Informal antidepressant strategies for nursing home residents: two group concept mapping studies
Inge Knippenberg, Ruslan Leontjevas, Slavi Stoyanov, Anke Persoon, Peter Verboon, Hester Vermeulen, Jacques van Lankveld, Debby L. Gerritsen
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To identify and structure potential informal antidepressant strategies that can be used in daily practice for nursing home residents alongside formal treatments. METHODS: = 110) reported strategies for use by others. Furthermore, participants rated the expected effectiveness and feasibility of the suggested strategies. Simultaneously, all strategies were sorted by experts and clustered using multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis. RESULTS: were perceived as the most feasible. CONCLUSION: The results indicated the importance of social connectedness, a personalized and positive approach by significant others, and tailored activity programs. The results also suggest that adaptations to the physical environment within nursing homes may be an easy applicable strategy to prevent or alleviate depression in residents. Although more research is needed, these findings may guide daily practice and the development of interventions that include informal strategies. Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2022.2057427 .