Abstract
Objectives The purpose of this study is to explore in-depth the rehabilitation experiences of female with mental illness admitted to community mental health transition facility and to understand the phenomena. Based on the rehabilitation experiences of female with mental illness, mental rehabilitation education and self-reliance training programs for female with mental illness are developed, and they are used as basic data for the development of ed ucational materials for workers to understand residents. Methods For female with mental illness discharged from community mental health transition facility, data were collected through in-depth interviews with 11 people from November 4, 2022 to February 24, 2023, using the snowball sampling method until data saturation. Through in-depth interviews one-on-one with female with men tal illness for 60-120 minutes, the meaning of the experience of psychiatric rehabilitation through the admission experience was analyzed in the stages of theme collection and categorization according to the Colaizzi phenom enological method. Results The rehabilitation experience of female with mental ill in community mental health transition facility was derived into 5 categories and 11 thematic collections. The five categories were ‘maintaining regular daily life’, ‘at tempting relationships with people’, ‘recognizing the importance of health management’, ‘the boundary between restrictions and choices’, and ‘the first step in independent life’. Participants experienced rehabilitation in com munity transition facility as an intermediate stage between psychiatric ward centered on safety and treatment and group homes for people with mental ill that emphasizes the right to self-determination. Conclusions Based on the rehabilitation experience of female with mental illness in community mental health transition facility, it can be used as basic data for developing rehabilitation programs and educational materials for residents of community mental health transition facility and educational materials for workers.
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