Abstract
TOPIC
Psychiatric patients' participation in their care.
PURPOSE
To describe psychiatric patients' participation in their own care in a hospital environment.
METHODS
Data 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.
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