eprintid: 3280
rev_number: 5
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datestamp: 2020-08-07 09:22:32
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type: thesis
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sword_depositor: 1
creators_name: Burghoorn, Desirée G.
creators_id: S2976943
creators_email: D.g.burghoorn@student.rug.nl
title: Type 1 Diabetes, adolescence & depression - Patient’s perspectives on challenges during this life phase that may put them at risk for developing depressive symptoms
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: According to the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, there are around 100.000 people have type 1 diabetes mellitus or so-called T1DM in the Netherlands. The risk of experiencing depressive symptoms is about twice as high for this group compared to people without this condition. Following the Seligmann’s Learned Helplessness theory, depression is more likely to develop as patients are confronted with the limitations of the autoimmune disease, resulting in motivational deficits and feelings of inescapable suffering. The combination of having a chronic disease and being between in adolescence is thus particularly worrisome with regards to developing depressive symptoms. 
This study aims to identify factors playing a role in adolescent T1DM patients’ experience that may put them at risk for developing depression. The double burden of having type 1 diabetes and experiencing depressive symptoms during this life phase. Hence, the research question: “What factors play a role in the increased vulnerability of Dutch type 1 diabetes mellitus patients during adolescence to develop depression from a patient’s perspective?”
In total, six open-ended interviews were conducted with the use of a blank timeline. The factors were categorized by themes: the Self, the Popular and the Formal sector inspired by Kleinman’s sectors of a health system. After analysis, the self-image in relation to T1DM appears to be an important mediating factor in feeling helpless and feeling in control.
date: 2020
pages: 118
thesis_type: bachelor
degree_programme: SGP
tutors_name: Oosterhoff, A.T.
tutors_name: Adaawen, S.A.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Demografie
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Demografie
tutors_email: A.T.Oosterhoff@rug.nl
tutors_email: S.A.Adaawen@rug.nl
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keywords_local: T1DM
keywords_local: Interdisciplinary research
keywords_local: Depressive symptoms
keywords_local: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
keywords_local: Adolescence
keywords_local: Medical anthropological
keywords_local: Psychology
keywords_local: Sense of Place
keywords_local: Human Geography
keywords_local: Risk factors
keywords_local: Narratives
keywords_local: Semi-structured interviews
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2020-07-28
citation:   Burghoorn, Desirée G.  (2020) Type 1 Diabetes, adolescence & depression - Patient’s perspectives on challenges during this life phase that may put them at risk for developing depressive symptoms.  Bachelor thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3280/1/Bachelorthesis_s2976943.pdf