Cultural consideration of mental illness
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Cultural consideration of mental illness
A cultural perspective about mental health varies among people, beliefs, and families. The cultural and religious teaching influence beliefs on the origin and the nature of the mental illness and its shape attitude towards the mentally ill. In addition to influencing whether the sick mentally individuals experience some stigma, beliefs about the mental illness can affect the patents readiness and willingness to seek and adhere to the treatment. These make an essential aspect of understanding the individual and the cultural belief of the mental illness for the implementation of the best approaches to mental health care. Although some individual experiences some unique characteristics o the mental illness, as a nurse the there needs some sample of the cultural perspectives on the mental illness and hoe to improve the patient outcomes on the psychiatric unit. These require the clinical setting of the patient.
The increasing diversity of a nation brings in opportunities and challenges to the health providers, healthcare systems; thus, they need to create and deliver culturally competent services (Pearce & Koenig, 2013). This would help culturally qualified health care to improve health outcomes and quality care. This would help contribute to the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities. Some cultural respect would come from reducing health disparities and improving some access to high-quality health care that is respectful and responsive to the needs of diverse patients(Pearce & Koenig, 2013). Cultural factors that contribute to the causation of mental illness vary by the disorder. As a nurse, you have to understand what happens to the clinical settings before developing the mental health services to which are more responsive to the cultural contexts of the racial and ethnic minorities.
Mental illness stigma highlights a wide range of cultural beliefs surrounding mental health (Natalia et al., 2019). For example, some Americans and Indians do not stigmatize the mental illness where only some of them stigmatize some of the mental illness. In contrast, other tribes stigmatize all the sickness. In Asian cultures, they value the cultural norms through the emotional self-control and family recognition through achievement as mental illness brings shame to the stigmatized patients(Natalia et al., 2019). The stigmatization of mental illness can be influenced by other factors, such as the perceived cause of the disease. Some of the European countries, like the Chinese, make some conclusion that the individual illness is genetic(Natalia et al., 2019). The patients have to be asked how they feel if they date, marries, and reproduces in the subject of the vignette. The genetic contribution of the mental illness has significantly reduced the unwillingness to marry and propagate among the European countries. These have made the countries to develop some measures to these European people through supporting the previous finding of the cultural variation in the patterns of the mental illness stigmatization.
Nurses are supposed to make a clear interview of the patient to which should be made in a private place to avoid distractions(Alshowkan, 2015).The nurse should thus prepare to consult a member of the family about the patient behavior on the treatment. This is important so as if the patient is unable to provide reliable information about the psychiatric symptoms. This would help gather information about health records(Alshowkan, 2015). The nurse’s diagnosis should consist of the health problem, the contributing factors, and the defining characteristics. Some of the issues of the mental illness that affects individuals are the disorders and anxiety moods. Some psychiatric medications can help cure this but also depends on the body’s response to the medicine using the antidepressant(Alshowkan, 2015). As a nurse, before making a diagnosis, treatment should consider the patient culture and emotions before planning for the care. The planning of the nurse includes determining the priorities, setting goals selecting the nursing actions, and developing the patient care plan.
Although stigmatization also is not consistent with the communities or cultures as perceived by individuals of the population that are living with mental illness(Alshowkan, 2015).The world mental health surveys that stigma is closely associated with anxiety and some mood disorders that occurs to adults. The survey data shows that participants of mental illness individuals face discrimination and embarrassment due to their illness .however, some underestimate the extent of this disease that is associated with mental illness since they have been evaluated on disorders and anxiety moods.
When presenting with the mental health care services in sensitive cultural ways is essential to increasing access to and usage of the mental health care services(Alshowkan, 2015). Psychological health care services differ from the biomedical perspective on mental illness. For example, when dealing with depression that can be controlled in diverse ways of conceptualizations and treatment to maximize its approaches to the effectiveness of mental health care. To improve the accuracy of the patient, nurses also need effective communication with the patient and the families. These would help to improve on the safety of the medication and help them to eliminate the wrong site, wrong patient, and the incorrect procedure of the surgery(Alshowkan, 2015). Also, this would put the patient to the highest priority to reduce the infection rates of their patients .religion help to support and provide a sense of security to the patients and the believers. These would help the religion to make an act of acceptance to all the benefits of mental health.
In conclusion, mental illness is substantial to the community, and hence the implementation is a success as the ill patients enhance productivity in the society and their families as well. It is also a great significance to the country as it funds for the patients well being in the budgetary of mental health care and the psychiatric hospital services.
References
Alshowkan, A. (2015). Nurses’ Attitude Toward People with Mental Illness. European Psychiatry, 30, 620. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(15)30493-4
NATALIA, M., Suryani, S., & Rafiyah, I. (2019). Health Professionals’ Attitudes Towards Mental Illness Patients. Journal Of Nursing Care, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.24198/jnc.v2i1.18488
Pearce, M., & Koenig, H. (2013). Cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of depression in Christian patients with medical illness. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 16(7), 730-740. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2012.718752