Carers of mentally ill people in Queensland: Their perceived relationships with professional mental health service providers: Report on a survey

Hodgson, Orme; King, Robert; Leggatt, Margaret

doi:10.5172/jamh.1.3.220

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“…It is evident, overall, that even though World Health Organization and government policies promote participation, some mental health professionals have yet to develop appropriate attitudes and skills that support the genuine involvement of consumers in matters affecting clinical practice (Hodgson et al . 2002).…”

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Mental health professionals' attitudes towards consumer participation in inpatient units

McCann¹,

Baird

Clark

et al. 2008

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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Consumer participation has been a major focus in mental health services in recent years, but the attitudes of mental health professionals towards this initiative remain variable. The purpose of this study was to describe mental health professionals' attitudes towards mental health consumer participation in inpatient psychiatric units. The Consumer Participation and Consultant Questionnaire was used with a non-probability sample of 47 mental health professionals from two adult inpatient psychiatric units situated in a large Australian public general hospital. Ethics approval was obtained from a university and a hospital ethics committee. Data were analysed using SPSS, Version 12. Overall, respondents had favourable attitudes towards consumer participation in management, care and treatment, and mental health planning. They were less supportive about matters that directly or indirectly related to their spheres of responsibility. The type of unit that the respondents worked in was not a factor in their beliefs about consumer participation. Recommendations are made about the development of guidelines for consumer participation in inpatient units, the educational preparation of mental health clinicians, and the need for mental health professionals to reflect on, and discuss their own beliefs and practices about, consumer participation.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Mental health professionals' attitudes towards consumer participation in inpatient units

McCann¹,

Baird

Clark

et al. 2008

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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“…Mental health services have been required to involve consumers and carers in the planning, delivery and evaluation of mental health services for over a decade (Commonwealth of Australia 1997). Services have been challenged to find ways to facilitate meaningful participation with varying degrees of success but surveys continue to reveal that families, in particular, experience marginalization or exclusion from involvement (Mental Health Council of Australia and Carers Association of Australia 2000, Hodgson et al. 2002, Lammers & Happell 2004a).…”

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Family and carer participation in mental health care: perspectives of consumers and carers in hospital and home care settings

Lakeman

2008

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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It is widely accepted that family and carer participation in adult mental health care is desirable. However, rarely is service development informed by representative opinions of both carers and service users. This study took place in the context of a larger project to introduce and evaluate practice standards relating to family participation. The aim of this paper is to explore the perceptions of service users and carers to carer participation in adult mental health services. One hundred and twenty-nine service users and 86 family members recruited via hospital and community settings completed a survey which addressed obstacles to family participation, perceived benefits of participation and areas for improvement. Many service users and family were entirely satisfied with existing levels of family participation. Different needs for information, support and the nature of participation in mental health care are highlighted in acute hospital and community settings. Across settings, the provision of support and accessing services were identified as the most useful aspects of family participation. Meaningful carer and family participation in mental health care should proceed from respectful connection with carers and be informed by need which will vary depending on setting and circumstances.

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“…In practice, however, service user involvement in care and planning is often tokenistic and lacking in support (Hodgson et al . 2002, McCann et al .…”

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Description and evaluation of a serious game intervention to engage low secure service users with serious mental illness in the design and refurbishment of their environment

Fitzgerald

Kirk

Bristow

2010

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

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Service user involvement in all levels of healthcare provision is the expectation of UK government policy. Involvement should not only include participation in the planning and delivery of health care but also the exercise of choice and opinions about that care. In practice, however, service user engagement is most often tokenistic, involving post hoc consultation over plans already committed to by services. This paper explores an Occupational Therapy-led initiative to use the Serious Game format to engage low secure service users with serious mental illness in the design, layout and refurbishment of their unit. Among other things how medication was to be dispensed on the new unit was explored by this game and led to significant replanning in response to service user involvement. The game format was found to be a useful tool in facilitating communication between professionals and a traditionally marginalized and powerless client group. It enabled service users to have a voice, it provided a format for that voice to be heard and made possible service-led change in the planning process.

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Carers of mentally ill people in Queensland: Their perceived relationships with professional mental health service providers: Report on a survey

Cited by 16 publications

References 9 publications

Mental health professionals' attitudes towards consumer participation in inpatient units

Mental health professionals' attitudes towards consumer participation in inpatient units

Family and carer participation in mental health care: perspectives of consumers and carers in hospital and home care settings

Description and evaluation of a serious game intervention to engage low secure service users with serious mental illness in the design and refurbishment of their environment

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