Physical Care Reflective Essay
Critically analyse the physical care, well being and interventions used in a client in your care
Module: MHR4607
Physical Health and Wellbeing
‘Critically analyse the physical care, well being and interventions used in a client in your care’.
This reflective essay focus’s on a 54 year old service user who suffers from schizophrenia. Coinciding with her mental health illness she has a diagnosis’s of diabetes type 2, she is obese, and has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). For the purpose of this reflective essay I shall be focusing on how her diabetes was managed during her time on an inner city psychiatric assessment ward. I will also look in to the correlation between diabetes and schizophrenia.
It is a fact that in today’s …show more content…
Connolly & Kelly (2005) suggested this could be due to a purposeful avoidance of health services by those who are mentally unwell, or that during this time of their mental health crisis, many are suffering the effects of their illness such as positive symptoms, thought disorder, or the flat effects associated with schizophrenia, these experiences could make it harder for them to go to their appointments. Saha, Chant & McGrath (2007) state that the reason as to the exact cause of this gap is not known, however many theories have been suggested as to why it has occurred. Mc Creadie (2003) attributed this gap as lifestyle factors. In a study on people suffering from schizophrenia against those who were mentally well, there was significant findings that the individuals with schizophrenia ate poorer diets, consuming under half of the recommended guide lines of fruit and vegetable consumptions in a week, theey undertook substantially lower exercise than the comparison group and tended to have a higher body mass index. According to Gough & Peveler
Module: MHR4607
Physical Health and Wellbeing
‘Critically analyse the physical care, well being and interventions used in a client in your care’.
This reflective essay focus’s on a 54 year old service user who suffers from schizophrenia. Coinciding with her mental health illness she has a diagnosis’s of diabetes type 2, she is obese, and has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). For the purpose of this reflective essay I shall be focusing on how her diabetes was managed during her time on an inner city psychiatric assessment ward. I will also look in to the correlation between diabetes and schizophrenia.
It is a fact that in today’s …show more content…
Connolly & Kelly (2005) suggested this could be due to a purposeful avoidance of health services by those who are mentally unwell, or that during this time of their mental health crisis, many are suffering the effects of their illness such as positive symptoms, thought disorder, or the flat effects associated with schizophrenia, these experiences could make it harder for them to go to their appointments. Saha, Chant & McGrath (2007) state that the reason as to the exact cause of this gap is not known, however many theories have been suggested as to why it has occurred. Mc Creadie (2003) attributed this gap as lifestyle factors. In a study on people suffering from schizophrenia against those who were mentally well, there was significant findings that the individuals with schizophrenia ate poorer diets, consuming under half of the recommended guide lines of fruit and vegetable consumptions in a week, theey undertook substantially lower exercise than the comparison group and tended to have a higher body mass index. According to Gough & Peveler