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Life saver or memory eraser?
- Authors:
- FLEISCHMANN Pete, ROSE Diana, WYKES Til
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 122, July 2003, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Reports on a study carried out by the Service User Research Enterprise (SURE) to explore users' perspectives on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The review looked at 35 published research studies looking at user views and also collected 139 testomonies from users from internet sites, print media, video archives using advice from a reference group. Long term memory loss became one of the dominant themes of the review.
Barriers and facilitators of disclosures of domestic violence by mental health service users: qualitative study
- Authors:
- ROSE Diana, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 198(3), March 2011, pp.189-194.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Mental health service users experience higher rates of domestic violence then the general population but this often goes undetected. This study explored the facilitators and barriers to disclosure of domestic violence from both a service user and professional perspective. Eighteen community mental health service users (16 females, mean age 41 years) and 20 mental health professionals were recruited from a socioeconomically deprived south London borough. Thematic analysis was used to determine dominant and subthemes from individual semi-structured interviews. Service users described barriers to disclosure of domestic violence to professionals including: fear of the consequences (including Social Services involvement and child protection proceedings); fear of not being believed; fear of further violence; the hidden nature of the violence; actions of the perpetrator; and feelings of shame. The main themes for professionals concerned role boundaries, competency and confidence. Enquiry and disclosure were facilitated by a supportive and trusting relationship between the individual and professional. However, both groups suggested that the medical diagnostic and treatment model, with its emphasis on symptoms, could act as a barrier to enquiry and disclosure. The authors conclude that mental health services are not currently conducive to the disclosure of domestic violence. Professional training in how to address domestic violence is recommended in order to increase confidence and expertise.
What are mental health service users' priorities for research in the UK?
- Authors:
- ROSE Diana, FLEISCHMAN Pete, WYKES Til
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 17(5), October 2008, pp.520-530.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This study investigates service users' priorities for mental health research and compares them with established priorities. Groups of service users were convened from the London boroughs of Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth and Croydon. The study was informed by participatory research methodology. User accounts of their research priorities were analysed using a modified grounded theory approach. Service users in this study identified different research priorities from those of professionals. They wished to design and conduct more research themselves, and were more interested in research that was social and psychological rather than biomedical. They also wished to see investigations of alternative treatments to psychiatric medication. The research priorities of service users need further investigation, and effective structures should be developed and consolidated to ensure that these priorities become incorporated into the mental health research agenda.
In our experience: user-focused monitoring of mental health services in Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority
- Authors:
- ROSE Diana, et al
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 35p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of a joint project run by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority which aimed to give people with severe mental health problems a voice in the services they receive.
Partnership, co-ordination of care and the place of user involvement
- Author:
- ROSE Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 12(1), February 2003, pp.59-70.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The context for this paper is current UK policy emphasis on both `partnership' and `user involvement' and discussion on the system of Care Programme Approach (CPA). The aim was to investigate whether increasing co-ordination of care at a structural level is associated with greater user involvement. Social survey techniques were adapted in order to be user-focused and the work was prepared and carried out by service users. Service users tend to be unaware of the major way in which their care is co-ordinated but even less involved in it. On the rare occasions that service users are involved in their care and other elements of empowerment are in place, they are more satisfied overall with the services they receive. Increasing co-ordination of care at a managerial level does not necessarily lead to greater awareness or involvement amongst individual users of CPA. This may be linked to the way service users are perceived by their mental health workers and it is argued that this should change if users are to be full `partners'.
Sure thing
- Author:
- ROSE Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 116, July 2002, p.22.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Reports on the Service User Research Enterprise (SURE) at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. SURE has been set up to promote collaborative research between mental health service users and clinical academics.
Users' voices: the perspectives of mental health service users on community and hospital care
- Author:
- ROSE Diana
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 120p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of a systematic study designed to find out what mental health service users think about living in the community, of their services and of the experiences of being in hospital. The questions were developed and asked by user interviewers. Aimed at mental health service planners and managers, policy makers, service users, practitioners and researchers.
Lines of enquiry
- Authors:
- ROSE Diana, FORD Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.2.99, 1999, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A study has shown that people with severe mental health problems are capable of being involved in planning their care. The authors suggest new ways of finding out what service users think.
All in the mind
- Author:
- ROSE Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.4.96, 1996, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Community care was fully implemented three years ago this week, but a report reveals that people with mental health problems living in the community still suffer abuse, prejudice and harassment.
‘Widening cross-disciplinary research for mental health’: what is missing from the Research Councils UK mental health agenda?
- Authors:
- ROSE Diana, CARR Sarah, BERESFORD Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 33(3), 2018, pp.476-481.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This current issues article is a brief critical examination of the recent Research Councils UK agenda and call for cross-disciplinary research in mental health. The authors' argument is based on the fact that patient and public involvement (PPI) is the only involvement and influencing strategy for service users and survivors in the agenda. Service user and survivor research as a discipline in itself remains unacknowledged. It is concluded that service user and survivor research is distinct and is different to PPI, and should be recognised in any mental health research agenda. (Edited publisher abstract)