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| Title |
Confirming mental health care in acute psychiatric wards, as narrated by persons experiencing psychotic illness: an interview study
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| Published in |
BMC Nursing, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12912-016-0126-x |
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| Authors |
Karina Sebergsen, Astrid Norberg, Anne-Grethe Talseth |
| Abstract |
It is important that mental health nurses meet the safety, security and care needs of persons suffering from psychotic illness to enhance these persons' likelihood of feeling better during their time in acute psychiatric wards. Certain persons in care describe nurses' mental health care as positive, whereas others report negative experiences and express a desire for improvements. There is limited research on how persons with psychotic illness experience nurses' mental health care acts and how such acts help these persons feel better. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore, describe and understand how the mental health nurses in acute psychiatric wards provide care that helps persons who experienced psychotic illness to feel better, as narrated by these persons. This study had a qualitative design; 12 persons participated in qualitative interviews. The interviews were transcribed, content analysed and interpreted using Martin Buber's concept of confirmation. The results of this study show three categories of confirming mental health care that describe what helped the participants to feel better step-by-step: first, being confirmed as a person experiencing psychotic illness in need of endurance; second, being confirmed as a person experiencing psychotic illness in need of decreased psychotic symptoms; and third, being confirmed as a person experiencing psychotic illness in need of support in daily life. The underlying meaning of the categories and of subcategories were interpreted and formulated as the theme; confirming mental health care to persons experiencing psychotic illness. Confirming mental health care acts seem to help persons to feel better in a step-wise manner during psychotic illness. Nurses' openness and sensitivity to the changing care needs of persons who suffer from psychotic illness create moments of confirmation within caring acts that concretely help the persons to feel better and that may enhance their health. The results show the importance of taking the experiential knowledge of persons who have experienced psychotic illness seriously to develop and increase the quality of mental health care in acute psychiatric wards. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 59 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 59 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 7% |
| Lecturer | 4 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 9 | 15% |
| Unknown | 17 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 27% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 12% |
| Psychology | 7 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 4 | 7% |
| Unknown | 18 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 October 2016.
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#14,182,150
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Outputs from BMC Nursing
#389
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#205,398
of 395,522 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Nursing
#10
of 16 outputs
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