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Creating Life Amidst Death: The Lived Experience of Medical Professionals Performing Posthumous Sperm Retrieval. 在死亡中创造生命：医学专业人员进行死后精子提取的生活经验。

IF 2.4 2区医学

Qualitative Health Research Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1177/10497323261440843

Michal Mahat-Shamir, Yael Doft, Ronit D Leichtentritt, Shani Pitcho

{"title":"Creating Life Amidst Death: The Lived Experience of Medical Professionals Performing Posthumous Sperm Retrieval.","authors":"Michal Mahat-Shamir, Yael Doft, Ronit D Leichtentritt, Shani Pitcho","doi":"10.1177/10497323261440843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323261440843","url":null,"abstract":"Posthumous sperm retrieval (PHSR) situates fertility clinicians at the paradoxical intersection of medical practice: creating the possibility of life during encounters with the dead. Little is known about how practitioners navigate the tension between professional duty and human vulnerability in such an extreme context. To address this research gap, in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 Israeli medical professionals (physicians, embryologists, and laboratory staff) directly involved in PHSR during a period of heightened national loss. Interpretative phenomenological analysis revealed cyclical psychological shifting between three themes: detachment, breaches, and connection. Detachment was initiated through technical framing, selective attention, and intentional imaginative devices, enabling task performance under emotional strain. Breaches in detachment emerged via sensory or symbolic intrusions-a glimpse of a face or name, media coverage, or contact with bereaved families-that punctured the defensive scaffolding, thereby re-humanizing the deceased. Connection followed, ranging from acts of meaning-making to empathic attunement to families' needs, before practitioners ultimately re-asserted distancing mechanisms in order to resume their work. Interpreted through an integrative framework that bridges Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the lived body with Winnicott's concept of holding, these oscillations reflect an ethic of ambivalence in which professional functionality and humanity are jointly sustained. Findings underscore needed institutional normalization of emotional reflexivity and support of clinicians' capacity to \"hold\" death while enabling life. The study extends scholarship on posthumous reproduction and medical humanities by articulating the lived dynamics through which care remains possible in existentially charged clinical contexts.","PeriodicalId":48437,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Health Research","volume":" ","pages":"10497323261440843"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147785864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reflections on Methodological Approaches to Dyad Interviews With Patients With Cognitive Impairment and Their Care Partners. 对认知障碍患者及其护理伙伴二元访谈方法的思考。

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Qualitative Health Research Pub Date : 2026-04-20 DOI: 10.1177/10497323261439579

Laura J Zibley, Maren S G Henderson, Rebecca C Rossom, Leah R Hanson, Bethany K Crouse, Ann M Werner, Patrick J O'Connor, Heidi L Ekstrom, Meghan M JaKa

{"title":"Reflections on Methodological Approaches to Dyad Interviews With Patients With Cognitive Impairment and Their Care Partners.","authors":"Laura J Zibley, Maren S G Henderson, Rebecca C Rossom, Leah R Hanson, Bethany K Crouse, Ann M Werner, Patrick J O'Connor, Heidi L Ekstrom, Meghan M JaKa","doi":"10.1177/10497323261439579","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10497323261439579","url":null,"abstract":"Qualitative research that prioritizes the voice of individuals with cognitive impairment (CI) is critical to better understand the diversity and nuances of care experiences of this population. Yet, challenges to conducting qualitative studies, specifically semi-structured interviews, exist with individuals with CI. This manuscript describes the rapid qualitative approach used to design, conduct, and analyze dyad phone interviews with individuals with CI and their care partners. We also reflect on the benefits and challenges of using a rapid approach with this population and discuss recommendations for future research. Overall, these methods were successful in gathering data to answer research questions in an efficient and pragmatic way. Future recommendations include partnering with clinical content area experts who can provide guidance on all phases of the study, as well as utilizing rapid qualitative analysis methods to make research with individuals with CI more feasible for a wider range of researchers.","PeriodicalId":48437,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Health Research","volume":" ","pages":"10497323261439579"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147724243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Role of Qualitative Research in Progression Decision-Making in Mixed-Methods Pilot and Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trials: A Scoping Review. 定性研究在混合方法试点和可行性随机对照试验进展决策中的作用：范围综述。

