TY - JOUR
T1 - The burden of caregiving among mental health nurses providing services to consumers with depression in Ghana
AU - Deborah, Tetteh Dela
AU - Anthony, Edusei Kwaku
AU - Badu, Eric
AU - Amy, Budu Ainooson
AU - Gyamfi, Naomi
AU - Josephine, Adusei Nkrumah
AU - Opoku, Maxwell Preprah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Purpose: The study aims to explore the burden of caregiving among mental health nurses providing services to consumers with depression in Ghana. Design and Methods: Interpretative phenomenological design and qualitative data. Findings: The study shows that several health system constraints and individual factors contribute to the burden of caregiving among mental health nurses. Health system challenges are the poor state of the psychiatric facility, while individual factors are stigmatizing attitudes, nonadherence to medication instructions, limited family support, and physical and verbal abuse. The coping strategies used by mental health nurses are self-motivation, emotional boundaries, and the perceived clinical outcomes of treatment. Practice Implications: Clinical policies, procedures, and health facility practices should adequately address caregiving challenges, to facilitate effective mental health services.
AB - Purpose: The study aims to explore the burden of caregiving among mental health nurses providing services to consumers with depression in Ghana. Design and Methods: Interpretative phenomenological design and qualitative data. Findings: The study shows that several health system constraints and individual factors contribute to the burden of caregiving among mental health nurses. Health system challenges are the poor state of the psychiatric facility, while individual factors are stigmatizing attitudes, nonadherence to medication instructions, limited family support, and physical and verbal abuse. The coping strategies used by mental health nurses are self-motivation, emotional boundaries, and the perceived clinical outcomes of treatment. Practice Implications: Clinical policies, procedures, and health facility practices should adequately address caregiving challenges, to facilitate effective mental health services.
KW - caregiving
KW - depression
KW - Ghana
KW - mental health nurses
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U2 - 10.1111/ppc.12377
DO - 10.1111/ppc.12377
M3 - Article
C2 - 30920680
AN - SCOPUS:85063573534
SN - 0031-5990
VL - 56
SP - 72
EP - 80
JO - Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
JF - Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
IS - 1
ER -
