Bu araştırmada şizofreni tanısı konmuş ve ailesi ile birlikte yaşayan hastaların günlük yaşam aktivitelerindeki bağımlılık durumu ile hastalara birinci derece bakım veren aile üyelerinin bakım yükü ve dışa vuran duygudurumu arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır.
The aging is a universal process to be observed in all living things and causing regression in all functions. The individuals may experience various problems biological, psychological and social dimensions together with the aging.The research is planned to consider the relationships between the self-efficacy levels and the depression in individuals older than 65 years. The sample of the research was 374 old individuals who were selected with the simple random sampling from the elder people to be registered in FHCs. The researchers used the socio-demographic question form to be formed through the literature review, Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and Self-efficacy Sufficiency Scale (SESS) to collect the data.When the socio-demographical features are compared with their self-efficacy and depression average scores; the difference between the SESS and GDS average points were found meaningful for the age, level of education, income level, marital status, living with whom, health status, perception of personal health and use of free times statistically (p<0.05). The negative correlation was found for the total SESS and GDS points of elder people (-0.491, p=0.000). Also, a positive correlation between the age and GDS (0.187, p=0.00), on the other hand, there was a negative correlation to be found between the age and SESS (-0.264, p=0.000) in the research.As a result, important evident was found indicating that the depression increases as the age is getting older, the self-efficacy decreases, and the negative correlation between the depression and self-efficacy for elder people, in the research.
The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and mindfulness-based psychoeducation given to schizophrenic patients for increasing insight. Design and Methods: This study was conducted as pre-experimental single group pretest-posttest model in a Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) located in the city center of Balıkesir, Turkey, with 55 patients. Findings: In patients graduating from university, posttest mean score of overall Beck Cognitive Insight Scale was higher than its pretest mean score and the difference between the mean scores was statistically significant (P < .05). Practical Implications: It is recommended to place mindfulness-based psychoeducation programs into routine treatment in CMHCs to increase the insight of schizophrenic patients.
ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to investigate how the patients perceive the hospital environment and how they express their needs with their opinions.MethodThis study was planned as a qualitative descriptive study. The sampling of the study is constituted by the acute-period patients hospitalized in the clinic of the Psychiatric Department for at least three days that can achieve an interview with the researcher and being voluntary to be included into the study. An “interview guidance” was formed by eleven questions to collect data. The interview guidance form contains the questions about how he or she spent one day in the clinical environment, what helps them in the clinical environment and what the needs are. The interviews were conducted by the researcher by making an explanation to the patients after signing their informed consents. During the interviews, voice records were taken with the permission of the patients and then these records were transcribed.ResultsIt has been seen that the patients need rather safe areas where they will live their loneliness but where they will stay lonely, the people and the environments in which and by which they will be listened without being judged.ConclusionPsychiatric nurse can provide care specific to individual for the acute-period patients by taking into account the expressions of patients. By this means, she can provide the hospitalization to be more favorable experience and she can prevent resistances and negative attitudes that can reveal in the following periods related with the hospitalization.
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