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Qualitative Health Research Pub Date : 2026-04-18 DOI: 10.1177/10497323261431142

Matilda Björklund, Nicola Cornwall, Melanie Ann Holden, Clare Jinks

{"title":"The Role of Qualitative Research in Progression Decision-Making in Mixed-Methods Pilot and Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trials: A Scoping Review.","authors":"Matilda Björklund, Nicola Cornwall, Melanie Ann Holden, Clare Jinks","doi":"10.1177/10497323261431142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323261431142","url":null,"abstract":"Pilot and feasibility randomized controlled trials (RCTs) help determine whether to proceed to a full-scale trial and identify necessary modifications. Qualitative research embedded in these trials can offer insight into feasibility, acceptability, and implementation of interventions, which is not always evident through quantitative data alone. It remains unclear how qualitative findings have influenced decisions to progress to full-scale RCTs. A scoping review was conducted, guided by Joanna Briggs Institute methodology. MEDLINE was searched for pilot and feasibility RCTs of health intervention published between 2017 and 2022 in four target journals, focusing on those using qualitative research to inform progression decision-making. Eligible studies were published in English with freely available full-text results. Titles and abstracts were screened independently by two reviewers, with full texts screened by one reviewer and a random 20% sample double-screened by a second reviewer. Data were extracted on trial characteristics, progression criteria, qualitative methods, and decision-making processes. Of the 932 records screened, 69 trials (across 94 publications) met inclusion criteria. Two approaches to using qualitative research in progression decision-making were identified: the application of prespecified progression criteria and the integration of qualitative and quantitative data. Of 18 trials which reported prespecified progression criteria, five included qualitative progression criteria. Eight trials employed mixed-methods integration techniques. Three used both integration techniques and qualitative progression criteria. The findings highlight limited but promising examples of meaningful integration. Clearer guidance is needed to support the consistent and transparent use of qualitative research in informing progression decisions in pilot and feasibility RCTs.","PeriodicalId":48437,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Health Research","volume":" ","pages":"10497323261431142"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147724258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sitting in the Soup - Negotiating the Challenges of Being an Insider in Qualitative Health Research. 坐在汤里——在定性健康研究中作为内部人士的挑战谈判。

IF 2.4 2区医学

Qualitative Health Research Pub Date : 2026-04-18 DOI: 10.1177/10497323261439621

Tara J Lal

{"title":"Sitting in the Soup - Negotiating the Challenges of Being an Insider in Qualitative Health Research.","authors":"Tara J Lal","doi":"10.1177/10497323261439621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323261439621","url":null,"abstract":"Insider research refers to research conducted by individuals who are members of the group being studied. This reflexive article explores the personal and methodological journey of being an insider researcher investigating firefighters' experiences of suicide exposure, while being both an active firefighter and someone with lived experience of suicide bereavement. Through first-person narrative, the article traces evolution from positivist certainty to embracing the metaphor of 'sitting in the soup' of uncertainty as essential to skilled insider research. Drawing on Consoli's life capital framework and affect theory scholarship, the article demonstrates how healing from personal trauma became a methodological prerequisite, enabling conscious engagement with the affective entanglement inherent in insider positioning. Central to this approach is recognition that reflexivity must operate as core practice prior to and throughout the entire research process. The article proposes that insider positioning is paradoxical and dynamic rather than fixed, and that thorough self-knowledge transforms embedded subjectivity from methodological liability into epistemological strength. When conducted with sophisticated reflexive competence, insider research enables deeper, more nuanced understanding of human experience while maintaining academic rigour.","PeriodicalId":48437,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Health Research","volume":" ","pages":"10497323261439621"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147724265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Power and Ethics in Peer Research With Young People: A Critical Review of the Health and Social Work Literature. 青少年同伴研究中的权力和伦理：对健康和社会工作文献的批判性回顾。

