‘They Sent Me Out to School, and I Came Back with a Baby’
Perinatal Women’s Experiences of Biographical Disruption and Nonfatal Suicidal Behaviour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21125035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pamela Zungu (Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Kerry-Ann Louw (0000-0002-4931-5084, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Philip Slabbert (0000-0001-8643-996X, Stellenbosch University), Jason Bantjes (0000-0002-3626-9883, Stellenbosch University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 1767-1779 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10497323221119314 |
| PMID | 35938716 |
| OpenAlex | W4290653473 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 59 |
Exploring perinatal women’s experience of nonfatal suicidal behaviour (NFSB) could help illuminate the contexts in which perinatal suicide occurs and new ways to conceptualise maternal suicide prevention. Our aim was to explore perinatal women’s subjective experience of NFSB in South Africa. Data were collected via in-depth interviews with seven perinatal women hospitalised following NFSB. Thematic analysis showed how poverty and gender norms shape experiences of pregnancy and highlighted the need for eco-systemic interventions for perinatal women in resource scarce environments to increase social support, assist with childcare, improve educational retention, challenge gender norms and increase paternal involvement. Pregnancy can precipitate biographical disruption by disturbing women’s view of themselves and their futures. An inability to reconstruct a coherent narrative and re-imagine the future impedes the transition to motherhood and provides a context for suicide. Using the concept of biographical disruption to frame perinatal suicide, could identify novel approaches to suicide prevention
Developmental psychology · Medical emergency · Narrative · Poison control · Political science · Poverty · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Qualitative research · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Thematic analysis · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum · Medicine · Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
Prevalence of suicidality during pregnancy and the postpartum
The social construction of gender and its influence on suicide
The relationship between social support and mental health problems during pregnancy
Suicide and poverty in low-income and middle-income countries
Involving men to improve maternal and newborn health
Thematic analysis.
“I’m Not Afraid of Dying Because I’ve Got Nothing to Lose”
Exploring the knowledge practices of psychology
Losing the Plot
The sociology of chronic illness
South Africa's transition to democracy and democratic consolidation
Balancing paid work and child care in a slum of Nairobi, Kenya
The cultural turn in critical suicidology
Young men in post-apartheid South Africa talk about masculinity and suicide prevention
Epidemiology of suicide in South Africa
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Text, Context and Individual Meaning
After virtue
The Gender-Ing of Suicide
The Benefits of Robust Debate About the Place of Qualitative Research in Suicide Prevention
Laboring to Mother in the Context of Past Trauma
"What Can We Learn From First-Person Narratives?" The Case of Nonfatal Suicidal Behavior
I've Never Not Had it So I Don't Really Know What it's Like Not to
Developing Maternal Self-Efficacy for Feeding Preterm Babies in the Neonatal Unit
Revisiting biographical disruption
Biographical disruption, abruption and repair in the context of Motor Neurone Disease
Chronic illness as biographical disruption
From biographical disruption to biographical reinforcement
Lay experiences of health and illness
Illness narratives
Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept
Illness and narrative
The narrative constitution of identity
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |