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Changes in Self-Concept While Using SSRI Antidepressants
Pia Knudsen
Department of Social Pharmacy, the Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Denmark, Research Centre for Quality in Medicine Use, Denmark.
Ebba Holme Hansen
Department of Social Pharmacy, the Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Denmark, Research Centre for Quality in Medicine Use, Denmark.
Janine Morgall Traulsen
Department of Social Pharmacy, the Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Denmark, Research Centre for Quality in Medicine Use, Denmark.
Kristin Eskildsen
Department of Social Pharmacy, the Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Denmark, Research Centre for Quality in Medicine Use, Denmark.
In this study, the authors analyze how younger women see themselves within the context of using the antidepressants selective seroton in re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Twelve in-depth interviews and 6 reinterviews were conducted with a community-based sample of women who had been taking SSRIs between 1 and 4 years. The empirical analysis revealed that SSRI users passed through stages in their careers as medicine users, these stages corresponding to how the users thought and felt about themselves. Four major changes in self-concept emerged: distressed and needing help, conflicts about taking the medicine, improvements in condition, and problems discontinuing the medicine. Users evaluated themselves from what they believed was the perspective of society, and the way they saw themselves was closely related to how they felt they functioned in everyday life.
Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 12, No. 7,
932-944 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/104973202129120368
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