IF 2.4 2区医学

Qualitative Health Research Pub Date : 2026-04-18 DOI: 10.1177/10497323261430246

Hattie Lowe, Silvie Bovarnick, Clare Bangirana, Jenevieve Mannell, Audrey Prost

{"title":"Power and Ethics in Peer Research With Young People: A Critical Review of the Health and Social Work Literature.","authors":"Hattie Lowe, Silvie Bovarnick, Clare Bangirana, Jenevieve Mannell, Audrey Prost","doi":"10.1177/10497323261430246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323261430246","url":null,"abstract":"Peer research, where individuals with lived experience adopt the role of researcher, is increasingly used in studies with young people, particularly on sensitive topics and with marginalised groups. It is valued for its potential to reduce power imbalances and generate rich data. However, conceptual and theoretical gaps remain, particularly concerning ethical complexities and power dynamics. This critical review examines how peer research with young people is conceptualised and implemented in health and social work literature. A systematic search yielded 54 studies involving young people (aged 10-24) as peer researchers. Data were analysed using a two-stage thematic coding process. Most studies were conducted in high-income settings and focused on topics such as sexual health, homelessness, care, and violence. While many cited benefits like stronger rapport and data quality, few engaged deeply with ethical or power-related challenges. Strategies such as relationship-building, role definition, and open communication helped mitigate adult-young people power imbalances. However, power dynamics amongst young people themselves were rarely addressed. Ethical concerns, particularly regarding confidentiality and safeguarding, were amplified in peer research, and personal connections to the research topic introduced a heightened emotional toll on young people, which could be mitigated through strategies such as trauma-informed approaches. Peer research offers significant potential for the meaningful engagement of young people in research, but should not be assumed as inherently safe or power neutral. Greater reflexivity, theoretical grounding, and context-specific ethical planning are essential. We conclude with guiding questions to support researchers in making impactful decisions about employing peer research.","PeriodicalId":48437,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Health Research","volume":" ","pages":"10497323261430246"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147724180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Lived Responsibility in Encounters With Service Users-A Phenomenological Study of Municipal Caseworkers in Allocation Offices. 与服务使用者相遇时的生活责任——对市立社工的现象学研究。

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Qualitative Health Research Pub Date : 2026-04-18 DOI: 10.1177/10497323261431662

Nina Marie Solberg

{"title":"Lived Responsibility in Encounters With Service Users-A Phenomenological Study of Municipal Caseworkers in Allocation Offices.","authors":"Nina Marie Solberg","doi":"10.1177/10497323261431662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323261431662","url":null,"abstract":"This phenomenological study explores how responsibility is lived in everyday encounters by municipal caseworkers in a Norwegian allocation office. These professionals assess applications for health and care services from people living with illness, disability, or psychosocial challenges, often in situations marked by uncertainty, vulnerability, and limited possibilities for resolution. Drawing on van Manen's phenomenology of practice, in-depth interviews were conducted and worked into phenomenological anecdotes that attend closely to concrete moments of lived experience. Rather than approaching responsibility as accountability or role-based duty, the analysis explores how responsibility is encountered and carried in practice, prior to reflection and beyond procedural resolution. The phenomenological accounts bring forward situations in which responsibility appears as bodily weight, quiet presence, fragile openness, and lingering silence. Across these moments, responsibility shows itself not primarily as something done or decided, but as something lived in posture, atmosphere, and relational attunement. By attending to these subtle and often overlooked textures of professional life, the study illuminates how responsibility is carried in frontline municipal casework and invites reflection on how such lived responsibilities might be better recognized and supported in health and care services.","PeriodicalId":48437,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Health Research","volume":" ","pages":"10497323261431662"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147724226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Termination of a Wanted Pregnancy: Emotional Attachment and Loss in Second-Trimester Abortion Following Prenatal Diagnosis. 终止想要的妊娠：产前诊断后妊娠中期流产的情感依恋和损失。

