Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37982046›Full record

ArticleSSM. Mental health2023

"Why me?": Qualitative research on why patients ask, what they mean, how they answer and what factors and processes are involved.

Robert Klitzman

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in SSM. Mental health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Robert KlitzmanBioethics Program, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

CTSA INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCHUL1RR024156 · NCRR · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI GINSBERG, HENRY N · 2006 to 2011
$53.0M
The Statistics, Data Science, and Data Management (SDM) CoreP30MH043520 · NIMH · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC · PI Claude Ann Mellins · 2003 to 2026
$48.2M
Views of Privacy of Genetic InformationR01HG002431 · NHGRI · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE · PI KLITZMAN, ROBERT L · 2002 to 2005
$1.5M
SELF-DISCLOSURE AMONG HIV+ HEALTH CARE WORKERS &OTHERSK08MH001420 · NIMH · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI KLITZMAN, ROBERT L · 1996 to 1998
–
NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR024156NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG002431NIMH NIH HHS K08 MH001420NIMH NIH HHS P30 MH043520
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients often ask, "why me?" but questions arise regarding what this statement means, how, when and why patients ask, how they answer and why. Interviews were conducted as part of several qualitative research studies exploring how patients view and cope with various conditions, including HIV, cancer, Huntington's disease and infertility. A secondary qualitative analysis was performed. Many patients ask, "why me?" but this statement emerges as having varying meanings, and entailing complex psychosocial processes. Patients commonly recognize that this question may lack a clear answer and that asking it is irrational, but they ask nonetheless, given the roles of unknown factors and chance in disease causation, psychological stresses of illness and lack of definitive answers. Patients may focus on different aspects of the question - e.g., on possible

Indexed as

CopingDespairDisease etiologyExistential concernsPsychologySpirituality

Identifiers

PMID37982046
PMCPMC10655635

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.