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The Lived Experience Of Families With A Mentally Ill Family Member, Moses Wankiiri, Karen B. Drake, Kimberley R. Meyer
The Lived Experience Of Families With A Mentally Ill Family Member, Moses Wankiiri, Karen B. Drake, Kimberley R. Meyer
School of Nursing & Midwifery, East Africa
The study of the lived experience of families with a mentally ill family member involved seven family members who had come to visit their mentally ill relatives in the mental Hospital. The major objective was to explore the lived experience of families with a persistent1 mentally ill family member. The study adopted a qualitative descriptive-phenomenological design, participants were purposively sampled and data was collected using a tape recorder. Colaizzi’s phenomenological approach for data management was then employed. The study revealed that family members held misconceptions about mental illness
and described care as a contractual obligation. They lived in misery as …