“They have said that I was slightly depressed but there are circumstances that bring that on”: How Middle-Aged and Older African American Men Describe Depression

Abstract

Men may have difficulty distinguishing between stress and depression and they may frame the causes of depression in ways that decrease their perceived culpability for its causes and limit their perceived control over the causes of depression.

Black men’s health-related quality of life: A qualitative study to understand community-identified perception and needs.

“…Deductive and inductive approaches were used to inform the development of the codebook (Miles et al, 2013). An initial set of codes were developed based on existing qualitative research among Black men (Cornish, Bergner, & Griffith, 2017; Ellis et al, 2015; Griffith et al, 2013, 2018; Sherman & Griffith, 2018). This initial set of codes was complemented by an inductive approach that arose from immersion in the data.…”