Applying a phenomenological method of analysis derived from Giorgi to a psychiatric nursing study

The purpose of this article is to describe patients' experiences of being helped during a period of psychiatric hospital care. Psychosis has traditionally been defined in medical and psychological terminology. The focus of psychiatric nursing is the human experience of distress associated with mental illness. The aim of psychiatric care is to promote healing and coping in daily life through support, validation and understanding. The main aim is to re-empower the patient with psychosis by using psychiatric care. The purposive sample consisted of interviews with nine voluntary patients recovering from psychosis. The interviewees told about their experiences of care. The verbatim transcripts were analysed using Giorgi's phenomenological method. Patients experienced care as helpful but unstructured: care facilitated their situation by alleviating the disorders, but it had not been defined by nurses, and the patients made their own conclusions about what care should be like. The care did not reach the inner world of the patients with psychosis. From the patients' point of view, care should protect them from vulnerability and empower/restructure their selves for coping in daily life.

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“…The similarities are general statements that may become part of the GDSS of the phenomenon (Giorgi 1985, e.g. Koivisto et al . 2002).…”

Section: Methods Of Studymentioning

confidence: 82%

“…The GDSS included every subject's specific situated structure, and the stages were (Giorgi 1985, e.g. Perttula 1998, Koivisto et al . 2002):…”

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confidence: 99%

Patients’ experiences of being helped in an inpatient setting

Koivisto¹,

Janhonen

Väisänen

2004

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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“…The security of a reliable body may be lost, with a loss of physiological homeostasis including altered sleeping patterns (Gee et al, 2003;Geanollos, 2005;Laithwaite et al, 2007;Nixon et al, 2010b), eating patterns, and new somatic pains (Koivisto et al, 2002).…”

Section: Sub-theme Iv: the Loss Of Security In Body And Worldmentioning

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What is psychosis? A meta-synthesis of inductive qualitative studies exploring the experience of psychosis

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“…The investigator must therefore compare each individual's situated specific structures with the others and identify the convergences and divergences. The similarities are general statements that may become part of the general description of the situated structure of the phenomenon (Giorgi 1985, Koivisto et al . 2002).…”

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confidence: 96%

“…These themes included specific constituents. Finally, a general description was formulated of the situated structure of patients’ experiences of psychosis and being helped (Koivisto et al . 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

Patients’ experiences of psychosis in an inpatient setting

Koivisto

Janhonen

Väisänen

2003

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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The aim of this report was to describe patients' experiences of psychosis in an inpatient setting. Mental illness, as a result of psychosis, has traditionally been defined from the viewpoint of clinical experts. Psychiatric nursing, as an interactive human activity, is more concerned with the development of the person than with the origins or causes of their present distress. Therefore, psychiatric nursing is based on eliciting personal experiences and assisting the person to reclaim her/his inner wisdom and power. The design of the study, in the report discussed below, was phenomenological. In 1998, nine patients were interviewed regarding their experiences of psychosis in an acute inpatient setting. The verbatim transcripts were analysed using Giorgi's phenomenological method. The participants experienced psychosis as an uncontrollable sense of self, which included feelings of change and a loss of control over one's self with emotional distress and physical pain. The participants described the vulnerability they had felt whilst having difficult and strange psychological feelings. The informants experienced both themselves and others sensitively, considered their family and friends important and meaningful, and found it difficult to manage their daily lives. Furthermore, the informants experienced the onset of illness as situational, the progress of illness as holistic and exhaustive, and the admission into treatment as difficult, but inevitable.

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Applying a phenomenological method of analysis derived from Giorgi to a psychiatric nursing study

Abstract: Phenomenological study and Giorgi's method of analysis are applicable while investigating psychiatric patients' experiences and give new knowledge of the experiences of patients and new views of how to meet patients' needs.

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Patients’ experiences of being helped in an inpatient setting

Patients’ experiences of being helped in an inpatient setting

What is psychosis? A meta-synthesis of inductive qualitative studies exploring the experience of psychosis

Patients’ experiences of psychosis in an inpatient setting

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