Kontakt 2023, 25(4):314-320 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2023.043

"Life does not feel hopeless anymore..."Social Sciences in Health - Original article

Linda Anette Kvalsvik, Miroslava Tokovska *
Kristiania University College, School of Health Sciences, Department of Health and Exercise, Oslo, Norway

Introduction: The Clubhouse concept is a therapeutic community with the philosophy that its members, including those with mental illness as well as the staff, are all colleagues working side by side to perform the work important to the Clubhouse community. This qualitative study aims to explore the experiences that members of a Clubhouse in Norway had with social support and takes a salutogenetic approach.

Methods: Ten members of a Clubhouse in Norway contributed to this study; six persons with mental illness participated in semi-structured in-depth interviews and four staff attended a focus group interview.

Results: Participants expressed three main themes: (i) a fellowship promotes belonging (ii) increasing belief in one's own skills, and (iii) self-decision-making promotes the use of resources.

Conclusion: This study summarises the importance of belonging, autonomy, and participation as the fundamentals of the social support experience. Future research should be focussed on Clubhouse members from minority backgrounds and differences in experiences within psychosocial recovery outcomes.

Keywords: Clubhouse membership; Interview; Mental illness; Norway; Salutogenesis; Social support
Grants and funding:

This research paper originated as a partial outcome of a research project BIN SGS02_2021_002: University Enhancing the Smart Active Aging (UESAA), supported by Norway through the Norway Grants.

Conflicts of interest:

The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.

Received: May 1, 2023; Revised: August 27, 2023; Accepted: October 30, 2023; Prepublished online: November 22, 2023; Published: December 18, 2023  Show citation

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Kvalsvik LA, Tokovska M. "Life does not feel hopeless anymore...". Kontakt. 2023;25(4):314-320. doi: 10.32725/kont.2023.043.
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