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- Community care has transformed psychiatric treatment globally, but many developing countries, like Taiwan, struggle with its implementation.
- The study focused on the challenges faced by mentally ill individuals in Taiwan, identifying social disadvantages and illness adaptation as key difficulties.
- Six themes emerged from the research: stigma of illness, unmet community care needs, distorted perceptions, denial of the illness, daily living with the illness, and adjusting to new functional abilities, along with related cultural issues.
Article Abstract
Community care has been a paradigm shift for psychiatric treatment worldwide; however, it has not been successfully implemented in many developing countries, including Taiwan. This qualitative study aimed to explore the Taiwanese mentally ill persons' difficulties living in the community. Social disadvantages and illness adaptation were recognized as two domains of difficulties encountered by Taiwanese mentally ill patients living in the community, while six themes were identified: getting a "shameful" illness, unmet needs for community care, being overcome by a distorted world, denying the illness, living with the illness, and adapting to changed level of functioning. Related cultural issues were also discussed.
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