KMID : 0607320220310010047
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Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2022 Volume.31 No. 1 p.47 ~ p.57
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The Lived Experience of Mentally Disabled Persons Living in Group Homes
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Choi Go-Ya
Choi Eun-Joung
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the meaning and nature of the experience of mentally disabled persons living in group homes.
Methods: Data were collected through individual in-depth interviews with six mentally disabled persons from April to October in 2017. The data were analyzed using hermeneutic phenomenological methodology based on four fundamental existential concepts: that lived space, lived body, lived time, and lived others.
Results: Ten essential themes emerged: lived space-settle down in a strange environment, wish for my independent space in a daily routine; lived body-make a balance between soul and body, lead normal daily life by myself; lived time-rewrite my life; lived others-unapproachable relationship, meet my advocators.
Conclusion: The meaning of living in group homes as mentally disabled persons was ¡®living as an ordinary person¡¯. This information would be useful in providing interventions to enable such people to return to the community.
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KEYWORD
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Group homes, Mentally disabled persons, Qualitative research
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