Suffering of Patients Long-Stay Admitted in Psychiatric Hospital

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  • 精神科における長期入院患者の苦悩
  • セイシンカ ニ オケル チョウキ ニュウイン カンジャ ノ クノウ

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The purpose of this study was to clarify the Suffering of long-Stay admitted patients of psychiatric hospitals. The subjects were 26 male and 8 female patients being in hospital for 5 years or more, from whom informed consent was obtained to be enrolled in this study. A qualitative and descriptive investigation was made through participating observation and semi-constructive interview. As the suffering that might appear in long-stay admitted patients in psychiatric hospital, the following five items were extracted; fear of loneliness, suffering of living with psychiatric disease, difficulty in daily living due to a lowering of social adaptability, anxiety for own existence to be threatened and suffering due to a lowering of self-acceptability. Generally, patients' suffering is closely related with their own cognitive factors as well as belief and sense of value in life. Therefore, to assess patients' suffering was thought as an important mental care to improve their QOL.

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