Skip to main content

Table 2 Dimensions, themes and subthemes from the corpus

From: The experience of caregivers providing therapeutic patient education for people living with bipolar disorder: a qualitative study

Dimensions

Themes

Subthemes

Facilitators' experiences of TPE sessions

Climate of security

Feeling confident

Allowing oneself to be

Sense of freedom

Caring

Connecting participants

Belonging to a group

Belonging to a team of facilitators of TPE sessions

Belonging to "something I believe in”

Experience sharing

Peers: sharing their experience

Caregivers: contributing to experience sharing

Enjoyment of facilitation

 

Being a TPE facilitator

An expert

Expert by experience

Medical expert

Peer helpers

A bearer of hope

A benchmark

Guarantor of the TPE framework

 

Horizontal relationship

Natural posture

“Equal to equal”

Participate in exchanges, self-disclosure

Listening position

 

Educational posture

 

The role of TPE sessions

Contribution of knowledge

Learning from experience

Learning space for caregivers

Promoting empowerment

Giving freedom

Giving autonomy

Self-normativity

Destigmatisation

Self-awareness

Building recovery on one's own standards

The changes perceived by the FG participants in patients who have used the TPE program

Appeasement

Through destigmatization

Awareness of a common experience

 

Openness

To one’s peers

To one’s loved ones

To the breaking down of taboos

To psychiatrists

Identification

With other participants

With the peer helper

Quality of life

 

First stage of re-engagement

Sense of self-efficacy

Self-esteem

Grief