Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9643290 Archives of Psychiatric Nursing 2005 6 Pages PDF
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore self-care management strategies for auditory hallucinations (AHs) among inpatients with schizophrenia. Self-report and semistructured questionnaires were used to identify 36 self-management strategies of 200 inpatients with schizophrenia living at a veterans' hospital in Taiwan. The most commonly used management category was behavioral change and the most commonly used strategy was ignoring the AHs. The most common resource for strategies was self-learning. These results can help broaden health care providers' understanding about self-care management strategies for coping with AHs among inpatients with schizophrenia. Developing a manual containing selected self-care strategies and incorporating those strategies into cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy could be useful and beneficial to patients experiencing AHs.
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