Study on process that a mental patient starts consultation:A life story of the time before they are treated and the consideration

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25463588
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gerontological nursing
• Research Institution: National Center for Global Health and Medicine (2015); Kitasato University (2013-2014)
• Principal Investigator: Mori Makiko 国立研究開発法人国立国際医療研究センター, その他部局等, 教授 (80386789)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OZAKI Akiko 東北大学, 大学院医学系研究科, 教授 (30305429)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MORITA Makiko 首都大学東京, 健康福祉学部, 助教 (70582998)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 未治療期 / ライフストーリー / レジリアンス / 地域精神保健福祉 / 精神障害者

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We carried out interview　about the anteroposterior episode to contract disease and the process before first consultation for nine people with mental disability and analyzed the data by GTA.[First morbid experience and environment to surround] promoted [Awareness of the need of the consultation] and led to [Realization of the first consultation]. However, they experienced [Change of the treatment regimen] by lack of trust for medical care and actual feeling of curative effect. They held feeling of imperfection and uneasiness while they realized [Transformation of the sense of values] and [Change of their course] through the encounter with experts and friends. Most of them regained health to cause [Knowledge and technical acquisition] and [Action for the acquisition of the qualification, to obtain opportunity of their working], but others without having the ability that is interested in by others and had difficulty in continuation of the confidence to others couldn't reach those change.

Free Research Field

精神看護学