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The new neighbour: Experiences of living next door to people suffering from long‐term mental illness
Author(s) -
Granerud Arild,
Severinsson Elisabeth
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
international journal of mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.911
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1447-0349
pISSN - 1445-8330
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-0979.2003.00264.x
Subject(s) - mental illness , grounded theory , neighbourhood (mathematics) , term (time) , long term care , psychiatry , mental hospital , medicine , psychology , mental health , qualitative research , sociology , mathematical analysis , social science , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics
The transition from hospital to community care for people with long‐term mental illness is of growing concern. The aim of the present study was to illuminate if and how people with long‐term mental illness have affected their neighbourhood after re‐establishing themselves in apartments of their own. Nineteen neighbours of group homes for people with long‐term mental illness, in seven different communities in eastern Norway, have been interviewed. The grounded theory procedures as well as the constant comparative method were employed to analyse the findings. From the data, one main category was identified: the need for information.