MENTAL HEALTH CARE PRACTICE

Evaluation of Research Articles Relevant to Mental Health Care Practice

Evaluation of Research Articles Relevant to Mental Health Care Practice

Introduction

Schizophrenia is a devastating mental illness, and one of a larger class of psychotic disorders defined by the presence of delusions and/or hallucinations. Frequency of being schizophrenic is almost equal in men and women with equal frequency. Schizophrenia directly affects the cognitive capacity of a person and influences the mental ability.

Sources of Information

Science Direct and Sage were used to access articles relevant to mental healthcare practice.

Search strategy

Search data was limited to 10 years with date ranges between Jan 01, 2002 to May 19, 2011. Following keywords were used for each of the components related to topic, i.e. schizophrenia and recovery.

Schizophrenia:

Schizophrenia AND diagnosis

Recovery:

Recovery OR treatment OR recovery process

Exclusion Criteria

-Meta-analyses and Reviews

-Studies examined two mental disorders simultaneously

-Papers published before 2002.

Inclusion Criteria

- Primary researches, either qualitative or quantitative in nature

- Survey, experiment, descriptive research, phenomenology, or ethnography research methodology have been used

- Patients have been diagnosed as only with Schizophrenia

Search Results

Search on Sage and Science Direct cumulatively provided 1069 results related to diagnosis and recovery from Schizophrenia Disease. Exclusion criteria refined the search to 394 papers. From that, data was filtered to 24 acceptable study papers involving recovery from Schizophrenia Disease. Final two selected papers from search strategy are:

Shea, J. (2009). Coming Back Normal: Process of Self-Recovery in those with schizophrenia. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 16(1); 43-51 2.

Jenkins, J. (2005). Subjective Experience of Recovery from Schizophrenia-Related Disorders and Atypical Antipsychotic, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 51: 211.

Evaluation of Research Studies - Article 1

Introduction to Paper

Multiple researches have been conducted to determine the impact of self-identity in recovery from contagious and mental diseases (Parahoo, 2006). In this paper, researchers determine the self-identity as a key part of recovery in individuals suffering from schizophrenia. Past studies have enabled the researchers to understand how identity changes occur in people suffering from schizophrenia.

Aims of Study

The Study relates to examine the process by which individuals with schizophrenia reconstruct their self-identity has provided significant insight to understand its impact on the recovery process (Shea, 2009).

Methodology

Research Design

In this paper, author established the quantitative research methods by establishing the grounded theory design. This approach was chosen to develop an understanding of the process of self-identity reconstruction as described by individuals with schizophrenia who was living in the community. This study focused on examining the self-identity concept and how does it influenced people attitude towards recovery. Quantitative research method (survey) was chosen to gather information about respondents' demographic, diagnostic, and behavioural information who was schizophrenia patients. Sampling and Data Collection

Sampling

Selective sampling technique was employed in the study. Sample size comprised of 10 participants who were selected through their primary clinician. Only those individuals in the study were selected who were capable of speaking English. Participation was also limited to people who had schizophrenia disorder.

Methods of Data Collection

Survey method was applied in the research to collect data. Data was gathered through semi-structured interviews addressing the component variables of ...