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Rural nurses: a convenient co-location strategy for the rural mental health care of young people.
- Source :
- Journal of Clinical Nursing (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.); Sep2015, Vol. 24 Issue 17-18, p2638-2648, 11p, 1 Diagram, 1 Chart, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Aims and Objectives The aim of this research was to understand new ways that young rural people with mental health problems could be helped at an early point in their mental health decline. Background Rural nurses represent skilled mental health helping capital in their local communities, yet this important mental health helping resource, or helping capital, is both under-recognised and under-used in providing early mental health help in rural communities. In recent years international momentum has gathered in support of a paradigm change to reform the delivery of youth mental health services so that they align more closely to the developmental and social needs of young people with mental health problems. Design A mixed methods case study design was used to explore the early mental health care needs of young rural people. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted and data were analysed with descriptive techniques. In-depth interviews were conducted and the transcribed data were analysed using thematic techniques. Results The results of this study demonstrate that in general rural people are willing to seek mental health care, and that rural nurses are well suited to provide initial care to young people. Conclusions Non-traditional venues such as community, school and justice settings are ideal places where more convenient first conversations about mental health with young people and their families, and rural nurses should be deployed to these settings. Relevance to Clinical Practice Rural nurses are able to contribute important initial engagement interventions that enhance the early mental health care for young people when it is needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CONCEPTUAL structures
CONTENT analysis
STATISTICAL correlation
HEALTH services accessibility
HELP-seeking behavior
INTERVIEWING
RESEARCH methodology
CASE studies
MENTAL health services
QUESTIONNAIRES
RURAL health services
STATISTICAL sampling
RURAL nursing
QUALITATIVE research
SOCIAL capital
QUANTITATIVE research
THEMATIC analysis
CROSS-sectional method
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09621067
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 17-18
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Clinical Nursing (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 109114032
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12882