Elements | Element divisions | Concrete actions |
Stability of mental and physical states | Management of mental condition | Monitoring of mental condition |
Coping actions for symptoms | ||
Drug compliance | ||
Actions for visiting hospitals | ||
Health management | Monitoring of physical conditions | |
Physical management | ||
Actions for visiting the office in poor mental condition | ||
Stress management | Monitoring of stress status | |
Stress coping | ||
Maintenance of daily life | Diet management | Decision of menu |
Buying cooking ingredients | ||
Cooking | ||
Clearing a table | ||
Using cooking instruments | ||
Buying ready-made meals | ||
Voluntarily eating food | ||
Checking the expiration date | ||
Sleeping management | To maintain satisfying sleeping | |
Rest | Consciousness of fatigue | |
Rest while suffering from fatigue | ||
Bathing, changing clothes and applying cosmetics | Cosmetic behaviors including washing face, fixing hairs, shaving and brushing of teeth | |
Maintaining the body clean (by bathing) | ||
Dressing in accordance with time, place and occasion | ||
Cleaning and laundry | Cleaning the private room | |
Distinguishing between something clean and something not clean | ||
Laundry considering the timing | ||
Management of bedclothes | ||
Decluttering | Putting belongings in order | |
Disposal of unnecessary items | ||
Disposal of garbage | Waste sorting | |
Taking the trash out (at the designated place and date) | ||
Shopping | Shopping things necessary to life | |
Use of public transportation | Using public facilities such as bank, post office, and city hall | |
Using public transportation such as train, bus, and tax | ||
Use of social resources | Obtaining knowledge of accessible social resources | |
Appropriate use of social resources | ||
Time management | Designing a life schedule | |
Life in accordance with schedule | ||
Being punctual | ||
Management of items | Management of valuables (seal, passbook and disability certificate) | |
Financial management | To use money systematically | |
To put money aside | ||
To save money | ||
Security management and risk management | To obey traffic rules | |
Safe use of fire | ||
Use of phone | ||
Anticrime measures (e.g. lock-up) | ||
Ability to accept support | Self-recognition | To clarify what one can do and cannot do |
Actions to request help | To issue SOS signals | |
To take counsel with someone | ||
To accept support | ||
Maintenance and development of human relations | Connectedness to others | To maintain appropriate family relationships |
To maintain appropriate relationships with friends | ||
To maintain appropriate relationships among people with mental disabilities | ||
To maintain appropriate relationships with the opposite sex | ||
To communicate with strangers appropriately | ||
To maintain appropriate relationships with healthcare staff or welfare workers | ||
To maintain appropriate relationships with people related to the workplace | ||
To maintain appropriate relationships with neighborhood residents | ||
To develop human relations | ||
Communication skills | With a smile | |
Able to greet anyone | ||
Able to say thanks | ||
Able to listen to others | ||
Able to become sympathetic to others’ world | ||
Able to express will and feelings | ||
Able to turn down offers | ||
Able to communicate considering others and situations | ||
Empowerment | Self-resources | Self-decision |
Having the ability to solve problems | ||
Appropriate self-assessment | ||
Will | To have a feeling of living in a community | |
To have the will to live | ||
Motivation in life | Whereabouts | Having a place to spend time in character |
Having a comfortable place | ||
Having a favorite place to visit | ||
Goal, dream and hope | Able to have goals | |
Able to have dreams | ||
Able to have hopes | ||
Able to have fun in life | ||
Spending leisure time | Having hobbies or culture lessons | |
Able to spend time in character | ||
Going out | Able to go out voluntarily | |
Obtaining, managing and using income | Obtaining income by working and helping | |
Able to enjoy something at one’s own expense | ||
Able to buy something that one wants with one’s own money |
Citation: Yamashita M (2018) Theory of Self-Care for People with Mental Disability in a Community. J Pract Prof Nurs 2: 003.
Copyright: © 2018 Mayuko Yamashita, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.