title: Psychiatric Nursing in Integrated Wards Accommodating Both Female and Male Patients: A Historic Pioneering Reform Initiative Implemented by the Institute of Psychiatry, a Unit of the Federal University of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
abstract: The purpose of this research is to analyze aspects of the sexuality of people with mental disorders, an issue that influenced nursing care in the mixed nursing wards of the Institute of Psychiatry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro between 1996-2002. A qualitative Historical Social Study methodology used written and oral texts that were analyzed drawing on Michel Foucault's ideas about sexuality. Results of the study indicate that a rupture occurred in the distribution model according to gender at the Psychiatric Hospitalization Unit. This, in turn, influenced nursing care. From this study, we conclude that accommodating patients in mixed wards better facilitates the psychosocial rehabilitation process and changes nursing teams' conceptions about the sexuality of people with mental disorders.
authors.affiliation: a Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Anna Nery School of Nursing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and The Research Group on the History of Brazilian Nursing , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil.
authors.forename: Paloma Mello
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Bandeira
authors.affiliation: a Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Anna Nery School of Nursing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and The Research Group on the History of Brazilian Nursing , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil.
authors.forename: Cynthia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Haddad P Souza
authors.affiliation: a Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Anna Nery School of Nursing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and The Research Group on the History of Brazilian Nursing , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil.
authors.forename: Juliana C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: da Silva Guimarães
authors.affiliation: a Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Anna Nery School of Nursing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and The Research Group on the History of Brazilian Nursing , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil.
authors.forename: Antonio José
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: de Almeida Filho
authors.affiliation: a Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Anna Nery School of Nursing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and The Research Group on the History of Brazilian Nursing , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria Angélica
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: de Almeida Peres
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012737:Sex Factors; D019529:Sexuality