“Service user involvement in practice”: The evaluation of an intervention program for service providers and inpatients in Norwegian Community Mental Health Centers

Implementing civic engagement within mental health services in South East Asia: a systematic review and realist synthesis of current evidence

“…The utilization of civic engagement in western contexts is not without challenges and similar barriers were identified in studies included in the current review [6,20,78]. Implementation challenges relating to empowerment practice in mental health in particular, and the need to develop infrastructure to support such approaches at a local and national level, was identified as a key challenge for health services in SEA [62].…”

Does implementing a development plan for user participation in a mental hospital change patients' experience? A non‐randomized controlled study

“…[8][9][10] Similar results were also found in another Norwegian study by Storm et al, where there was no improvement on the patient-reported outcomes on satisfaction with treatment and care from several user participation initiatives. 21 Qualitative studies on initiatives at the organizational level have shown that the intended effect from user participation initiatives sometimes fails to appear and that some aspects are hard to impact. 1,40,41 Although it was found to be a good and friendly collaboration between users and health professionals, the treatment ideology, the status of users and other important factors in health services were hard to influence.…”

“…To analyse changes in PoC questions (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16) and added questions (17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26), binary logistic regression was used. Results from the bivariate analyses of the demographic variables were added to the regression model.…”

“…22,40 In Storm and colleagues' study, the professionals reported a stronger focus on user participation, more patient collaboration and more involvement of family members. 21 Initiatives perceived as appropriate by the professionals might therefore not be adequate to have impact on the patients' experience of user participation in their treatment.…”

“…Some organizations have implemented smaller user participation initiatives in some areas of the organizations, 8,9 but few have aimed at implementing more complex and comprehensive plans to enhance user participation. 21,22 One of the main aims for enhancing user participation in health care is improved quality of care and better health outcomes for service users. 23 Thus, the implementation of user participation initiatives in health service organizations should first and foremost be beneficial for the service users.…”