Living in a group dwelling: how do residents spend their time in a psychiatric group dwelling?
The aim of the study was to investigate how residents at psychiatric group dwellings spend their time. The study consisted of two parts: questionnaires and an observation survey. It included all the staff at two municipal psychiatric group dwellings where the residents were primarily diagnosed as having long-term schizophrenia. This study indicated that, even if the dwellings had a creative climate, there was a negative process in terms of nurses' well-being with a high level of depersonalisation. The residents who displayed a predominant picture of negative symptoms were left alone for 84% of the day, and 29.5% of this could be explained by their illness. The remainder of the residents' time alone remains unexplained.
Ove
R N Hellzén
RN
Department of Nursing and Health Sciences, Mid-Sweden University, Sundsvall 85170, Sweden. ove.hellzen@mh.se
Lisbeth
R N Kristiansen
RN
Gustaf
R N T Norbergh Karl
RN
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D016352:Group Homes; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006802:Human Activities; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000451:nursing / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013548:Sweden