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Article: Self-harm attempters’ perception of community services and its implication on service provision
Title | Self-harm attempters’ perception of community services and its implication on service provision |
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Keywords | Cognition Community health services Patients Self mutilation |
Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | Elsevier: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives License. The Journal's web site is located at https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-nursing-sciences/ |
Citation | International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 2018, v. 6 n. 1, p. 50-57 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Objective This study aimed at exploring the attempters’ perception of community social services included any barriers to seeking help and services. Method The participants were patients with self-harming behavior aged 15 years or above. A set of guiding questions were designed to explore the general barriers and accessibility to community social services. A voice recording was made, which was later converted into a text transcript and then preceded for content analysis with co-occurrence and similarity matrix interpretation. Two males and nine females with a history of self-harm aged between 24 and 58 years were recruited for the interviews. Result The participants had diverse experiences and backgrounds, and attitudes toward community social services. However, there was a shared perception of the need to enhance community social services. There were four main themes and 12 sub themes identified. The main theme included the service availability, service accessibility, affordability and acceptability. For details, participants were unaware of the available types of care/social services in the community, and were unaware about the nearby social services. They also suggested extending service hours and focused services should be offered to help people with different backgrounds and needs. Actually, those with experience of service utilization had both positive and negative perspectives and they gave suggestions for service delivery, mainly extending service hours and offering focused services such as for gambling control and financial planning. In view of interaction with service providers, counseling skills and trust were highly appreciated by the participants. Conclusion The results identified common circumstances of falling into financial hardship (gambling) and social fragmentation (divorce, poor family relationships, and poor marital relationships), which also suggested to enhance services on center location, service arrangement, and skill of caregivers. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/290964 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.953 |
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dc.contributor.author | Leung, M | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chow, CB | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ip, PK | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yip, SFP | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-02T05:49:37Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-11-02T05:49:37Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 2018, v. 6 n. 1, p. 50-57 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2352-0132 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/290964 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Objective This study aimed at exploring the attempters’ perception of community social services included any barriers to seeking help and services. Method The participants were patients with self-harming behavior aged 15 years or above. A set of guiding questions were designed to explore the general barriers and accessibility to community social services. A voice recording was made, which was later converted into a text transcript and then preceded for content analysis with co-occurrence and similarity matrix interpretation. Two males and nine females with a history of self-harm aged between 24 and 58 years were recruited for the interviews. Result The participants had diverse experiences and backgrounds, and attitudes toward community social services. However, there was a shared perception of the need to enhance community social services. There were four main themes and 12 sub themes identified. The main theme included the service availability, service accessibility, affordability and acceptability. For details, participants were unaware of the available types of care/social services in the community, and were unaware about the nearby social services. They also suggested extending service hours and focused services should be offered to help people with different backgrounds and needs. Actually, those with experience of service utilization had both positive and negative perspectives and they gave suggestions for service delivery, mainly extending service hours and offering focused services such as for gambling control and financial planning. In view of interaction with service providers, counseling skills and trust were highly appreciated by the participants. Conclusion The results identified common circumstances of falling into financial hardship (gambling) and social fragmentation (divorce, poor family relationships, and poor marital relationships), which also suggested to enhance services on center location, service arrangement, and skill of caregivers. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Elsevier: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives License. The Journal's web site is located at https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-nursing-sciences/ | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Nursing Sciences | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Cognition | - |
dc.subject | Community health services | - |
dc.subject | Patients | - |
dc.subject | Self mutilation | - |
dc.title | Self-harm attempters’ perception of community services and its implication on service provision | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Chow, CB: chowcb@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Ip, PK: patricip@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Yip, SFP: sfpyip@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Ip, PK=rp01337 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Yip, SFP=rp00596 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.ijnss.2018.12.003 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 31406869 | - |
dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC6608664 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85060909912 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 318431 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 6 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 50 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 57 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000456381500007 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Singapore | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 2352-0132 | - |