The Bawling Patients: What Elderly Patients at a Psychiatric Residential Unit Want to Appeal

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  • 怒鳴る患者―精神科療養病棟に入院中の高齢患者が訴えるもの―
  • ドナル カンジャ : セイシンカ リョウヨウ ビョウトウ ニ ニュウイン チュウ ノ コウレイ カンジャ ガ ウッタエル モノ

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<p>The aim of this study is to understand elderly inpatients who were recognized as difficult patients as they were annoying staff and other patients by yelling continuously in a psychiatric unit. Research participants were three female patients aged over sixty whose ADL had been restricted to spend most of the time in their wheel chairs due to their deteriorated physical condition. Fieldwork was carried out weekly 50 times in total. A researcher made effort to communicate with them every time. They lost physical free, and experienced to loss and abuse. They bawled as the cause of solitude, distrust, anger of being unable to spoil, and irritation by not understood their mind. The bawling patients needed to communicate with them, even if I was bawled, and to talk my honest feeling. As a result, their reaction of bawling calmed down; they became to have expressive techniques of talking and play. At first, they just bawled, but they proved their ability of expression themselves.</p>

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