Open AccessThe Patient Experiences Hallucinations with Schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Sri Wahyuni,
Mahnum Lailan Nst,
Wardiyah Daulay
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
open access macedonian journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 17
ISSN - 1857-9655
DOI - 10.3889/oamjms.2021.6350
Subject(s) - hallucinating , visual hallucination , medicine , perception , distress , psychosis , auditory hallucination , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , psychology , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , computer science
BACKGROUND: Hallucination is the psychosis symptom which mostly experienced by patients with schizophrenia. It is also the experience of false perception undergone by patients without any stimulus from the environment. That experience of perception is real to the patients but not for others who do not have similar perception of experience with the patients.
AIM: This research is phenomenological and aims for describing experiences of patients with schizophrenia who had hallucination.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: This research took 15 patients. In this research, approaches and trust-building were accomplished before conducting deep interview process. This research was conducted at Prof. Ildrem Asylum – Medan. The data analysis was Colaizzi’s method.
RESULT: This research resulted in six themes, namely hallucination content, predisposition factor that causes hallucination, patients’ subjective response when hallucinating, the distress facing by the patients with hallucination, actions taken when hallucinating and the obstacles experienced by the patients.
CONCLUSION: This research provides description to all medical officers to prioritize giving therapy in order to overcome patients’ hallucination.