From: Parents’ perceptions on offspring risk and prevention of anxiety and depression: a qualitative study
Main themes | Citations |
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Prevention | |
- Parents recognize their own depression/anxiety in offspring | #24 “Seeing that we did recognize those things in him [son, 11]. Before this [participation in prevention study] we already thought, let’s take him to the doctor. ‘Could it be that childhood depression, or the like, exists?’” |
- Help, support for parent and child | #19 "If she learns to be more resilient etc., that can only be good" |
#1 “Now she lets us know…she can’t stop herself going over things in her head, ‘how can I stop this?’… I wanted support for her so badly and that’s why we signed up” | |
- Prevention of child problems | #15 “I want to have them checked preventively. I want someone to tell me that everything is still normal, given the circumstances, or that they need treatment themselves in whatever way” |
Helping others | #19 “Those were the most important reasons. Yeah, I think, when I tell my story and it helps other people who suffer encounter the same problems, then …” |
Research is important | #10 “We both were researchers, so you know… it’s.. hard to collect data – I call it data, we studied other things – … it is very important that research on this topic is conducted” |
Child likes to participate | #9 “My son found it very interesting, and he wanted to participate really badly” |