Indicators of quality of in-patient psychiatric treatment: the patients' view

Abstract

A well differentiated assessment of importance and satisfaction has implications for the evaluation of the quality of psychiatric care, for specific methods of treatment, and for the improvement of in-patient psychiatric care.

Patient Opinions on the Helpfulness of External Rehabilitative Activities in Residential Psychiatric Care: A Pilot Study

“…This result is consistent with those that emerged in other studies, reporting that free walking, free passes or trips, as forms of freedom, are considered very helpful in psychiatric care whereas restrictions and isolation are considered less helpful [8][9][10][11]. Moreover, the value accorded to external rehabilitative activities confirmed the importance of a community psychiatric care with few restrictions and much social interaction with the outside world [11,13].…”

“…In light of the importance of the patients' involvement in the evaluation of treatment and outcome [7], an interesting area of research explored patients' views about the benefits of their psychiatric treatment [8][9][10]. In connection with this, a previous study carried out in our psychiatric rehabilitation residential unit examined patient opinions on the helpfulness of several planned treatment programs [11].…”

Do depressed patients on adjunctive atypical antipsychotics demonstrate a better quality of life compared to those on antidepressants only? A comparative cross-sectional study of a nationally representative sample of the US population

“…50 The literature supports a positive correlation between psychiatric patients' satisfaction with their health care and their HRQoL. 71 This positive association between patients' satisfaction with their health care quality and their HRQoL was also noticed in our study after controlling for the above covariates, however this association was not significant (P O 0.05).…”

The Quality in Psychiatric Care-Forensic In-Patient Staff (QPC-FIPS) instrument: Psychometric properties and staff views of the quality of forensic psychiatric services in Sweden

“…A measuring instrument should be designed for the specific services and settings in which quality of care is to be evaluated [10], as quality of care or satisfaction is considered to be context specific [17,18]. The instrument Quality in Psychiatric Care (QPC) is based on a definition of quality of care from the patients' perspective in psychiatric care [19].…”