A patient visiting from Puerto Rico has become psychotic while staying with family here in the United States. When conducting the mental status examination, the nurse remembers that:
a. sociocultural factors may greatly affect the examination.
b. liking the patient as a person is important to the outcome.
c. an interpreter may help facilitate the verbal portion of the examination.
d. biological expressions of psychiatric illness are not relevant to someone from another culture.
A
Dress, eye contact, personal hygiene, speech and use of language, personal space, and body language are a few aspects of the mental status examination that vary with culture and social status.
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