They Don't Give Us the Full Story - PDF
They Don't Give Us the Full Story: Attitudes to Hospitalisation Amongst Yolŋu People of North-East Arnhem Land - A Comparative Study
Published in 1999, this groundbreaking and still relevant community research explores the attitudes of Yolŋu people towards their recent hospitalisation experiences at Gove District Hospital.
The attitudes of Yolŋu persons towards their recent hospitalisation experiences (i.e. 1995-99) at Gove District Hospital (GDH) were obtained through the conduct of community-based interviews and the results compared with attitudes obtained from interviews of current patients.
The study identifies a number of themes arising from the responses of ex-patients, primarily around the issue of communication difficulties experienced and more specifically with their lack of satisfaction with explanations given concerning diagnosis and treatment.
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