Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon1, Gil Goldzweig2, Adi Lavi-Rotenberg3, David Roe4, Gerdina Hendrika Maria Pijnenborg5. 1. Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. Electronic address: ilanit.hasson-ohayon@biu.ac.il. 2. School of Behavioral Sciences, The Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israel. 3. Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. 4. Department of Community Mental Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; Department of Clinical Medicine, Psychiatry, Aalborg University, Denmark. 5. GGZ Drenthe Mental Health Institute, Department of Psychotic Disorders, Assen, the Netherlands; Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Cognitive representations of an illness have an important impact on psychological outcomes. The current systematic review explored 1) the characteristics of illness representations held by parents of children and adults with serious mental illness (SMI), and 2) the associations of these representations with both parents' and patients' psychological outcomes. METHOD: PSYINFO and PUBMED were screened for eligible studies published between January 2000 and August 2018. Selection was based on PRISMA guidelines. Reference lists of these papers were checked for additional references. Two independent coders extracted all relevant data. RESULTS: The search resulted in 31 relevant studies, which were divided, by type of methodology, into three sections: quantitative, qualitative, and mixed quantitative-qualitative. In each section, findings were divided in accordance with the two research questions. CONCLUSION: Parents struggle to make meaning of their child's illness, often holding stigmatizing ideas about the illness and blaming themselves for its existence. More longitudinal studies that include both of the child's parents, as well as interventional studies, are needed to expand our knowledge of ways to help parents construct more beneficial representations of their children's illnesses.
OBJECTIVE: Cognitive representations of an illness have an important impact on psychological outcomes. The current systematic review explored 1) the characteristics of illness representations held by parents of children and adults with serious mental illness (SMI), and 2) the associations of these representations with both parents' and patients' psychological outcomes. METHOD: PSYINFO and PUBMED were screened for eligible studies published between January 2000 and August 2018. Selection was based on PRISMA guidelines. Reference lists of these papers were checked for additional references. Two independent coders extracted all relevant data. RESULTS: The search resulted in 31 relevant studies, which were divided, by type of methodology, into three sections: quantitative, qualitative, and mixed quantitative-qualitative. In each section, findings were divided in accordance with the two research questions. CONCLUSION: Parents struggle to make meaning of their child's illness, often holding stigmatizing ideas about the illness and blaming themselves for its existence. More longitudinal studies that include both of the child's parents, as well as interventional studies, are needed to expand our knowledge of ways to help parents construct more beneficial representations of their children's illnesses.
Authors: Joaquín Salvador Lima-Rodríguez; Alejandro Jesús de Medina-Moragas; María José Fernández-Fernández; Marta Lima-Serrano Journal: Community Ment Health J Date: 2022-02-10