Boredom in acute psychiatric care.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Mona M. Shattell, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Patients hospitalized in acute care psychiatric settings often complain of boredom. Neither historical context nor geographical settings seem to make a difference. Boredom can be found in contemporary studies and older studies, in studies in the United States and the United Kingdom (Raphael, 1974; Raphael & Peers, 1972; Shields, Morrison, & Hart, 1988; Thomas, Shattell, & Martin, 2002). Boredom does not seem to correlate to how long a person has been in the hospital or model of health care delivery. Perhaps you can understand how patients would get bored after a 2-3 month stay as was customary in the past, but not today, with short 3-5 day hospitalizations. How do patients have time to be bored?
Boredom in acute psychiatric care.
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 28(6), 661-662
- Language: English
- Date: 2007
- Keywords
- Hospitalization, Acute psychiatric care, Boredom