Objetivo: analisar as políticas de Saúde Mental atuais, discriminando os cuidados de saúde definidos para o período pós-alta da hospitalização psiquiátrica, com um enfoque sobre os cuidados de Enfermagem. Método: trata-se de um estudo quantitativo, tipo reflexivo, a partir da pesquisa em 27 documentos de caráter institucional, legislativo ou oficialmente reconhecidos que regulam a área de Saúde Mental no que concerne ao regresso da pessoa à casa pós-alta hospitalar psiquiátrica. Resultados: identificaram-se 15 documentos que revelam cuidados de Saúde Mental centrados ainda na produtividade hospitalar, com dificuldade em estabelecer estruturas e intervenções comunitárias. Verificam-se uma insuficiência e a variabilidade na distribuição de recursos humanos e de intervenções, com falta de uniformidade entre os diversos prestadores de cuidados. Constitui-se, em uma lógica multidisciplinar, a intervenção de Enfermagem como essencial para assegurar a continuidade de cuidados. Verifica-se, porém, que a intervenção do enfermeiro especialista está insuficientemente integrada nas políticas de Saúde Mental. Conclusão: mantêm-se as políticas de Saúde Mental portuguesas aquém na definição e prestação de cuidados de saúde transicionais específicos ao pós-alta hospitalar psiquiátrico para a casa. Descritores: Alta do Paciente; Unidade Hospitalar de Psiquiatria; Política de Saúde; Enfermagem Psiquiátrica; Continuidade da Assistência ao Paciente, Enfermagem.AbstractObjective: to analyze current Mental Health policies, discriminating health care defined for the post-discharge period of psychiatric hospitalization, with a focus on Nursing care. Method: this is a quantitative, reflective study, based on research in 27 institutional, legislative or officially recognized documents that regulate the area of Mental Health regarding the return of the person to the home after psychiatric discharge. Results: 15 documents were identified that reveal Mental Health care focused on hospital productivity, with difficulty in establishing community structures and interventions. There is a insufficiency and variability in the distribution of human resources and interventions, with lack of uniformity among the various caregivers. In a multidisciplinary logic, nursing intervention is essential to ensure continuity of care. However, it is verified that the intervention of the specialist nurse is insufficiently integrated in the Mental Health policies. Conclusion: Portuguese Mental Health policies are still falling short in the definition and provision of transitional health care specific to the psychiatric post-discharge home. Descriptors: Patient Discharge; Psychiatric Department, Hospital; Health Policy; Psychiatric Nursing; Continuity of Patient Care; Nursing.ResumenObjetivo: analizar las políticas actuales de Salud Mental, discriminando la atención de salud definida para el período posterior al alta de hospitalización psiquiátrica, con un enfoque en la atención de Enfermería. Método: este es un estudio cuantitativo, reflexivo, basado en la investigación en 27 documentos institucionales, legislativos u oficialmente reconocidos que regulan el área de Salud Mental con respecto al regreso de la persona al hogar después del alta psiquiátrica. Resultados: se identificaron 15 documentos que revelan la atención de Salud Mental centrada en la productividad hospitalaria, con dificultad para establecer estructuras e intervenciones comunitarias. Existe una insuficiencia y variabilidad en la distribución de recursos humanos e intervenciones, con falta de uniformidad entre los distintos cuidadores. En una lógica multidisciplinaria, la intervención de Enfermería es esencial para garantizar la continuidad de la atención. Sin embargo, se verifica que la intervención del enfermero especializado está insuficientemente integrada en las políticas de Salud Mental. Conclusión: las políticas portuguesas de Salud Mental siguen sin cumplir con la definición y la provisión de atención de salud de transición específica para el hogar psiquiátrico posterior al alta. Descriptores: Alta del Paciente; Servicio de Psiquiatría en Hospital; Política de Salud; Enfermería Psiquiátrica; Continuidad de la Atención al Paciente; Enfermería.

