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- Title
Challenges faced when living with schizophrenia in the community: A narrative inquiry.
- Authors
Gong, Jin Wei; Luo, Dan; Liu, Wen Jia; Zhang, Juan; Chen, Zi Ru; Wang, Qin-Yu; Yang, Xin Yi; Yang, Bing Xiang; Huang, Hai-Shan; Wang, Xiao Qin
- Abstract
Background: Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder. People with schizophrenia have transferred from hospital-based care to community-based care with the support of mental health legal policies. Challenges faced in the community should be emphasized. Limited qualitative studies have explored the challenges of living with schizophrenia. Aims: To explore the challenges of people living with schizophrenia in the community. Methods: A narrative method was used, including semi-structured, face-to-face interviews. Thematic analysis approach was used to analyze data. Results: Ten clients and their family members participated in the study. Analysis revealed three main themes related to their challenges in the community: deficits in self-management of illness; insufficient community mental health care; and the influence of policy. These challenges prevent those with schizophrenia from effectively managing their illness, returning to a productive role in society, and improving their quality of life. Conclusions: There are challenges in mental health rehabilitation and social reintegration of individuals with schizophrenia. There is a need for continuous community mental rehabilitation services, appropriate policy support, and the need to educate the public to reduce social bias and discrimination which allows individuals with schizophrenia to assume a productive role in the community.
- Subjects
SCHIZOPHRENIA; HEALTH policy; PSYCHOTHERAPY patients; HEALTH services accessibility; SOCIAL support; RESEARCH methodology; INTERVIEWING; PATIENTS' attitudes; QUALITATIVE research; INDEPENDENT living; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; QUALITY of life; RESEARCH funding; THEMATIC analysis; REHABILITATION; HEALTH self-care
- Publication
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2023, Vol 69, Issue 2, p420
- ISSN
0020-7640
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1177/00207640221109168