Sexual and Physical Abuse among Patients with Severe Mental Illness in Kampala and Masaka – Coding Framework Data - User Guide

Persistent identifier

10.17037/DATA.00002840

Data description

A spreadsheet containing selected transcript quotations collected from 18 in-depth interview participants. The interview transcripts cover a range of topics, including the experience of living with severe mental illness, relapse of mental illness episodes, and abuse/victimisation and its various forms. Themes covers include physical, sexual & psychological victimisation; causes of vulnerability to victimisation of people with severe mental illness; what can be done to reduce victimisation; experience of living with severe mental illness; mental illness treatment experience and challenges.

Data collection methods

Qualitative, in-depth interviews were held with 18 participants, selected from a purposive sample of patients who have suffered from severe mental illness but had experienced symptom remission. These participants had suffered victimisation before acquiring a mental illness or while suffering a mental illness.

Data analysis and preparation

Voice recordings were transcribed verbatim and the transcripts anonymised before analysis. An interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was conducted, by which the aim was to explore in detail participants’ life-worlds and the meanings they attach to these, in this case victimisation experiences of persons living with severe mental illness.

Geographic regions

Data collection for the SMILE study took place at the out-patients departments (OPDs) of Butabika National Psychiatric Referral Hospital and Masaka Regional Referral Hospital.

Key dates

Data collection for the SMILE study started in January 2018 and ended in March 2020.

Quality controls

The data were designed with checks for completeness, range checks, cross-referencing checks and consistency checks.

Data cleaning was also done on relevant variables to prepare the data for analysis. Quality was ensured by following specific protocols and SOPs, having regular audits, and clear documentation of all processes.

Population

Human population

Privacy

We protected the confidentiality of personal and/or sensitive information by adopting several strategies, including (i) training research team members (research assistants) on strategies for protecting confidentiality, and (ii) ensuring participant names were removed from the interview transcripts.

Ethics

The study obtained ethical approvals from the Uganda Virus Research Institute’s Research and Ethics Committee (GC/127/19/10/612) and the Uganda National Council of Science and Technology (HS 2337).

Keywords

Victimisation, severe mental illness, Uganda

Language of written material

English and Luganda

Project

Data creators

File description

Dataset codebook

The Coding framework data spreadsheet contains selected quotations of 18 participants on their experience of victimisation. The spreadsheet contains seven (7) high-level categories and three (3) sub-sections on physical, sexual, and psychological victimisation.