Svedberg G
The Karolinska Institute and Center for Women's Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Int Hist Nurs J. 2000 Spring;5(2):28-35.
Prolonged baths were used within psychiatric care in Sweden during the first half of the twentieth century. Eight reports from nursing staff about experiences of prolonged baths were analysed. The aim is to gain a better understanding of what it could have meant for caregivers to give prolonged baths. The nursing staff described their work with the baths as an extremely tiresome and trying duty that was delegated to inexperienced personnel. They regarded the patients as impossible to communicate with verbally. Prolonged baths were said to have been used on 'the most severely disturbed', violent, or untidy patients. The nurses describe the patients' discomfort and protests, but also point out that the baths had the intended effect of calming down disturbed patients. Prolonged baths also functioned as a restraint.
在20世纪上半叶，瑞典的精神病护理中使用了长时间沐浴疗法。分析了八份护理人员关于长时间沐浴体验的报告。目的是更好地了解进行长时间沐浴对护理人员来说意味着什么。护理人员将他们进行沐浴的工作描述为一项极其繁重且令人疲惫的任务，这项任务被分配给了缺乏经验的人员。他们认为患者无法进行言语交流。据说长时间沐浴疗法被用于“病情最严重”、暴力或邋遢的患者身上。护士们描述了患者的不适和抗议，但也指出沐浴疗法达到了让烦躁不安的患者平静下来的预期效果。长时间沐浴疗法还起到了约束作用。
