Table 2 Relevant codes and themes from the analysis using Attride-Stirling’s thematic network analysis [41]
Codes | Basic themes | Organizing themes | Global theme |
|---|---|---|---|
Information – treatment options and rights | Communication skills | Interpersonal relationships between therapists and patients | Personal recovery processes facilitated by more psychosocial treatment options within mental health care – medication-free treatment programme |
Doctor, trust and availability | |||
Power play | Potential difficulties | ||
Substituting AP medication with other treatment | |||
The importance of having a choice | Processes of treatment choices | Patterns of suffering and how choices are made | |
Choosing the unknown | |||
Choosing medication; effects, side effects | |||
Getting experience | Developing personal illness understanding, considering consequences | ||
Worsening: not an easy way out | |||
Outside factors, keep work and family | |||
Expectations; do it myself | Personal responsibility for recovery | Motivation and personal agency in the recovery process | |
Coping strategies | |||
Doing stupid things | |||
Being independent, not telling | Future life hopes and thoughts, independence in life and treatment situations | ||
Dreams and hopes; work, studies, family | |||
Not being hard on myself |