Causal relationships between background characteristics, service utilization, satisfaction, and service outcomes (school performance): A path analysis

The Service Provider and Medication Usage Grids: A New Method to Measure “Treatment as Usual” (TAU)

“…The Grids provide additional information about medications and services not routinely collected in the charts (e.g., reasons for addition or termination, perceived effectiveness) that can be useful in evaluation of a client's TAU and overall clinical outcomes. Research has identified the importance of these additional service variables, such as client satisfaction and client outcomes, and has pointed out the need for further research on these variables as important outcome variables (Cheon 2009). For example, the Grids were recently used by clinicians in a treatment study of children with mood disorders to determine how a psychoeducational intervention impacted the quality of the children's TAU consequently affecting mood symptom severity (Mendenhall et al 2009).…”