Validation of addictions nursing diagnoses in a sample of alcohol abstainers 1 year posttreatment

The Nursing Diagnosis Disturbed Thought Processes: An Integrative Review

“…The category specific patient population: psychiatric patients includes six studies developed in psychiatric inpatient care facilities (Abderhalden et al., ; Escalada‐Hernández & Marín‐Fernández, ; Sales Orts, ; Stefan et al., ; Ugalde Apalategui & Lluch Canut, ) and two in community psychiatric care services (Boomsma, Dingemans, & Dassen, ; Lluch Canut et al., ). Additionally, another study on symptom monitoring after alcohol dependence show data about the frequency of DTPs (Murphy, ). As it can be observed in Table , almost all studies concluded that the diagnosis DTPs was among the five most common diagnoses, with a frequency between 40 and 50% in the majority of them.…”