The purpose of this study was to identify teaching methods to reinforce undergraduate students' empathy in the clinical practice of psychiatric nursing.

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten undergraduate nursing teachers. The data were analyzed using a grounded theory approach.

The core category was found to be “Provision of safety and security against threats to students”. Other categories were “Helping the adjustment of situations between the student and the patient by taking into account the student's feelings,” “Teaching with a focus on the symptoms of schizophrenia” and “Lowering the goals to be reached by assessing the students' abilities.”

The purpose of “Provision of safety and security against threats to students” was to enable the students' to feel safe psychologically, and for students to think about the patients without being influenced by fear.

This study aims to identify the ways in which visiting nurses overcome challenges that they face in caring for individuals with mental disabilities in the community. A semi-structured interview was conducted with 11 nurses who provide care to persons with mental disabilities at a home-visit nursing care station, and the results were analyzed using a qualitative and inductive method.

The results indicated that nurses had overcome the challenges that they encountered through actions such as “communicating verbally,” “understanding patients from a multidimensional perspective,” “maintaining an appropriate distance from patients,” “working in cooperation with other staff members,” “cooperating with other concerned parties, in addition to medical staff,” “seeking advice from specialists,” and “facing the challenges not only for their patients, but for their own sake.”

In order to help visiting nurses solve the difficulties that they face in caring for persons with mental disabilities, measures need to be taken to prevent one nurse or nursing care station from keeping the problems to themselves. This can be achieved by providing training for acquisition of the knowledge and skills required in caring for persons with mental disabilities, and creating an environment where support from partners is easily accessible.

This study determined the factors preventing subsequent suicide contemplation in people suffering from mood disorders a year after a failed suicide attempt. One-on-one semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 participants. Interview data were analyzed qualitatively.

The results revealed 18 factors that were classified into four major categories: support after suicide attempt, acquisition of new daily habits, new connections with society, and reluctance to re-contemplate suicide.

All participants had received professional support immediately after their respective suicide attempts, which had given them guidance as to how to achieve peace of mind, the hobbies and roles they could take up and how to live life without a sense of burden. While suicidal ideation had not completely disappeared, with the help of the people around them, participants learned to suppress these feelings by living in the moment and focusing on forming new connections with society. These results suggested that there is a need to provide continuous support focusing on living while accepting chances of relapse.