A client with paranoid schizophrenia refuses food. He states the voices are telling him the food is contaminated and will change him from a male to a female. A therapeutic response for the nurse would be
A. "You are safe here in the hospital, nothing bad will happen to you."
B. "The voices are wrong about the hospital food. It is not contaminated."
C. "I understand that the voices are very real to you, but I do not hear them."
D. "Other people are eating the food and nothing is happening to them."
Answer: C. "I understand that the voices are very real to you, but I do not hear them."
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