Trough previous research we have knowledge about the connection between balance in daily life and the experience of health. The psychological or stressrelated ill health increases despite more people receiving care and treatment. It is therefore a central issue to shed further light on whether we provide the right care based on the perspective of the individuals. The purpose of the study was to describe experiences from adult individuals on sick leave due to psychological or stress related ill health regarding maintaining balance in everyday activities. Data were generated through individual narrative interviews with individuals with psychological or stress related illness, from primary care and analysed using a narrative analysis. The analysis of the data resulted in four themes called strategies for maintaining balance, barriers to balancing strategies to maintaining balance, roles and habits that affects the ability to maintain balance, new experiences that affects the ability to maintain balance. Results show that there is a complexity to maintain balance in daily living and there are many components that effects the ability and conditions to maintain a balance in daily life that promotes health. The results could give a deeper understanding about the need for care through the individuals experience and highlight occupational therapy and the occupational therapist role. This regarding working with the ability to delimit in activity as a step towards developing care and treatment for individuals with psychological or stress related illness. And raise the perspective on the importance of creating sustainability perspective and from socioeconomic gain
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:ltu-84152 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Forsgren, Jennie |
| Publisher | Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för hälsa, lärande och teknik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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