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Passive Patients: A Challenge to Psychiatric Nurses
Author(s) -
Latvala Eila,
Janhonen Sirpa,
Moring Juha
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2000.tb00686.x
Subject(s) - active listening , nursing , medicine , citizen journalism , participant observation , nursing care , psychology , psychiatry , psychotherapist , world wide web , computer science , sociology , anthropology
topic . Psychiatric patients’participation in their care. purpose . To describe psychiatric patients’participation in their own care in a hospital environment.methodsData were collected by videotaping different nursing situations (n = 10) and recording interviews of the patients (n = 16), nurses (n = 29), and nursing students (n = 7) afterward. Deductive content analysis techniques were used to analyze the written data, using the following categories of psychiatric patients’participation as a theoretical framework: passive recipient, responsible recipient, and responsible participant .findings The results showed that 64% of the patients were passive recipients of care, 22% were responsible recipients, and 14% were responsible participants. conclusions .Patients’participation as responsible participants in their care provides a foundation for better collaboration, listening to the patient, participatory dialogue, and resource recognition.