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Mental health promotion as perceived by Norwegian adolescents with somatically ill parents - an interpretative
Nina Helen Mjøsund1, Torill Eide2, Elin Kufås1
1Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, Drammen, Norway.
Objective:
Having a somatically ill parent can influence adolescents' daily lives and mental health. This study aimed to explore the lived experiences of mental health promotion among adolescents with a somatically ill parent, based on a salutogenic orientation.
Methods:
Individual interviews with 11 adolescents (13-18 years of age) with a somatically ill parent were conducted. The data were analysed according to interpretative phenomenological analysis.
Results:
A superordinate theme, feeling at home in a house of mental health-promoting conversations, frames the participants' perceptions of a prominent mental health promotion experience, including decisive characteristics of the significant conversation partners and different important conversation contexts. The metaphor of feeling at home expresses that the participants ascribe the conversations taking place there as promoting mental health. The themes elucidate the superordinate theme: (a) significant conversation partners characterised by the three subthemes: (i) being available, (ii) being competent and (iii) being caring and (b) rooms reflecting conversation contexts containing four subthemes: (i) room of increased knowledge, (ii) room of disclosure, (iii) room for meeting points and (iv) room for breaks.
Conclusion:
Adolescents with a somatically ill parent perceived that conversations about important topics with significant others with special characteristics in distinct contexts promoted mental health.
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