The lived experience of patients with bipolar disorder with adapting their lifestyle to their condition.

Background: An important element of self-management strategies for people with bipolar disorder is adapting their lifestyle to their condition, since this improves their quality of life. However, not all people with bipolar disorder succeed in lifestyle adaptation. Knowledge about their lived experience with adaptation would enhance understanding about how healthcare providers optimize support.

Emergency care to 'persons with confused behavior': Lived experiences of, and collaboration between, police and members of a mobile crisis team - A hermeneutic-phenomenological study.

Background: Police officers and members of a mobile crisis team (MCT) are the two actors who respond to nuisance in Dutch society related to 'persons with confused behavior' and serious violent incidents. Their collaboration creates tension and dissatisfaction about roles and responsibilities.

Aim: To explore the lived experiences of, and collaboration between, police officers and members of a MCT.

Experiences of Dutch ambulance nurses in emergency care for patients with acute manic and/or psychotic symptoms: A qualitative study.

Purpose: To explore the experiences of ambulance nurses in emergency care of patients with acute manic and/or psychotic symptoms.

Methods: In this qualitative study, 14 interviews were conducted and analyzed using thematic analysis according to Braun and Clarke (2006).

Findings: Psychiatric emergency care causes stress and uncomfortable feelings for ambulance nurses due to a lack of information on the patients, being alone with the patient in a small place and the unpredictability of the situation.

Nursing Care for Patients With Acute Mania: Exploring Experiential Knowledge and Developing a Standard of Good Care-Results of the Delphi Study.

Background: When patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder are suffering from acute mania (involuntary), hospitalization is often necessary. Patients are often quite disruptive, which makes it difficult to regulate their behavior and manage them in their current condition. The nursing team must also ensure the safety of the other patients on the ward.

Show yourself, experiences of patients with bipolar disorder recording a film to show their "euthymic being": A qualitative study.

Purpose: To examine the experiences of outpatients with bipolar disorder recording a 10-minute film to show their "being" in a euthymic mood state.

Design And Methods: A multicenter qualitative study, in the context of a feasibility study for a newly developed intervention. Data were analyzed using the Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen method.

Patient experiences with nursing care during hospitalization on a closed ward due to a manic episode: A qualitative study.

Purpose: To describe the experiences of patients with nursing care they had received when hospitalized for mania.

Design And Methods: Multicenter qualitative study using open interviews. Data were analyzed using the Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen method.

Emergency care in case of acute psychotic and/or manic symptoms: Lived experiences of patients and their families with the first interventions of a mobile crisis team. A phenomenological study.

Purpose: To explore the lived experiences of patients with a psychotic or bipolar disorder and their families with emergency care during the first contact with a mobile crisis team.

Methods: Open individual interviews were held with ten patients and ten family members. Content data-analysis was conducted.

A qualitative study of nursing care for hospitalized patients with acute mania.

Patients with a bipolar disorder and currently experiencing acute mania often require hospitalization. We explored patient problems, desired patient outcomes, and nursing interventions by individually interviewing 22 nurses. Qualitative content analysis gave a top five of patients problems, desired patient outcomes and nursing interventions, identified as most important in the interviews.

Regained control: a phenomenological study of the use of a relapse prevention plan by patients with a bipolar disorder.

Purpose: To explore the lived experiences with the development and use of a relapse prevention plan by patients with a bipolar disorder.

Design And Methods: In this phenomenological study, we conducted unstructured interviews. Colaizzi's data analysis method was used.