Nurses' perceptions of involving family members in the care of mental health care users.

Nkhensani F Mabunda
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Background:  Family involvement in mental health care is a therapeutic intervention in the management of mental illness. The global concern in long-term mental health is that families find it difficult to accept mental illness when their loved ones are admitted to receive care, treatment and rehabilitation.

Objectives:  To describe nurses' perceptions of involving family members in the care of mental health care users in long-term institutions.

Method:  A quantitative descriptive design was used. The population comprised nurses working at three mental health institutions (MHIs). Probability simple random sampling was used to select 360 respondents. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires.

Results:  The findings revealed that most (86.9%) of the nurses acknowledged that challenges affect families' involvement in mental health care. A total of 91.4% of nurses complained that family members' involvement was insufficient and (80.6%) indicated that poor family contact affects the provision of quality mental health care. Therefore, the respondents believed that the families' involvement has an impact on the management of mental illness.

Conclusion:  Engaging family members in mental health care helps both health professionals and families to participate in patient-centred care and mental health care services. However, MHCUs benefit when their families are involved.Contribution: The study contributed to mental health nursing as its results can be used to measure the quality of health services improvements, by involving the family members during hospitalisation of their loved ones for mental health care.

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护士对让家庭成员参与精神健康护理使用者护理的看法。
背景: 家庭参与精神健康护理是精神疾病管理中的一种治疗干预措施。全球对长期精神健康的关注是,当他们的亲人入院接受护理、治疗和康复时,家人很难接受精神疾病: 描述护士对让家庭成员参与长期机构中精神疾病患者护理的看法: 方法:采用定量描述性设计。研究对象包括在三家精神健康机构(MHIs)工作的护士。采用概率简单随机抽样法选出了 360 名受访者。数据收集采用自填式问卷: 调查结果显示,大多数护士(86.9%)都承认挑战会影响家庭参与精神健康护理。共有 91.4%的护士抱怨家庭成员的参与不足,80.6%的护士表示与家庭的联系不畅影响了提供高质量的精神健康护理。因此,受访者认为家庭成员的参与对精神疾病的管理有影响: 让家庭成员参与到精神健康护理中来,有助于医护人员和家庭共同参与到以病人为中心的护理和精神健康护理服务中来。然而,当家庭参与其中时,精神健康护理单位也会从中受益:本研究对心理健康护理做出了贡献,因为其结果可用于衡量医疗服务质量的改善情况,即让家庭成员在其亲人住院接受心理健康护理期间参与其中。
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