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Effect of Ward Atmosphere on Everyday Life of Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients: Patients’ Perspectives

Amal Alhossainy Ramadan

Abstract


Ward atmosphere has long been viewed as a potentially important factor underlying the efficacy of psychiatric inpatient facilities to promote recovery through a process of encouraging individual empowerment and respect for the mentally ill patient as a consumer and partner. Aim: this study aimed to explain the effect of ward atmosphere on everyday life of hospitalized psychiatric patients as perceived by patients. Methods: sequential explanatory design was utilized in this study. Structured interview followed by unstructured interview were conducted with a sample of one hundred hospitalized psychiatric patients at Psychiatric Medicine and Addiction Prevention Hospital – El Manial Hospital of Cairo University. Two tools were utilized: socio-demographic data sheet and short version of Ward Atmosphere Scale (WAS-S). Results: three themes were extracted after analysis of the participants' verbatim which are: ward atmosphere has no effect on everyday life, ward atmosphere has bad effect on everyday life and ward atmosphere has good effect on everyday life. The study concluded that, mentally ill patients have positive and negative perspectives of the effect of ward atmosphere on the everyday life.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijnn.v4i1.590

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