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The last resort? Bed and breakfast accommodation for mentally ill people in a seaside town
- Authors:
- BARNES John, THORNICROFT Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Health Trends, 25(3), 1993, pp.87-90.
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
Reports the findings of a survey in Southend, which compared living conditions and residents in bed and breakfast accommodation with those in sheltered accommodation for mentally ill adults. The results show that the former were living in less attractive and less well maintained surroundings, and were more likely to have been recently discharged from a psychiatric unit and to have less contact with a range of community mental health services, but were, however, closer to local amenities. Argues for local liaison schemes between health workers responsible for the continuing care of mentally ill people and the landlords of bed and breakfast accommodation to improve the quality of life for these residents.
International outcome measures in mental health: quality of life, needs, service satisfaction, costs and impact on carers
- Authors:
- THORNICROFT Graham, et al
- Publisher:
- Gaskell
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 172p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book contains five practical scales for assessing the outcomes of mental healthcare. They are the European versions of: Camberwell Assessment of Need (for unmet and met needs); Client Socio-demographic and Service Receipt Inventory (for service costs); Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire (for impact of care on family members); Lancashire Quality of Life Profile (for quality of life); Verona Service Satisfaction Scale (for service satisfaction). Each scale has been standardised (in Danish, Dutch, English, Italian and Spanish), and has been shown to be reliable and valid in all these European languages.The book contains full details of the development of these scales, manuals for their use, the scales themselves and instructions on how to use the results. These new measures will be invaluable to all those in research, evaluation, audit and management who have an interest in evidence-based policy and practice in mental healthcare.