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ArticleInternational journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being2015

Being stuck in a vice: The process of coping with severe depression in late life.

Guro Hanevold Bjørkløf, Marit Kirkevold, Knut Engedal, Geir Selbæk, Anne-Sofie Helvik

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Article in International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Coping with depression: a narrative study of an online depression community in China.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2023
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  2. The lived experience of depression: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2023
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  3. Old man-young man: T.S. Eliot's Gerontion and the problem of identity.Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Guro Hanevold BjørkløfNorwegian National Advisory Unit on Ageing and Health, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway.
Marit KirkevoldFaculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Knut EngedalNorwegian National Advisory Unit on Ageing and Health, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway.
Geir SelbækNorwegian National Advisory Unit on Ageing and Health, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway.
Anne-Sofie HelvikNorwegian National Advisory Unit on Ageing and Health, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Articles describing older persons' experiences of coping with severe depression are, to our knowledge, lacking. This article is methodologically grounded in phenomenological hermeneutics, inspired by Paul Ricoeur, and applies a descriptive design with in-depth interviews for producing the data. We included 18 older persons, 13 women and 5 men, with a mean age of 77.9 years, depressed to a severe or moderate degree, 1-2 weeks after admission to a hospital for treatment of depression. We found the metaphor "being in a vice" to capture the essence of meaning from the participants' stories, and can be understood as being stuck in an immensely painful existence entirely dominated by depression in late life. This is the first article where coping in older men and women experiencing the most severe phase of depression is explored.

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Adaptation, PsychologicalAgedAged, 80 and overAgingFemaleHumansMajor Depressive DisorderMaleMiddle AgedNorwayQualitative ResearchQuality of LifecopingdepressionLived experienceolder people

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PMID26119368
PMCPMC4483368

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