IF 2.4 2区医学

Qualitative Health Research Pub Date : 2026-04-15 DOI: 10.1177/10497323261438272

Marianne Kjelsvik, Eva Gjengedal, Kaya Cetin, Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland

{"title":"Termination of a Wanted Pregnancy: Emotional Attachment and Loss in Second-Trimester Abortion Following Prenatal Diagnosis.","authors":"Marianne Kjelsvik, Eva Gjengedal, Kaya Cetin, Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland","doi":"10.1177/10497323261438272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323261438272","url":null,"abstract":"The advancement of prenatal diagnostics has led to an increase in discoveries of serious fetal conditions. Expecting parents are faced with having to make decisions regarding termination within short timeframes and strict regulations. This article phenomenologically explores women's experiences of considering, applying for, and undergoing second-trimester abortion. Ten women whose pregnancies were terminated between 17th and 22nd week due to serious fetal conditions were interviewed. The experiences are elaborated through four themes: Critical choices in compressed timeframes, Changes in emotional attachment, Moments of no return, and A demanding and lonely grieving process. Although all the women felt they had made the right decision, their experiences varied. In different ways, the abortion process left traumatic marks on their lives. They had to enter new and awkward relationships with healthcare providers in unfamiliar surroundings and experienced significant bodily changes. Their expectations were transformed into feelings of alienation both toward their own body and the fetus. Disruption between the body and the outside world left them without any constructive means to resolve their situation. Their situation was worsened by healthcare providers who were unable to meet their grief. Grief became somewhat more bearable when the women could see and hold the dead fetus, provided it was presented in a dignified manner. Without any follow-up, the women were left alone to make sense of their grief. The article underscores the need to acknowledge that women may experience abortion as a loss and for sensitive care that recognizes shifting emotional attachments throughout the process.","PeriodicalId":48437,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Health Research","volume":" ","pages":"10497323261438272"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147692830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Coordinating Medication Information Across Primary and Specialized Care: An Ethnographic Study of Health Professionals' Work and Use of Digital Tools. 协调初级和专业护理的药物信息：卫生专业人员工作和使用数字工具的民族志研究。

IF 2.4 2区医学

Qualitative Health Research Pub Date : 2026-04-15 DOI: 10.1177/10497323261433815

Stine Agnete Ingebrigtsen, Line Lundvoll Warth

{"title":"Coordinating Medication Information Across Primary and Specialized Care: An Ethnographic Study of Health Professionals' Work and Use of Digital Tools.","authors":"Stine Agnete Ingebrigtsen, Line Lundvoll Warth","doi":"10.1177/10497323261433815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323261433815","url":null,"abstract":"Coordination among health professionals across levels of care is essential for safe treatment, yet fragmented digital systems complicate the obtaining and sharing of patients' medication information. This ethnographic study explores how medication information is coordinated in everyday work and how tools are involved. We observed 145 hours of work and conducted 24 interviews with physicians, pharmacists, and nurses in Norwegian primary and specialized care. Data were analyzed thematically, informed by sociocultural and boundary work perspectives. We found that coordination is continuous, situated work that can be supported, but not replaced, by digital tools. The observed health professionals engaged in both competitive and collaborative boundary work. Competitive strategies (disengagement, opposing established responsibilities, and delegating work tasks) rendered coordination of medication information \"dirty work.\" Collaborative strategies (requesting information, cleaning up, and preventing discrepancies) restored alignment and enabled the sharing of accurate information. Digital medication lists operated as boundary objects: they facilitated the sharing of patients' medication use but sometimes failed to align perspectives, contributing to fragmentation and the construction of \"dirty work.\" Conceptually, we extend boundary work understandings by documenting the defense against jurisdiction as a competitive strategy and by demonstrating how this boundary work may produce \"dirty work.\" This study thus contributes to understanding the interplay between structural fragmentation, professional practices, and digital tools in healthcare coordination. Policy and system design should recognize and support the boundary work that enables the coordination of medication information.","PeriodicalId":48437,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Health Research","volume":" ","pages":"10497323261433815"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147692888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Managing Suicidality: The Experiences of Canadian-Based Racialized Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (GBTQ) Men. 管理自杀：加拿大同性恋、双性恋、变性人和酷儿（GBTQ）男性的经历。

