探索军人家庭的痛苦生活经验:质量检查
Samantha Noyek1, Tatiana Lund1, Abbie Jordan2
1Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
The journal of pain
|July 20, 2023
概括
加拿大军人家庭面临高率的慢性疼痛和心理健康问题. 军事文化显著塑造了所有家庭成员如何体验和感知疼痛,影响了弹性.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 军人卫生保健 军人卫生保健
背景情况:
- 加拿大退伍军人经历的慢性疼痛是一般人口的两倍.
- 退伍军人中精神健康问题的高患病率对他们的孩子的福祉构成风险.
- 疼痛治疗和军事文化对疼痛的影响是加拿大退伍军人的主要优先事项.
研究的目的:
- 探索加拿大武装部队家庭内痛苦的经历.
- 了解军事文化如何影响家庭的疼痛感知和表达.
- 确定影响受疼痛影响的军人家庭恢复能力的因素.
主要方法:
- 与加拿大武装部队成员/退伍军人,青年和配偶进行了35次半结构化的定性访谈.
- 收集的人口统计信息,包括年龄,性别和种族.
- 利用反射的主题分析来识别参与者的经验中的关键主题.
主要成果:
- 92%的退伍军人参与者报告经历了慢性疼痛.
- 出现了四个主要主题:军事思维和身份,家庭中的痛苦文化,心理健康和疼痛的不可分割性,以及打破循环的策略.
- 军事文化和身份深刻地塑造了这些家庭内的痛苦表达和经验.
结论:
- 军事文化对加拿大军事家庭的所有成员如何体验和感知疼痛起着至关重要的作用.
- 研究结果强调需要对疼痛管理和心理健康支持采取文化敏感的方法.
- 这项研究可以为未来的干预措施提供信息,旨在促进加拿大军人家庭面临慢性疼痛的弹性.
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