Abstract
The present study aimed to elucidate the aspects of specific nursing interventions for establishing, maintaining and achieving joint goals with eating disorder patients, in order to suggest effective care. Subjects comprised 11 export nurses working in psychiatric wards. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and analyzed using qualitative induction. Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Review Board of the authors' institution. The following three aspects of nursing intervention were extracted: "forming the basic base for mutual goal by supporting the patient," "advance to form joint goals" and "maintaining joint goals." These findings indicate that "nursing intervention to support fundamental patient independence" and "the multilayered process of forming, maintaining and achieving joint goals" are characteristic of these three aspects of nursing intervention for patients with eating disorders.
