ArticlePsychiatry journal2013
Struggling on my own: a cognitive perspective on frequent attenders' conception of life and their interaction with the healthcare system.
Article in Psychiatry journal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Parents' Reported Experiences When Having a Child with Cataract-Important Aspects of Self-Management Obtained from the Paediatric Cataract Register (PECARE).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Health-related quality of life among frequent attenders in Swedish primary care: a cross-sectional observational study.BMJ open · 2019Observational
- Frequent attenders in general practice and immigrant status in Norway: a nationwide cross-sectional study.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2014Article
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Abstract
Different studies reveal that a large percentage of people frequently attending healthcare not only suffer from diffuse somatic symptoms but also from psychological distress and difficulties in dealing with everyday life. Even though they are not always diagnosed with psychiatric disease, questions arise about their mental health. The study aims at describing frequent attenders' conceptions of life, and as a result their health, from a cognitive perspective. A qualitative content analysis of in-depth interviews was carried out with nine service users in primary healthcare. The findings reveal that participants experience themselves as inadequate and as being a burden for others, by whom they experience rejection, in different ways. In order to take part in community with others the person develops compensatory strategies that aim at concealing their inadequacies, thus also preventing them from sharing their suffering with others. The consequence is that the persons become even more alienated as they start to relate to others through a façade and furthermore are unable to either improve their health or obtain adequate care. It can be concluded that these patients need to be taken seriously in order to prevent further psychological suffering.
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