How People With a Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis Talk About Personal Recovery in Peer Online Support Forums: Corpus Framework Analysis Using the POETIC Framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Personal recovery is of particular value in bipolar disorder, where symptoms often persist despite treatment. We previously defined the POETIC (Purpose and Meaning, Optimism and Hope, Empowerment, Tensions, Identity, Connectedness) framework for personal recovery in bipolar disorder. So far, personal recovery has only been studied in researcher-constructed environments (eg, interviews and focus groups). Support forum posts can serve as a complementary naturalistic data resource to understand the lived experience of personal recovery.

Objective

This study aimed to answer the question "What can online support forum posts reveal about the experience of personal recovery in bipolar disorder in relation to the POETIC framework?"

Methods

By integrating natural la

SUBMITTER: Jagfeld G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10662676 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature