title: Meaning-making through psychological autopsy interviews: the value of participating in qualitative research for those bereaved by suicide.
abstract: Too often ethical boards delay or stop research projects with vulnerable populations, influenced by presumed rather than empirically documented vulnerability. The article investigates how participation is experienced by those bereaved by suicide. Experiences are divided into 3 groups: (a) overall positive (62%), (b) unproblematic (10%), and (c) positive and painful (28%). The positive experiences are linked to processes of meaning-making, gaining new insight, and a hope to help others. Objective factors concerning the gender of participants, their relationship to the deceased, the method of suicide, and time since loss were largely unrelated to their experience of the interview.
authors: Division of Psychological Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. kari@krisepsyk.no
authors: Kari Madeleine
authors: KM
authors: Dyregrov
authors: Division of Psychological Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
authors: Gudrun
authors: G
authors: Dieserud
authors: Department of Social Work and Health Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
authors: Heidi Marie
authors: HM
authors: Hjelmeland
authors: Division of Psychological Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
authors: Melanie
authors: M
authors: Straiton
authors: Division of Psychological Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
authors: Mette Lyberg
authors: ML
authors: Rasmussen
authors: Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
authors: Birthe Loa
authors: BL
authors: Knizek
authors: Division of Psychological Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
authors: Antoon Adrian
authors: AA
authors: Leenaars
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001364:Awareness; D001601:Bereavement; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D036301:Qualitative Research; D035842:Research Subjects / Q000523:psychology; D060685:Sense of Coherence; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult