Nurses' dilemmas concerning support of relatives in mental health care

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 285-299

  Weimand, Bente M ^a,b   Sällström, Christina ^b   Hall Lord, Marie Louise ^b,c   Hedelin, Birgitta ^b,c  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Focus group interviews; mental health nursing; moral distress; phenomenography; relatives of persons with severe mental illness; support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; CLASSIFICATION; COST OF ILLNESS; ETHICS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORAL DISTRESS; NORWAY; NURSING; PHENOMENOGRAPHY; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELATIVES OF PERSONS WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS; REVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUPPORT; WORKPLACE;

FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS; MENTAL HEALTH NURSING; MORAL DISTRESS; PHENOMENOGRAPHY; RELATIVES OF PERSONS WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS; SUPPORT;

ADULT; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84876958752     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969733012462053     Document Type: Review

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