Consumer providers' experiences of recovery, worry and anxiety as members of a psychiatric multidisciplinary outreach team

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24792592
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Community health/Gerontological nurisng
• Research Institution: St. Luke's International University
• Principal Investigator: KIDO Yoshifumi 聖路加国際大学, 看護学部, 助教 (70610319)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: アウトリーチ / ピアサポーター / 多職種連携 / 質的記述的研究

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The objective of this study is to clarify how consumer providers (CPs) felt about their subjective experiences through providing services to untreated individuals and individuals who have suspended treatment as members of a psychiatric multidisciplinary outreach team. A qualitative descriptive study was conducted. The participants were people who worked as CPs in the Japanese Outreach Model Project (2011-2014) and 9 CPs participated in this study. In the process of providing services, they found a diverse sense of achievement through the recovery of the people they were supporting, and they had the feelings that they were also recovering themselves. Nevertheless, they felt worries and anxieties about their complex position as having a specialization on the multidisciplinary team and being support staff while still being service users themselves. The results seem to show that the activities of CPs face similar dilemmas in Japan as with previous studies conducted in Western countries.

Free Research Field

精神看護学