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A survey of self‐neglect in patients living in the community
Author(s) -
LAUDER WILLIAM
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2702.1999.00231.x
Subject(s) - neglect , conceptualization , psychology , nursing , agency (philosophy) , compliance (psychology) , self , medicine , social psychology , sociology , social science , artificial intelligence , computer science
• Self‐neglect is a familiar concept to all community nurses. Nevertheless there have been few empirical studies undertaken in this area over the last 30 years. • The study of self‐neglect has been hampered by inadequate conceptualization and a lack of theoretical frameworks. • This article reports a study of patients who did and did not self‐neglect, drawn from district nursing caseloads. • Patients with self‐neglect had lower levels of operable self‐care agency than patients in a comparison group. • Only self‐neglecting patients had the nursing diagnoses `ineffective management of therapy' and `non‐compliance'.