It's a little bit like prison, but not that much: Aboriginal women's experiences of an acute mental health inpatient unit.
aboriginal
culture
inpatient
mental health
recovery
women
Journal
International journal of mental health nursing
ISSN: 1447-0349
Titre abrégé: Int J Ment Health Nurs
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 101140527
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2021
Aug 2021
Historique:
accepted:
09
01
2021
pubmed:
26
2
2021
medline:
29
7
2021
entrez:
25
2
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This research aimed to gain an understanding of the acute mental health inpatient experience as described by Aboriginal women during admission. It recorded for the first time the words of Aboriginal women within the inpatient unit, including their perceptions of factors which may promote or impede a culturally safe environment. Eleven Aboriginal women inpatients gave interviews before discharge from the inpatient unit. Five Aboriginal Reference Group (ARG) members with experience of the inpatient unit also gave interviews, adding 'insider-outsider' perspectives. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, entered into NVivo software, and analysed inductively to raise codes and develop themes. Five interconnecting themes emerged: Social Context: life experience preceding, shaping, and following admission; Connection: with kin, community, and culture. Control: self-determination, legally and physically curtailed; Caring: actions promoting reconnection and self-determination; Communication: conveying caring and supporting agency, reconnection, and return to community. Findings reflected inpatient issues reported in previous studies, adding insights into the cultural concerns of Aboriginal women and offering practical clinical implications for culturally secure service delivery in an inpatient setting. Existing literature offered a basis for developing the model offered here for transcultural interaction for recovery in an inpatient setting. Attention to these findings can enhance Aboriginal women's inpatient experience and promote further research. The article complies with the COREQ-32 checklist for describing qualitative studies.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
917-930Informations de copyright
© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
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