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Self‐activeness and the need for help in domiciliary care
Author(s) -
Raatikainen Ritva
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1991.tb01522.x
Subject(s) - self care , medicine , social support , mentally ill , psychology , nursing , psychiatry , mental illness , mental health , health care , psychotherapist , economics , economic growth
The data in this paper are based on interviews of domiciliary care patients in Helsinki, Finland The aim of the study was to compare self‐active patients' (65) and non‐self‐active patients' (61) need for help and the help they received The findings demonstrated that patients who had, to some extent, a ‘better’ background, received support from their relatives, assessed themselves as physically and especially mentally healthier and were socially stronger, were also more often self‐active than patients, who had a ‘poorer’ background, received little support and felt more ill The non‐self‐active patients received help with some physical activities more often but not with mental and social problems The self‐active patients co‐operated better with the care providers and considered the quality of care to be higher than did the non‐self‐achve pahents