UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Finnmark Hospital Trust, Norway.
Transcult Psychiatry. 2020 Apr;57(2):363-374. doi: 10.1177/1363461520903123. Epub 2020 Feb 6.
This qualitative study explores Sami and non-Sami clinicians' assumptions about Sami culture and their experiences in providing mental health services to Sami patients. The aim is to better understand and improve the ways in which culture is incorporated into mental health services in practice. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 clinicians in mental health outpatient clinics in the northern Sami area in Troms and Finnmark County in Norway. The findings show that clinicians' conceptualizations of culture influence how they take cultural considerations about their Sami patients into account. To better integrate culture into clinical practice, the cultures of both patient and clinician, as well as of mental health care itself, need to be assessed. Finally, the findings indicate a lack of professional team discussions about the role of Sami culture in clinical practice.
本定性研究探讨了萨米族和非萨米族临床医生对萨米文化的假设以及他们为萨米族患者提供精神卫生服务的经验。目的是更好地理解和改进在实践中将文化纳入精神卫生服务的方式。在挪威特罗姆瑟和芬马克县的北部萨米地区的精神卫生门诊诊所，对 20 名临床医生进行了半结构化访谈。研究结果表明，临床医生对文化的概念化影响了他们如何考虑其萨米族患者的文化因素。为了更好地将文化融入临床实践，需要评估患者和临床医生的文化，以及精神卫生保健本身的文化。最后，研究结果表明，专业团队缺乏关于萨米文化在临床实践中作用的讨论。
