Passive patients: a challenge to psychiatric nurses.
OBJECTIVE
Psychiatric patients' participation in their care.


OBJECTIVE
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.


RESULTS
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.
Latvala
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Department of Nursing and Health Science, University of Oulu, Finland. eila.latvala@oulu.fi
Janhonen
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Moring
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D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D009042:Motivation; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010358:Patient Participation; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D011613:Psychotherapy