A Survey on Community dwelling Mentally Ill Patients Who could not be Accessed by a Community Health Center.
- Author:
Jeong Suk REU
1
;
Myung Hee KIM
;
Chu Young JEONG
Author Information
1. Busan Metropolitan City, Jung-gu Public Health Center, Busan, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Community health center;
Mentally ill persons
- MeSH:
Community Health Centers;
Compliance;
Humans;
Hygiene;
Mentally Ill Persons;
Referral and Consultation;
Rejection (Psychology);
Risk Factors;
Social Problems;
Violence;
Weapons
- From:Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Nursing
2012;15(2):91-99
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the frequency and status of mentally ill patients who registered in a community health center (CHC) but they could not be accessed. METHODS: A total of 233 mentally ill individuals who were registered to a CHC in B Metropolitan City participated in this survey. Data were collected from December 1 to 31, 2010 and analyzed. RESULTS: There were 140 (60.1%) community dwelling mentally ill patients who had been registered to that CHC but were not accessible. The major reasons of this inaccessibility were patients' rejection to be accessed (27.1%) and the wrong or missing address in hospital's discharge note (22.9%). The nursing problems of the subjects were rejection of medication (93.4%); poor personal hygiene (85.8%); violence including harassment of family member(s), assault, property destruction, threat with weapon (38.7%); and so on. Among 159 cases of referrals and requests for help immediate action with patient's compliance were only 8.8%. CONCLUSION: The findings show that mentally ill patients who had registered to the CHC but were not able to be accessed failed to be managed properly. This would become risk factors of social problems which threat to the community as well as individuals. Thus, we need to prepare programs for this population to make them take medicine at a minimum.
