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Patient Experience Measurement Ignores Mental Health: Suggestions For Healthcare Organizations, Mona Shattell Phd, Rn, Faan, Andrew Gallan Phd
Patient Experience Measurement Ignores Mental Health: Suggestions For Healthcare Organizations, Mona Shattell Phd, Rn, Faan, Andrew Gallan Phd
Mona Shattell
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Beyond Easy Answers: Facing The Entanglements Of Violence And Psychosis, Nev Jones, Mona Shattell Phd, Rn, Faan
Beyond Easy Answers: Facing The Entanglements Of Violence And Psychosis, Nev Jones, Mona Shattell Phd, Rn, Faan
Mona Shattell
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Smoking Cessation Among Persons With Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorder And Mental Illness, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Milan Khara
Smoking Cessation Among Persons With Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorder And Mental Illness, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Milan Khara
Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli
Aims: A history of either a substance use disorder (SUD) or psychiatric disorder (PD) is associated with tobacco use. However, there is limited information available on tobacco dependence treatment outcomes among individuals with co-occurring SUD and PD. Methods: Data from 202 participants enrolled in a tobacco dependence treatment program in an outpatient clinic setting were analysed. Findings: In multivariate analysis, having a history of SUD only (OR =.11, 95% CI = .02–.76) and having a co-occurring SUD and PD (OR = .13, 95% CI = .02–.81), as compared to having neither, were significant predictors of a lower likelihood of achieving …
What's Therapeutic About The Therapeutic Milieu?, Sandra Thomas, M. Shattell, T. Martin
What's Therapeutic About The Therapeutic Milieu?, Sandra Thomas, M. Shattell, T. Martin
Sandra Thomas
While the milieu of an inpatient facility is considered a treatment modality, extant literature focuses on the staff's role in creating the milieu rather than the patient's perception of it. Not since Goffman's Asylums (1961) has there been an in-depth examination of the phenomenal world of the hospitalized psychiatric patient. In this study, eight inpatients (ages 23 to 58) on the acute psychiatric unit of a metropolitan general hospital participated in phenomenological interviews about their experience of the environment. The essential meaning of the hospital was refuge from self-destructiveness. Prominent aspects of patients' experience within the place of refuge were …