Självmordsproblematik på Sri Lanka- En socialkonstruktionistisk studie baserad på hälsoarbetares berättelser
(2014) SOPA63 20141School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Sri Lanka is an island that suffers from high suicide rates and is ranked as one of the top countries in the world that have people committing suicide. Sri Lanka has been through Tsunami and a long time of conflict during a civil war. The aim of our study is to clarify how health workers talk about the high suicide rates in Sri Lanka. This is a qualitative study with an inductive approach which took place in Sri Lanka. Five health workers were interviewed and the analysis where made on the basis of a social constructivistic theory where we used the terms verbal-claims and claims-makers. To get a good analysis we created themes and coded the claims from the interviews. In the interviews, almost nothing was said about the civil war and the... (More)
- Sri Lanka is an island that suffers from high suicide rates and is ranked as one of the top countries in the world that have people committing suicide. Sri Lanka has been through Tsunami and a long time of conflict during a civil war. The aim of our study is to clarify how health workers talk about the high suicide rates in Sri Lanka. This is a qualitative study with an inductive approach which took place in Sri Lanka. Five health workers were interviewed and the analysis where made on the basis of a social constructivistic theory where we used the terms verbal-claims and claims-makers. To get a good analysis we created themes and coded the claims from the interviews. In the interviews, almost nothing was said about the civil war and the tsunami as an explanation to why Sri Lanka suffers so high rates in suicide. In our results we can see that the health workers talk about the explanations and arguments for high suicide rates as individual and medical problem, and not as a structural problem. (Less)
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- author
- Mulenga, Karoana LU and Svensson, Susanne LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- suicid, självmord, Sri Lanka, socialkonstruktionism, sociala konstruktioner, socialpsykologi, Tsunami, claims, claims-makers
- language
- Swedish
- English
- id
- 4465268
- date added to LUP
- 2014-06-16 09:05:11
- date last changed
- 2014-06-16 09:05:11
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