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ARCHIVES OF PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages 266-276Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2007.07.002
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Community care has been a paradigm shift for psychiatric treatment worldwide; however, it has not been successfully implemented in many developing countries, including Taiwan. This qualitative study aimed to explore the Taiwanese mentally ill persons' difficulties living in the community. Social disadvantages and illness adaptation were recognized as two domains of difficulties encountered by Taiwanese mentally ill patients living in the community, while six themes were identified: getting a shameful illness, unmet needs for community care, being overcome by a distorted world, denying the illness, living with the illness, and adapting to changed level of functioning. Related cultural issues were also discussed. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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