Features of everyday life in psychiatric inpatient care for self-harming: An observational study of six women

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 82-88

  Lindgren, Britt Marie ^a   Aminoff, Carina ^a   Graneheim, Ulla Hällgren ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921782717     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01612840.2014.941077     Document Type: Article

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