Facilitating psychiatric nurses' advocacy for mental healthcare users' human rights in a primary healthcare setting: a conceptual framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Even though human rights advocacy is a part of mental health care, psychiatric nurses in South Africa's primary healthcare (PHC) setting face substantial challenges when advocating for the rights of mental health care users (MHCUs). The study aimed to develop a conceptual framework to facilitate psychiatric nurses' advocacy for mental healthcare users' human rights in a PHC setting.

Methods

A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive, and contextual design was used to investigate the psychiatric nurses' experiences advocating for MHCUs' human rights in a PHC setting. Three phases were followed: the empirical phase, the classification of concepts, and a development phase. Following the empirical phase, a conceptual framework was developed to facilitate psychiatric nurs

SUBMITTER: Ntshingila N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11470601 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature