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Citation
Lauder W (1999) A survey of self-neglect in patients living in the community. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 8 (1), pp. 95-102. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2702.1999.00231.x
Abstract
• Self-neglect is a familiar concept to all community nurses. Nevertheless there have been few empirical studies undertaken in this area over the last 30 years. • The study of self-neglect has been hampered by inadequate conceptualization and a lack of theoretical frameworks. • This article reports a study of patients who did and did not self-neglect, drawn from district nursing caseloads. • Patients with self-neglect had lower levels of operable self-care agency than patients in a comparison group. • Only self-neglecting patients had the nursing diagnoses `ineffective management of therapy' and `non-compliance'.
Keywords
orem; self-care; self-care agency; self-neglect; Apathy; Self-management (Psychology); Self Care psychology; Health behavior
Journal
Journal of Clinical Nursing: Volume 8, Issue 1
Status | Published |
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Publication date | 31/01/1999 |
Publication date online | 24/12/2001 |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1889 |
Publisher | Blackwell Publishing |
ISSN | 0962-1067 |