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The "unknown soldier" : exploring the lived experiences of mental health care users during and after a public sector workers' strike
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/30165 The "unknown soldier" : exploring the lived experiences of mental health care users during and after a public sector workers' strike Eskell-Blokland, Linda winston.schoeman@gmail.com Schoeman, Winston Rehospitalisation Strike Lived experiences Deterioration in functioning Health care sector Ipa Public servants' strike Specialized psychiatric facility Interpretive phenomenological analysis Strike action Psychiatric patients UCTD Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2013. This research study explored the effects of a public servants‟ strike on psychiatric patients. This is achieved through investigating the subjective lived experiences of events prior to, during and ensuing a public servants' strike. In addition, strike action within the health care sector as a worldwide phenomenon is discussed. This provides a conceptual understanding of strike action within the health care sector, as well as critical issues raised around the use of strikes as a medium of communication. During the public servants' strike of August 2010, 446 patients were discharged from a specialized psychiatric facility in the greater Gauteng region. The sample for this research was taken from this population and comprises of three (n=3) psychiatric patients, two Afrikaans speaking males and one Sotho speaking male. At the time of the interview, all three participants had been hospitalized and received further psychiatric treatment. The researcher made use of Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) as the method to gather and interpret the raw data. The data is discussed within three subordinate themes, namely the subjective experiences prior to, during and ensuing the strike. In addition global themes throughout the patient‟s subjective lived experiences are discussed without sequential significance. The results from this study support current literature that strikes have a direct impact on the treatment of psychiatric patients. In addition the subjective accounts of the patients did not indicate any significant deterioration in functioning during the strike. However in subsequent months following their discharge, all of the participants experienced some form of conflict which contributed to their rehospitalisation. Copyright Psychology unrestricted 2013-09-07T18:10:05Z 2013-01-11 2013-09-07T18:10:05Z 2012-09-06 2013-01-11 2012-12-06 Dissertation Schoeman, W 2012, The "unknown soldier" : exploring the lived experiences of mental health care users during and after a public sector workers' strike, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30165 > F12/9/325/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30165 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-12062012-130843/ © 2012, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Rehospitalisation Strike Lived experiences Deterioration in functioning Health care sector Ipa Public servants' strike Specialized psychiatric facility Interpretive phenomenological analysis Strike action Psychiatric patients UCTD The "unknown soldier" : exploring the lived experiences of mental health care users during and after a public sector workers' strike |
| title | The "unknown soldier" : exploring the lived experiences of mental health care users during and after a public sector workers' strike |
| title_full | The "unknown soldier" : exploring the lived experiences of mental health care users during and after a public sector workers' strike |
| title_fullStr | The "unknown soldier" : exploring the lived experiences of mental health care users during and after a public sector workers' strike |
| title_full_unstemmed | The "unknown soldier" : exploring the lived experiences of mental health care users during and after a public sector workers' strike |
| title_short | The "unknown soldier" : exploring the lived experiences of mental health care users during and after a public sector workers' strike |
| title_sort | unknown soldier exploring the lived experiences of mental health care users during and after a public sector workers strike |
| topic | Rehospitalisation Strike Lived experiences Deterioration in functioning Health care sector Ipa Public servants' strike Specialized psychiatric facility Interpretive phenomenological analysis Strike action Psychiatric patients UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30165 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-12062012-130843/ |