Självskadande kvinnors upplevelse av bemötande i vården
The purpose of the study was to describe how women with deliberate self-harm behaviour experience they have been treated when conducting health care. The study has a qualitative and descriptive approach and data was collected with snowball sampling. Data was analysed with content analysis and ended up in three theme ?Feeling of violation of integrity and autonomy?, ?health care staff don´t have the courage to step in and take responsibility? and ? Personal confirmation and validation of feelings?. The results showed that many women with deliberate self-harm behavior feel that they have been badly treated when they conducting health care. Furthermore, the women in this study have experienced that their integrity and autonomy have been violated. In their opinion it was difficult to get adequate treatment. The women also felt that the health care staff had difficulties taking responsibility. On the occasions the women with deliberate self-harm felt that they have been treated satisfactorily, they experienced personal confirmation and a validation of feelings. In other words they felt respectfully treated and in their opinion the health care staff took time to listen. The women in this study consider adequate treatment of proffesionell personell of importance. The conclusion is that many of the women who cut themselves, get unsatisfactorily treated when they conduct health care and that the health care staff need knowledge concerning how to treat women with deliberate self-harm. In addition this study showed that more research is needed regarding how women with deliberate self-harm experience they are treated when conducting health care.