TY - JOUR
T1 - A Qualitative Inquiry into the Taiwanese Mentally Ill Persons' Difficulties Living in the Community
AU - Lin, Ching Lan Esther
AU - Kopelowicz, Alex
AU - Chan, Chin Hong
AU - Hsiung, Ping Chuan
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the department of research development at the Hung-Kuang University for supporting this study through its research fund, and also express their gratitude to the participants in this study for their willingness to share their experience. Special thanks go to Dr. Paul Liberman for his insightful comments on this article and Dr. Yu Fang Wang for her linguistic editing.
PY - 2008/10
Y1 - 2008/10
N2 - Community care has been a paradigm shift for psychiatric treatment worldwide; however, it has not been successfully implemented in many developing countries, including Taiwan. This qualitative study aimed to explore the Taiwanese mentally ill persons' difficulties living in the community. Social disadvantages and illness adaptation were recognized as two domains of difficulties encountered by Taiwanese mentally ill patients living in the community, while six themes were identified: getting a "shameful" illness, unmet needs for community care, being overcome by a distorted world, denying the illness, living with the illness, and adapting to changed level of functioning. Related cultural issues were also discussed.
AB - Community care has been a paradigm shift for psychiatric treatment worldwide; however, it has not been successfully implemented in many developing countries, including Taiwan. This qualitative study aimed to explore the Taiwanese mentally ill persons' difficulties living in the community. Social disadvantages and illness adaptation were recognized as two domains of difficulties encountered by Taiwanese mentally ill patients living in the community, while six themes were identified: getting a "shameful" illness, unmet needs for community care, being overcome by a distorted world, denying the illness, living with the illness, and adapting to changed level of functioning. Related cultural issues were also discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.apnu.2007.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.apnu.2007.07.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 18809119
AN - SCOPUS:52249096173
SN - 0883-9417
VL - 22
SP - 266
EP - 276
JO - Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
JF - Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
IS - 5
ER -
