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Healthcare professionals’ encountering Experience of the Youths with Non-suicidal Self-injury in Acute Psychiatric Ward

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

A.-N. Pan  and
E.C.-L. Lin
A.-N. Pan*
Affiliation:
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Department Of Nursing, Tainan City, Taiwan
E.C.-L. Lin
Affiliation:
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Department Of Nursing, Tainan City, Taiwan
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Non-suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) refers to causing damage on body tissue without attending to death. It is mostly presented among the youths and not approved by the society. Studies nowadays have explored the perspectives, feelings or experience of the youths or healthcare professionals. However, negative feelings and misunderstandings toward each other remain from both sides.

Objectives

The aim was to explore the encountering experience of the youths with NSSI and the healthcare professionals during the same hospitalization in a psychiatric acute ward.

Methods

Qualitative study was employed by using narrative approach. In-depth interview was conducted for the youths with NSSI and their primary nurse and resident from a medical center in southern Taiwan.

Results

Narratives from the patients and healthcare professionals showed that the youths seemed to be comfortable as encountering with the healthcare professionals’ caring. In contrast, the healthcare professionals’ struggles had been hidden inside and remained uneasy and unsolved. Two extreme experiences have been reported by the youths with NSSI: felt satisfied and understood about being cared vs. felt numbness and not been understood. Four kinds of experience were identified as: struggling on caring them, feeling confused and helpless, keeping a safe distance, and having contradicted values.

Conclusions

This study found that the healthcare professionals suffer from varied aspects when encountering the youths with NSSI, which they often hid inside without expressing. Future improvement such as care guideline or staff’s support system should be built to decrease the negative effects inside the healthcare professionals’ mind.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

encountering experiencenarrative inquiryHealthcare professionalsNon-suicidal self-injury
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European Psychiatry , Volume 65 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry , June 2022 , pp. S615
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