Attitudes Towards Patient Gender Among Psychiatric Hospital Staff : Results of a Case Study with Focus Groups  

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Krumm, Silvia ; Kilian, Reinhold ; Becker, Thomas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 6 (Mar. 2006), page 1528-1540.
Topik: attitudes; germany; psychiatric staff; staff attitudes; patient gender; single sex vs mixed sex psychiatric wards; crossed gender

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There is an increasing awareness of gender related issues in psychiatry. However empirical findings on attitudes os psychiatric staff towards patient gender are limtied. Gender related issues are particularly relevant in the debate about mixed versus segregated sex wards, yet while the approproateness of mixed sex wards is questioned in great britain this is not the case in germany. To investigate attitudes of psychiatric staff towards both patient gender and mixed versus segregated sex wards, we conducted a case study using focus groups with members of professional teams. We evaluated the transition process from two single sex wards to two mixed sex wards in a 330 bed psychitatric hospital in a rural area on south germany. Staff described female patients as more externally oriented, motivating of others, demanding, and even sexually aggresive. Male patients on the other hand, were described as more quiet, modest or lazy. Furthermore, participants described the mixing process as a positive development whereas they did not see a need for gender separated wards in order to protect vulnerable female patients. Some gender descriptions by professionals are reversed in comparison with gender stereotypes supposed to be present in wider society. The perception of crossed gender norms may affect staff attitudes towatrds the vulnerability of female patients in psychiatric settings and the provision of single sex wards in in patient psychiatric care. Practical implications are discussed against the background of a high rate of female patients with sexual abuse histories.

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