Abstract
The aim of this review article was to explore and understand the concepts, issues and preventive strategiesof mental health relapse with psychiatric nursing perspectives and also to present a comprehensive conceptof relapse and its prevention in a narrative form based on the evidences from the various sources ofliterature. The review materials were included from the books, journals, news papers, online data base andgrey literature of last three decades to 2018. The significant articles were searched by using key words:“Relapse”, “Mental illness”, “Prevention of Relapse”, “Relapse AND Mental illness”, “Relapse PreventionAND Mental illness” in PubMed, CINHAL, PsychINFO SCOPUS and Google Scholar data bases. Basedon the relevant and significant facts found with respect to the aim of the review, concepts were evolved andevidence based narration was made under each concepts to understand prevention of mental health relapsewith regards to identification of issues and formulating strategies to overcome such issues with psychiatricnursing perspectives. The study concluded that, relapse is a major obstacle for recovery of mental illness,but can be preventable by addressing underlying issues with preventive approaches across various healthcare settings.
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