Highlights
- •It is important to determine the problems experienced by patients with bipolar disorder during the treatment process.
- •Determining the information needs of patients with bipolar disorder is effective in adherence to treatment.
- •It is important to reveal the disease and treatment perceptions of patients with bipolar disorder.
Abstract
The objective of the present study was to determine the problems and information needs
of patients with bipolar disorder during the treatment process. The present research
is in the type of descriptive and qualitative study. In-depth individual interviews
were conducted with 11 volunteer patients with bipolar disorder. The data collected
from the interviews were evaluated using the descriptive analysis method. In the study,
four categories (disease onset/diagnosis stage, adherence to treatment, interpersonal
relationships, information needs) and nine main themes (symptoms, family support,
factors that positively affect treatment adherence, factors that negatively affect
treatment adherence, positive effects of treatment, negative effects of treatment,
stigmatization, treatment, disease) were determined. Patients with bipolar disorder
can be helped to cope with the problems they experience by providing information about
the disease, adherence to treatment, the treatment process, and the effects of drugs.
Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: December 17, 2022
Accepted:
December 10,
2022
Received in revised form:
November 22,
2022
Received:
June 2,
2022
Footnotes
☆A doctoral thesis, which consists of qualitative and quantitative stages, titled “The Effect of Treatment Adherence Training on the Patients with Bipolar Disorder on Treatment Adherence, Social Functioning and Quality of Life” has been made. The quantitative phase was published in the journal Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice with the title “Effect of treatment adherence training given to patients with bipolar disorder on treatment adherence, social functioning and quality of life: A pilot study”. This is the section about the Qualitative stage.
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