Asylum blues: Staff attitudes towards psychiatric nursing in Sarawak, East Malaysia
Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Publication Date
12-1-2003
Abstract
This paper draws upon findings from an ethnographic study of psychiatric service users in a psychiatric institution in Sarawak, East Malaysia. Findings focus primarily on the accounts of nursing staff in relation to attitudes towards psychiatric work and patients. These indicate that despite a rhetoric of decentralized services, a custodial 'asylum' model continues to influence the care of patients at many levels. Negative professional attitudes towards patients lead to issues of both moral and physical containment. However, an associated attitude of stigma and prejudice towards mental illness impacts upon how attractive a career in psychiatric nursing is perceived to be by respondents, subject to gender differentials.
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ISSN
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Volume
10
Issue
6
First Page
713
Last Page
721
Disciplines
Law | Medicine and Health Sciences
Keywords
Asylum, Containment, Psychiatric patients, Psychiatric staff, Sarawak
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Recommended Citation
Crabtree, S. Ashencaen, "Asylum blues: Staff attitudes towards psychiatric nursing in Sarawak, East Malaysia" (2003). All Works. 601.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/601
Indexed in Scopus
yes
Open Access
no