Social injury: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the attitudes towards suicide of lay persons in Ghana

dc.contributor.authorOsafo, J.
dc.contributor.authorHjelmeland, H.
dc.contributor.authorAkotia, C.S.
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-26T08:57:16Z
dc.date.available2023-09-26T08:57:16Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractOne way of furthering our understanding of suicidal behaviour is to examine people’s attitudes towards it and how they conceive the act. The aim of this study was to understand how lay persons conceive the impact of suicide on others and how that influences their attitudes towards suicide; and discuss the implications for suicide prevention in Ghana. This is a qualitative study, using a semi-structured interview guide to investigate the attitudes and views of 27 lay persons from urban and rural settings in Ghana. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to analyse the data. Findings showed that the perceived breach of interrelatedness between people due to suicidal behaviour influenced the informants’ view of suicide as representing a social injury. Such view of suicide influenced the negative attitudes the informants expressed towards the act. The negative attitudes towards suicide in Ghana are cast in consequential terms. Thus, suicide is an immoral act because it socially affects others negatively. The sense of community within the African ethos and The Moral Causal Ontology for Suffering are theoretical postulations that are used to offer some explanations of the findings in this study.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTo cite this article: Joseph Osafo, Heidi Hjelmeland, CharitySylvia Akotia & BirtheLoa Knizek (2011) Social injury: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the attitudes towards suicide of lay persons in Ghana., International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 6:4, 8708, DOI: 10.3402/qhw.v6i4.8708en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v6i4.8708
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/40094
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-beingen_US
dc.subjectSocial injuryen_US
dc.subjectattitudesen_US
dc.subjectlay personsen_US
dc.subjectsuicideen_US
dc.subjectGhanaen_US
dc.titleSocial injury: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the attitudes towards suicide of lay persons in Ghanaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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