Analysis of Nursing Diagnoses in Schizophrenic Patients

The nursing diagnoses of 163 schizophrenic patients in case reports were analyzed. The 489 nursing diagnoses were again classified by the framework of classification of nursing diagnoses by human responses patterns. Through this a comprehensive analysis, 'the social interaction, impaired' was described the highest frequency nursing problems of schizophrenic patients in students' case reports. Also 'self-esteem disturbance', 'violence(actual)/risk for, directed at self/others', 'noncompliance' and 'coping, individual, ineffective' were used to explain patients' problems. But 'thought process, altered' and 'sensory/perceptual alteration' were used in low frequency. From this result, it could be assumed that the selection of specific related factors in 'thought process, altered' and 'sensory/perceptual alteration' were very difficult for nursing students. If the clarification of nursing diagnoses in Korean is accomplished, it will be more veracious to describe the nursing problems of schizophrenic patients.ope