IF 2.4 2区医学

Qualitative Health Research Pub Date : 2026-04-10 DOI: 10.1177/10497323261427185

Calvin C Fernandez, Trevor Goodyear, Mark Gilbert, John L Oliffe

{"title":"Managing Suicidality: The Experiences of Canadian-Based Racialized Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (GBTQ) Men.","authors":"Calvin C Fernandez, Trevor Goodyear, Mark Gilbert, John L Oliffe","doi":"10.1177/10497323261427185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323261427185","url":null,"abstract":"The interconnections of multiple minority stress and masculinities diversely operate to impact racialized gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GBTQ) men's mental health outcomes. However, limited research has explored the connections to racialized GBTQ men's suicidality within Canadian contexts. Guided by interpretive descriptive methodology and using virtual photovoice methods, the current study addresses this gap by drawing on the narratives of 26 Canadian-based racialized GBTQ men. Using constant comparison analytics, three interconnected themes were inductively derived: (i) suppressing isolation and emotional pain, (ii) processing the underbelly of suicidality, and (iii) building mental health strategies. In suppressing isolation and emotional pain, participants spoke to a lack of social support and capacity to fully deal with their suicidality. In this context, distracting themselves from suicidal thoughts was used as a means for staying alive. In processing the underbelly of suicidality, participants reflexively interrogated an array of marginalizing experiences and inequities, with the goal to better understand and waylay their suicidal thoughts. Lastly, in building mental health strategies, participants engaged professional and/or relational supports to sustainably manage and mitigate their suicidality risks in the long term. These findings provide crucial insights for tailoring culturally and gender-responsive mental health promotion and suicide prevention programs that can help racialized GBTQ men manage their suicidality and bolster their mental health resilience in the long term.","PeriodicalId":48437,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Health Research","volume":" ","pages":"10497323261427185"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147655201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Resistance Among Youths With Mental Illnesses in China in the Context of Parent-Child Relationships: The Integration of Modern and Postmodern Perspectives. 亲子关系背景下中国青少年精神疾病患者的抗拒：现代与后现代视角的整合。

IF 2.4 2区医学

Qualitative Health Research Pub Date : 2026-04-09 DOI: 10.1177/10497323261424741

Xuan Gao, Siu Ming To, Yuhan Zhao

{"title":"Resistance Among Youths With Mental Illnesses in China in the Context of Parent-Child Relationships: The Integration of Modern and Postmodern Perspectives.","authors":"Xuan Gao, Siu Ming To, Yuhan Zhao","doi":"10.1177/10497323261424741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323261424741","url":null,"abstract":"Research has revealed an unprecedentedly high rate of various mental illnesses among Chinese youth, which indicates that it is of paramount importance to probe the psychological well-being of this population. For youth, having conflicts with their parents is considered to trigger mental health issues. During this process, parents may attempt to guide, influence, and control these young people, while the youth themselves may resist their parents to seek autonomy and develop their own competence. However, this study revealed a more complex and nuanced phenomenon, as the youth not only resisted their parents but also resisted the power of discourses, and their mental illnesses served as a reification of their resistance. To delineate this circumstance, the study adopts a qualitative paradigm, endorsing a novel theoretical stance that integrates resistance in modernism and postmodernism. A dyadic interview and analysis were conducted with 16 family pairs that involved youth aged 16-24 years during their treatment in an inpatient unit at a grade-A tertiary hospital in Guangzhou, China. Four main themes were identified: (a) resisting the beliefs that emphasize closeness, (b) resisting the discourse of education, (c) resisting the discourse of hardship tolerance, and (d) resisting the public belief in slenderness. The narratives of parents and youth highlight how youths' rebellions occur in daily interactions, where their resistance involves not only their parents but also elusive social powerfull.","PeriodicalId":48437,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Health Research","volume":" ","pages":"10497323261424741"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147640234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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