NURSING CARE OF THE PATIENT WITH MENTAL DISORDER IN HOME CARE: NARRATIVE REVIEW

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The comprehensive management of the patient with mental disorder from nursing, includes approaches that are carried out in home care, thus allowing the development of assessment, monitoring and care activities for the patient and his family. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A strategic search was carried out in Medline, Epistemonikos, JBI Database, Virtual Health Library, using the terms "mental disease", "mental illness", “homecare”, “nursing”. The extraction and analysis of the data occurred according to the approaches of the JBI. RESULTS: 25 articles were identified that met the inclusion criteria and were classified into 4 themes: 1. The experience of care at home for patients with mental disorder. 2. Medication adherence of patients with mental disorder receiving treatment at home. 3. The elderly with mental disorder and 4. Technological strategies to provide home care to patients with mental disorder. CONCLUSIONS: In order to comprehensively address the care of patients with mental disorder at home, care interventions supported by evidence should be included, including instruction for the family caregiver, so the role of nursing is central, taking into account the growing demand for interventions evidence-based psychiatry home care, taking into account the impact of mental disease, as well as the social and economic challenges that mental disease entails for the patient and their family.