Returning to daily life after psychiatric admission can be difficult and complex. We aimed to explore, describe and interpret the lived experience of returning to everyday life after the first psychiatric admission. We designed this research as a qualitative study, using van Manen’s phenomenology of practice. We collected experiential material through phenomenological interviews with 12 participants, from 5 June 2018 to 18 December 2018. From the thematic and hermeneutic analysis, we captured seven themes: (1) (un)veiling the imprint within the self; (2) the haunting memories within the self; (3) from disconnection to the assimilation of the medicated body in the self; (4) from recognition to overcoming the fragility within the self; (5) the relationship with health professionals: from expectation to response; (6) the relationship with others: reformulating the bonds of alterity; (7) the relationship with the world: reconnecting as a sense of self. The results allow us to establish the phenomenon as a difficult, complex, demanding and lengthily transitional event that calls into question the person’s stability and ability for well-being and more-being. Thus, implementing structured transitional interventions by health services seems crucial. Mental health specialist nurses can present a pivotal role in establishing a helping relationship with recovery-oriented goals, coordinating patients’ transitional care, and assuring continuity of care sensitive to the person’s subjective experiences, volitions, and resources.

Background: Compassion fatigue is a common phenomenon among healthcare professionals and includes several concepts that share a direct relationship with quality of life, with consequences on both physical and emotional well-being but also at the economic and organizational levels. Objectives: To analyze the profile of scientific publications on compassion fatigue, dissecting trends, and highlighting research opportunities. Method: Bibliometric analysis based on Donthu’s guidelines, data collection from Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), and analytic techniques (performance analysis and science mapping) with VOSviewer® and CiteSpace®. Results: We obtained 1364 articles and found that the concept emerged in 1995 and is frequently associated with areas of general health. Through analysis, we identified the following research frontiers: “vicarious traumatization”, “working”, “survivor”, “mental health”, and “impact”. Conclusion: There has been a growing interest in this subject among researchers, with an increase in scientific production related to areas of health such as nursing, providing a solid starting point for further investigation. Registration number from the Open Science Framework: osf.io/b3du8.

Returning to daily life after a psychiatric hospitalization is described as complicated and challenging. Based on a phenomenological study centered on the lived experience of people who returned to everyday life after the first hospitalization in a psychiatric unit, the authors aim to focus on the emerging metaphors that stood out from the participants' narratives as they express, in a particularly vocative manner, the primordial meanings of their lived experience during this period. Through these metaphors, they capture the intrinsic pre-reflective conceptualizations of this phenomenon and, therefore, produce understandings of how this phenomenon is experientially lived. The unique word sequence that each participant chose to describe their experience pushes us to rethink the value of narrative within healthcare. This chapter elaborates how these metaphorical phenomenological findings can provide insights into this particular human phenomenon and contribute to more action-sensitive knowledge.

Background: Dementia stands out as a neurological disorder which constitutes a progressive decline in cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and social functioning. However, non-pharmacotherapy, such as music therapy, can be combined with pharmacological treatment as a possible strategy to improve functionality regarding the cognitive and non-cognitive dimensions of people diagnosed with dementia. Objectives: To analyze and synthesize published evidence regarding the effectiveness of music therapy in people diagnosed with dementia, concerning cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes. Design: Descriptive study protocol of an umbrella review. Methods and analysis: An umbrella review method will guide this study, focusing on an extensive search of published systematic reviews and meta-analyses reviews that include randomized controlled trials and other types of trials. Databases for the article search include ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, and Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) EBP database, and EBSCO Host platform (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, MEDLINE, and CINAHL). Two reviewers will independently review all titles and abstracts and identify articles considering the inclusion criteria. Afterward, two reviewers will independently extract relevant information from each article for the characterization table, and evaluate the quality of selected articles using the Measurement Tool for Evaluating Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) 2 guideline. Relevance to clinical practice: Data from this study will aid in designing healthcare workers' training courses, clinical intervention guidelines, and specific intervention protocols that support pharmacological interventions in treating dementia.