Experiences of adult immigrants with posttraumatic stress disorder – challenges for nurses when providing evidence-based nursing care
Onyemaucheya, Kelechi (2015)
Yrkeshögskolan Novia
2015
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015120719603
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015120719603
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder remains a chronic pyschiatric disorder affecting significant number of people exposed to traumatic events.This has created a significant morbidity among sufferers and shows a substantial impact on health systems, society and the person’s daily living activities.The aim of this study is to describe how immigrant patients with PTSD experience nursing care.
Collection of data were accessed through Nelli portal database and qualitative content analysis was used to abstract findings and the findings were grouped according to similar themes. Three main themes emerged from this data analysis ranging from communication need, somatization and need for psychological support and cultural influences affecting diagnosis. With high percentage of displaced people currently increasing around the world due to push factors of migration, there exit a high challenge in the field of mental health.Nurses remain the primary healthcare professionals to bear the most burden,so there is need for culturally congruent care to achieve good quality of care based on evidence-based practice.The results highlighted different interpretation of experiences by immigrant patients and this suggest that there is need for nursing be culturally competent during nursing care delivery.
Collection of data were accessed through Nelli portal database and qualitative content analysis was used to abstract findings and the findings were grouped according to similar themes. Three main themes emerged from this data analysis ranging from communication need, somatization and need for psychological support and cultural influences affecting diagnosis. With high percentage of displaced people currently increasing around the world due to push factors of migration, there exit a high challenge in the field of mental health.Nurses remain the primary healthcare professionals to bear the most burden,so there is need for culturally congruent care to achieve good quality of care based on evidence-based practice.The results highlighted different interpretation of experiences by immigrant patients and this suggest that there is need for nursing be culturally competent during nursing care delivery.