Care Culture as a Meaning-Making Process

A Study of a Mistreatment Investigation

Bibliographic Data

ID4717410
AuthorsPatrik Rytterström (0000-0002-2340-1451, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden), Mitra Unosson (0000-0002-8100-266X, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden), Maria Arman (0000-0003-1683-6972, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
Year2013
Volume23
Issue9
Pages1179-1187
Publication date2013-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732312470760
PMID23264536
OpenAlexW2144405706
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited33

Culture might offer significant insights into the circumstances under which mistreatment occurs. Our aim with this study was to understand and explore institutional mistreatment from a care culture perspective. We used a case study with a triangulating methodology. It involved 12 individual interviews, one focus group interview with four people, a 2-day field study, and a document study. The case was a mistreatment situation that had occurred in municipal care, in which residents had been locked in their rooms at night. Two different care cultures were identified that could give a richer contextual understanding of the motives behind the institutional mistreatment. The service culture was need-oriented and emphasized freedom in care provision. The motherhood culture was characterized by protection and safeguarding of the vulnerable residents. Both cultures showed traces of caring values, but when important caring values were absent, this created a seedbed for mistreatment

Focus group · Organizational culture · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Safeguarding · Social science · Sociology · Elder Abuse and Neglect · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Workplace Violence and Bullying

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