碩士 / 國立臺灣大學 / 社會學研究所 / 101 / In Taiwan, it seems that more and more parents are concerned about the problem of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However, the treatment: medication suggested by psychiatry is seldom used by parents in Taiwan. They prefer dietetic treatment which is dissuaded by psychiatrist. Mother is responsible for caring about children with ADHD, but most of the research for ADHD is either about judging the effectiveness of treatment from expert''s opinion or just describing sufferings of mothers. For this reason, this study tries to expound how mothers find the most appropriate way for curing children of ADHD, while they face the authority of medical science. And it also tries to find how structural reasons influence the treatment decisions of mothers. This study applies a qualitative research design. Data were collected by means of in-depth interview from 12 mothers of children with ADHD, from 2012 to March 2013. Biographical records written by parents and published on the Internet also support this finding.
This study found:
First, the controversy between therapies is still continued. In fact, there are enough scientific evidences to prove the effectiveness of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), not as a general psychiatry claims invalid. Meanwhile, a rigid user-professional relationship makes parents communicate with psychiatrists in a difficult way and the result causes parents to exit.
Second, according to their needs and social conditions, parents can be distributed into three types of action: acceptance, ad hoc use of different approaches and exit. Some parent who bear more pressure, have less economic capital and cultural capital would prefer to accept the psychiatry treatment. Parents who do not want to delay the golden period of treatment or have doubts with drugs might take ad hoc use of different approaches. In other word, they would arrange and try as more therapies as they can. The parents who exit from psychiatry treatment, in general, have the highest cultural capital, and the minimum pressure, but also distrust psychiatry the most.
Third, because of dietetic treatments fulfill the requirement of Taiwan society about intensive motherhood. Comparing with medicine therapy, mothers are more inclined to use dietetic treatments. But also because of social oppression for the mothers, they should carry out the logistic action for family. But father also plays an important role in the decision of therapy. As long as father is more actively involved in logistic action, families more likely to use time-consuming work: dietetic treatments. On the other hand, if father refuses to share work, the mother cannot afford to spend a lot of time and effort on alternative therapies, and then they may chose the easy way: taking medication.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/101NTU05208008 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Wei-Min Liu, 劉維民 |
| Contributors | Chia-Ling Wu, 吳嘉苓 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 90 |
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