documents (N = 6), data derived from a single interview relating to a “case” of traumatic brain injury, and data gathered from fifty-four abstracts of academic papers on the topic of “well-being.” Using a distinctive and somewhat novel style of content analysis that calls on the notion of semantic networks, the chapter shows how the method can be used either independently or in conjunction with other forms of inquiry (including various styles of discourse analysis) to analyze data and also how it can be used to verify and underpin claims that arise from analysis. The chapter ends with an overview of the different ways in which the study of “content”—especially the study of document content—can be positioned in social scientific research projects.

“I do not Have Anything Else, Bra”: The Hardships of Day Labourers in East London, South Africa, and the Implications for Developmental Social Welfare/Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mzukisi Xweso ◽  
Derick Blaauw ◽  
Catherina Schenck
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
South African ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Informal Workers ◽  
The Social

The social work profession has seen significant changes in approach, with more focus on developmental social welfare in response to structural injustices, poverty, inequality, well-being and development. Day labouring is a global phenomenon and typical of the South African informal sector. This study analyses the hardships of day labourers in East London to reflect on developmental social welfare and its relevance for informal workers in South Africa. A sequential explanatory research design and a mixed-methods approach were adopted. In phase 1 (quantitative), 131 participants were interviewed. In the second phase qualitative interviews were conducted with 18 participants at six different hiring sites. The findings reveal that day labourers work under conditions in which even their basic human rights cannot be guaranteed. Failure to take decisive steps to ensure that their rights are upheld amounts to turning a blind eye to the gross exploitation of one segment of society by another. An inclusive, appreciative and participatory approach is needed to facilitate strategies to integrate informal workers such as day labourers into initiatives that are designed to grant social justice to groups who continue to be marginalised and to live in abject poverty more than two decades after the official demise of apartheid.

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