Struck by lightning or slowly suffocating – gendered trajectories into depression

Danielsson, Ulla; Bengs, Carita; Lehti, Arja; Hammarström, Anne; Johansson, Eva

doi:10.1186/1471-2296-10-56

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“…Socioeconomic conditions that were mentioned as contributing factors for the development of men's depression included employer bankruptcy, stock market loss, or, most commonly, stressful working conditions [24,39,42] . "Men of duty" was described as a specific theme based on reports of men who saw their depression as a consequence of job overinvolvement according to male gender norm expectations of being successful -fulfilling these expectations led them simply to "collapse" [38] .…”

Section: Male Gender Normative Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Men's Views on Depression: A Systematic Review and Metasynthesis of Qualitative Research

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Background: According to the concept of “male depression,” depression among men might be underdiagnosed and undertreated because of gender differences in symptoms and coping. There is evidence that men experience atypical depressive symptoms including irritability, aggression, substance abuse, and increased risk behavior. To date, a substantial number of qualitative studies on men's views on depression has been conducted in the last few decades. Methods: Based on a systematic review and metasynthesis of qualitative studies on men's subjective perspectives on depression, we aim at a comprehensive understanding of men's subjective views on depression with a specific focus on masculinity constructions. Results: Based on 34 studies assessed as appropriate for the study, 2 overarching subthemes could be identified: normative expectations regarding masculinity ideals and men's subjective perspectives of depression as “weakness.” Men's strategies include denial of “weakness” and “closing up.” Further themes include suicide, masculinity ideals as a healthy resource, and alternative masculinities. Discussion/Conclusions: Traditional masculinity values might serve as barriers but also as facilitators to adaptive coping strategies in depressed men. More research is needed to study the dimensions and role of alternative masculinities in the context of depression.

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Section: Male Gender Normative Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Men were found to report dramatic illness courses and/ or passing a threshold of emotional pain [24,42,49,50] . Descriptions of access to acute treatment seem to serve as evidence of the severity of men's suffering in accordance with masculine ideals [26] .…”

Section: Denying Weaknessmentioning

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Men's Views on Depression: A Systematic Review and Metasynthesis of Qualitative Research

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“…On the other hand, men talked more about holding back discussions of emotional distress while being more likely to express their aggression. Women were also more focused internally with feelings of self‐blame and guilt, while men talked more about external factors that had suddenly struck them down (Danielsson et al . 2009).…”

Section: Men and Emotional Distressmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding how men experience, express and cope with mental distress: where next?

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In line with the shift towards prioritising lay accounts and narratives of chronic illness in sociology, there is an emerging literature on men, their subjectivities and experiences of mental distress. We argue in this paper that subjectivities and distress among men are an important area for critical sociological research. Very little is known about men's subjectivities or the meanings they give to -and how they cope with or seek help for -distress. At the same time, current theories of gender relations, performativity and wellbeing as they pertain to men are likely to shed further light on subjectivity and distress. However, current theories (and qualitative research involving men and women) are pointing to considerable complexity. In this paper, we outline what is known about distress and men, and consider the utility of gender relations, performativity, subjectivities and wellbeing for a better understanding of distress. We also ask: What other factors influence distress, and how should these be considered in relation to men and masculinities? What are the implications for research and policy?

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“…cardiac or renal, but also to the various treatments and therapies. In response to Q5, T2 was thus related to research: in disease studies [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37], to compare care and coding [38][39][40], but also in monitoring of patients over time and the survival rate [31,[41][42][43][44]. Survival rate forms part of a trajectory concept.…”

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Patient healthcare trajectory. An essential monitoring tool: a systematic review

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Azé

Bringay

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Health Inf Sci Syst

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Background: Patient healthcare trajectory is a recent emergent topic in the literature, encompassing broad concepts. However, the rationale for studying patients' trajectories, and how this trajectory concept is defined remains a public health challenge. Our research was focused on patients' trajectories based on disease management and care, while also considering medico-economic aspects of the associated management. We illustrated this concept with an example: a myocardial infarction (MI) occurring in a patient's hospital trajectory of care. The patient follow-up was traced via the prospective payment system. We applied a semi-automatic text mining process to conduct a comprehensive review of patient healthcare trajectory studies. This review investigated how the concept of trajectory is defined, studied and what it achieves.Methods: We performed a PubMed search to identify reports that had been published in peer-reviewed journals between January 1, 2000 and October 31, 2015. Fourteen search questions were formulated to guide our review. A semi-automatic text mining process based on a semantic approach was performed to conduct a comprehensive review of patient healthcare trajectory studies. Text mining techniques were used to explore the corpus in a semantic perspective in order to answer non-a priori questions. Complementary review methods on a selected subset were used to answer a priori questions.Results: Among the 33,514 publications initially selected for analysis, only 70 relevant articles were semi-automatically extracted and thoroughly analysed. Oncology is particularly prevalent due to its already well-established processes of care. For the trajectory thema, 80% of articles were distributed in 11 clusters. These clusters contain distinct semantic information, for example health outcomes (29%), care process (26%) and administrative and financial aspects (16%). Conclusion:This literature review highlights the recent interest in the trajectory concept. The approach is also gradually being used to monitor trajectories of care for chronic diseases such as diabetes, organ failure or coronary artery and MI trajectory of care, to improve care and reduce costs. Patient trajectory is undoubtedly an essential approach to be further explored in order to improve healthcare monitoring.

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Struck by lightning or slowly suffocating – gendered trajectories into depression

Cited by 29 publications

References 36 publications

Men's Views on Depression: A Systematic Review and Metasynthesis of Qualitative Research

Men's Views on Depression: A Systematic Review and Metasynthesis of Qualitative Research

Understanding how men experience, express and cope with mental distress: where next?

Patient healthcare trajectory. An essential monitoring tool: a systematic review

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