<i>Choosing to Use</i>Compared to<i>Taking</i>Medication: The Meaning of Medication as Described by People Who Experience Schizophrenia

Liersch-Sumskis, Susan; Moxham, Lorna; Curtis, Janette

doi:10.1111/ppc.12072

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“…Resilience is embedded within striving to competently overcome challenges in the quest for improvement. The person then uses resilience to seek out new challenges and experiences, and to grow life in ways unrelated to just living to manage schizophrenia (Liersch‐Sumskis ).…”

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“…Mental health professionals need to support people's right to choose to use medication and advocate for medication choices that suit each individual's recovery (Liersch‐Sumskis et al . ). Resilience is embedded in the challenge of getting the medication right, including enduring setbacks, such as exacerbation of symptoms or relapse while endeavouring to find the right medication.…”

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Meaning of resilience as described by people with schizophrenia

Sumskis

Moxham

Caputi

2016

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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The aim of the present study was to understand the meaning of resilience, as described by people with schizophrenia. Building resilience is a component of recovery-oriented mental health care, and yet almost no research has been conducted into the resilience of people who live with schizophrenia and who are routinely considered vulnerable. Establishing the meaning of resilience in the context of schizophrenia is an important first step in building understanding. van Kaam's psychophenomenological method was used to interpret 14 interviews with people with schizophrenia who are currently well and living in the community. Resilience is invoked in the tension between opposing forces of challenge and support and in the act of 'striving' to take control of schizophrenia. Striving includes repeated, seemingly backwards steps, and during this, the person takes risks and seeks out and uses supportive people and resources. Those same supportive people and resources can also be challenging. Resilience is an energy embedded in the process of recovery from schizophrenia, and is manifest in an attitude of striving. Taking on challenges and engaging in risk is important within treatment and recovery from schizophrenia.

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Meaning of resilience as described by people with schizophrenia

Sumskis

Moxham

Caputi

2016

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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“…From the patient's perspective, medications represent a visible aspect of healthcare or of an underlying illness [42]. They can be symbolized as a reminder of a disease or ill health, of losing control over one's deteriorating health, or as not normal or healthy [10,23,38,42,51,52]. These notions can result in feelings of shame of personal failing [16,45,67] and feeling bad about taking too many medications [43].…”

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“…Personal responsibility is required for management of side effects [44] as well as stigma about disease and medications, and often information overload [18,62]. The long-term impact of medications is a reminder that the medication experience is continuous and changes over time [20,34,38,42,47,71].…”

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The Medication Experience: A Concept Analysis

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This is a concept analysis of the medication experience with a focus on how it applies to the pharmaceutical care practice framework used by pharmacist practitioners. The medication experience is a vital component of pharmaceutical care practice and of patient-centered care. Although the experience of taking medication has been studied across disciplines for decades, a concept analysis of the medication experience is lacking. Rodgers’ evolutionary concept analysis method was utilized. Ovid Medline, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts and Google Scholar databases, references and hand searches were used to compile an international dataset of 66 papers published from 1982 to 2020. As a result of the available literature, the medication experience is defined as one of ambivalence and vulnerability in which the patient is actively engaged in an ongoing process or negotiation, which is pragmatic to the ways in which they live and experience life, contextualized and nuanced within the social construction of their individual realities. The concept of medication experience is an important addition to the scientific literature. The definition of medication experience from the perspective of the patient will help to better explain the concept for future research and theory development to move the discipline of pharmaceutical care practice forward.

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“…In Australia, phenomenology has been used extensively in public health and nursing (e.g. Cartledge et al, 2018; King et al, 2017; Liersch-Sumskis, 2013; Watts et al, 2013). In sociology more broadly, it has been recently used to explore meanings of motherhood among teen mothers (Aparicio et al, 2015); how third culture kids transition into life in Australia (Purnell and Hoban, 2014); and Muslim civil society engagement with their communities (Amath, 2015), among others.…”

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Towards a phenomenology of poverty: Defining poverty through the lived experiences of the ‘poor’

Reeves

Parsell

Liu

2019

Journal of Sociology

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This article argues for the importance of defining poverty from the perspective of those who experience poverty. How poverty is defined and operationalised is critical to policy and academic debates, as this is intertwined with explanations, causes, and possible solutions. Yet current definitions are typically provided by the ‘non-poor’. What we lack is knowledge of whether these definitions of the concept are similar to or different from those understood and conceptualised by those experiencing poverty. Australian poverty research has typically relied on panel data, administrative data, or surveys to construct and define ‘poverty’. We propose that Australian poverty scholars embrace phenomenology as a way to highlight the voices of those experiencing poverty.

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Choosing to UseCompared toTakingMedication: The Meaning of Medication as Described by People Who Experience Schizophrenia

Abstract: Nurses need to actively work in partnership to support consumers to take an active stance toward choosing to use medication rather than ensuring consumers take medication.

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Meaning of resilience as described by people with schizophrenia

Meaning of resilience as described by people with schizophrenia

The Medication Experience: A Concept Analysis

Towards a phenomenology of poverty: Defining poverty through the lived experiences of the ‘poor’

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