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The understanding and help-seeking of psychotic disorders amongst service users, family carer’s and laypeople : a Sikh perspective
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Kular, Ariana (2022) The understanding and help-seeking of psychotic disorders amongst service users, family carer’s and laypeople : a Sikh perspective. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
Background: Sikhism is the fifth largest major world religion across the globe. Despite forming a significant proportion of the minority ethnic population in Britain it has been overlooked in mental health research. Psychotic disorders are disproportionately higher across minority ethnic groups and there exists no research on how the Sikh community understand and seek help for psychosis. The way in which a community perceives psychosis can impact their duration of untreated psychosis, treatment pathways, diagnosis, experience and engagement of mental health services, and treatment outcomes.
Aims: To explore the understandings of psychotic disorders and associated help-seeking amongst adult Sikhs in England, and how family, religion, culture, and lived experience of psychotic disorders, influence these.
Method: An exploratory qualitative design was employed, utilising purposive and snowball sampling techniques to recruit Sikh service users in recovery of psychosis, their family members, and laypeople across England. The total sample size was 43, with semi-structured interviews conducted on 30 laypeople, 9 family members, and 4 service users.
Results: Each study had numerous superordinate themes and sub-themes. The common themes amongst all participant groups included: a lack of awareness and knowledge of psychosis; negative perceptions towards psychosis and general mental illness; professional help-seeking encouraged; the importance of family in help-seeking and support; and the religion and culture divide.
Conclusion: Based on these research findings, strives should be made to educate the Punjabi, Sikh community on different mental illnesses and this should be executed at both an individual and family level. Through increasing the awareness of psychosis and other specific mental illnesses, two essential benefits can be achieved: help-seeking for psychosis and other mental illnesses could be sought at an earlier stage which would positively impact clinical, social and functional outcomes and the negative perceptions around mental illness would be reduced.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Sikhs -- Mental health, Sikhs -- Great Britain, Psychoses -- Patients -- Great Britain, Psychoses -- Religious aspects, Psychoses -- Patients -- Services for, Psychoses -- Treatment -- Great Britain | ||||
Official Date: | July 2022 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Warwick Medical School | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Singh, Swaran P. ; Tuomainen, Helena | ||||
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Extent: | 295 pages, 66 unnumbered pages : illustrations (colour) | ||||
Language: | eng |
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