title: Self-care symptom management strategies for auditory hallucinations among inpatients with schizophrenia at a Veterans' Hospital in Taiwan.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore self-care management strategies for auditory hallucinations (AHs) among inpatients with schizophrenia. Self-report and semistructured questionnaires were used to identify 36 self-management strategies of 200 inpatients with schizophrenia living at a veterans' hospital in Taiwan. The most commonly used management category was behavioral change and the most commonly used strategy was ignoring the AHs. The most common resource for strategies was self-learning. These results can help broaden health care providers' understanding about self-care management strategies for coping with AHs among inpatients with schizophrenia. Developing a manual containing selected self-care strategies and incorporating those strategies into cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy could be useful and beneficial to patients experiencing AHs.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Chang Gung University, Taiwan. yftsai@mail.cgu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Yun-Fang
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Yan-Chiou
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Ku
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D006787:Hospitals, Veterans; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000451:nursing*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012648:Self Care / Q000523:psychology*; D013624:Taiwan