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Services to support carers of people with mental health problems: literature review report
- Authors:
- ARKSEY Hilary, et al
- Publisher:
- National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 180p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report provides a scoping review of evaluation studies of interventions and services to support carers of people with mental health problems. It discusses issues relating to the effectiveness and costeffectiveness of interventions and highlights where there are gaps in knowledge. The 204 studies included in the review were diverse and complex. Interventions were classified into 11 different groups: educational interventions of different types (36 per cent); breaks from caring (18 per cent); family interventions (10 per cent); mutual support and social activity groups (9 per cent); telephone and computer-based services (8 per cent); multidimensional approaches to caring interventions (7 per cent); counselling (4 per cent); domiciliary care services (2 per cent); physic al environment (1 per cent); services to support Carers of People with mental health problems; supporting carers through memory clinics (1 per cent); and miscellaneous (4 per cent).