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Mental Health Consumer Experiences and Strategies When Seeking Physical Health Care: A Focus Group Study
Global qualitative nursing research, Vol.3, pp.2333393616631679-2333393616631679
03/03/2016
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Abstract
People with mental illness have higher rates of physical health problems and consequently live significantly shorter lives. This issue is not yet viewed as a national health priority and research about mental health consumer views on accessing physical health care is lacking. The aim of this study is to explore the experience of mental health consumers in utilizing health services for physical health needs. Qualitative exploratory design was utilized. Semistructured focus groups were held with 31 consumer participants. Thematic analysis revealed that three main themes emerged: scarcity of physical health care, with problems accessing diagnosis, advice or treatment for physical health problems; disempowerment due to scarcity of physical health care; and tenuous empowerment describing survival resistance strategies utilized. Mental health consumers were concerned about physical health and the nonresponsive health system. A specialist physical health nurse consultant within mental health services should potentially redress this gap in health care provision.
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- Title
- Mental Health Consumer Experiences and Strategies When Seeking Physical Health Care: A Focus Group Study
- Creators
- Stephanie B. Ewart - University of CanberraJulia Bocking - University of CanberraBrenda Happell - University of CanberraChris Platania-Phung - University of CanberraRobert Stanton - Central Queensland University
- Publication Details
- Global qualitative nursing research, Vol.3, pp.2333393616631679-2333393616631679
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Identifiers
- 991013036380602368
- Copyright
- Creative Commons CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article