Neglected sexual needs: A qualitative study in Iranian patients with severe mental illness
| Autor: | Seyyed Taha Yahyavi, Zahra Shahvari, Zahra Mirsepassi, Firoozeh Raisi, Reihaneh Firoozikhojastefar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Attitude of Health Personnel Health Personnel Human sexuality Context (language use) Iran Nonprobability sampling Interviews as Topic 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine medicine Psychiatric hospital Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Qualitative Research 030504 nursing business.industry Communication Mental Disorders General Medicine Middle Aged Mental illness medicine.disease Family medicine Female Pshychiatric Mental Health Communication skills 0305 other medical science business Healthcare providers Sexuality Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Perspectives in psychiatric care. 54(4) |
| ISSN: | 1744-6163 |
| Popis: | Background This paper has attempted to explore views of patients with severe mental illness and their care providers about sharing sexual problems with care providers in these patients within the context of Iran. Method A total of 17 in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted in one of the psychiatric hospital in Tehran: 4 with patients, 2 with patient's family, and 11 with health providers who had been employed for 5 years in psychiatric wards at least. All participants were selected by purposive sampling. Using conventional qualitative content analysis data reduction was done. Findings A total of 89 codes about the reasons for lack of communication between clinician and patients, about sexuality were extracted. These are classified in two categories. The first is "Clinicians avoidance from addressing sexual issues" and second is "Patients avoidance from expressing their sexual problems." Conclusion Despite having sexual needs, severe mental illnesses patients do not disclose it due to poor communication between clinician and patients, about sexuality. So, physician had to be pioneer in communicating with them. Therefore, to enhance clinicians' sexual knowledge and effective communication skills with patients, especially those with severe mental illnesses, training is completely necessary. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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