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Supporting people's mental health and well-being: action points for people who use services and for people who provide services
- Author:
- Connor Anne
- Publisher:
- Outside the Box Development Support
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Action points from a research project, funded by the Scottish Executive National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Well-being and run by a partnership between the Dumbarton and District Mental Health Forum and Outside the Box Development Support from summer 2005 to early 2006, are presented. The researchers wanted to find out what helped people keep well, and they also looked at what health and social care services and ordinary community resources can do to help people be well and support people in their recovery from a mental health problem.
Meeting mental health needs: client satisfaction: a user-led approach
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Prison Service Journal, 155, September 2004, pp.19-20.
- Publisher:
- Her Majesty's Prison Service of England and Wales
There has been growing use of client surveys across both health and social care over the past 20 years. While standard user satisfaction surveys undoubtedly provide an opportunity for users' views to be heard, the degree to which they can be considered client-led is questionable. Revolving Doors Agency trained service users to interview others. Findings included: 70% were satisfied, 25% moderately satisfied, and attitudes are positive, but 45% made suggestions for improvement. Detailed results are given together with what was done and why, recommendations, and what will change as a result.
A life in the day of a conference or two lives in three days of a conference: barriers to participation
- Authors:
- CARMICHAEL Eden, O'FLYNN David
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 3(1), February 1999, pp.18-22.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
A user of mental health services and a psychiatrist discuss what they learned about the barriers professionals erect to 'user participation' from the experience of attending an international conference together.
Listen to me, I'm talking: involvement and recovery
- Authors:
- WALSH Fran, TICKLE Anna
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review Journal, 22(2), 2017, pp.111-123.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how those engaged in service user involvement (SUI) initiatives perceive involvement and recovery; whether involvement is related to their recovery process and, if so, how. Design/methodology/approach: An exploratory qualitative method, social constructionist grounded theory, was adopted throughout the research process. Nine semi-structured interviews were undertaken with participants who self-defined as having current or previous mental health problems and who were engaged in SUI initiatives. Findings: Most participants identified explicit links between their own experiences of SUI and recovery. These links represented a connection between the characteristics they perceived to be inherent to involvement and their personal definitions of recovery. In contrast, experiences of consultation and involvement as patient service users was limited and identified as an area for improvement. The core of the tentative grounded theory constructed suggests that individuals found in involvement elements which were concordant with and supported their own definitions of recovery and which were not apparent in their experiences as patients. Research limitations/implications: The small sample and narrow constituency of participants limit the nature of the claims made by the study. Practical implications: This study highlights the value of involvement in promoting recovery and indicates the merit of promoting meaningful involvement across the spectrum of the service user experience. (Edited publisher abstract)
Those more easiest who have learn'd to dance
- Authors:
- WRIGHT Sarah, LEDGER Karen
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 7(3), August 2003, pp.15-20.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The first author introduces the Strategies for Living project which was established as a project within the Mental Health Foundation. Strategies for Living was a user-led research project which aimed to design a research process which would interview current and ex-mental health service users to talk to them about their strategies for living and coping with mental distress. The project also supported six service user research projects. The second author goes on to describe her experiences of working as a research within the programme is a 5 Rhythms Dance project.
Mental health users' experiences of being interviewed by another user in a research project. A qualitative study
- Authors:
- BENGTSSON-TOPS A., SVENSSON B.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 19(3), June 2010, pp.234-242.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Using a sample of 17 mental health users with previous experience of being interviewed in a research project by another user, interviews were conducted to thematically identify users’ perception of participating in the study. Analysis after content analysis revealed that being interviewed by another user was a special experience including both negative and positive aspects. While it generally happened in an atmosphere of comradeship, being interviewed by another user could generate feelings of insecurity. This result highlights the requirements from the informants how to perform user-involved research in the future. When planning for user-involved research education, the authors concluded that it is necessary to consider training aspects and issues related to secure ethical principles concerning the informants.
Experiences of the early implementation of the Mental health (care and treatment) (Scotland) act, 2003: a cohort study
- Authors:
- RIDLEY Julie, et al
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This evaluative research study was commissioned to explore the implementation of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (MHCT Act). A team of independent researchers including 8 mental health service users undertook the study, which lasted 2 years from September 2006. Using qualitative methods, the experiences and viewpoints of those subjected to compulsory care and treatment, of informal carers and families, and of a range of health and social care professionals and advocacy workers were explored in-depth. The findings should be read within the context of the research study undertaken, and care taken in generalising to different populations and areas. Main findings are presented.
Mental health recovery
- Author:
- PETCH Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.2.08, 2008, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author summarises findings of research into the recovery of people with mental health problems conducted by the Scottish Recovery Network. Sixty-four people completed structural questionnaire and then took part in a semi-structured narrative interview exploring their recovery journey. These personal narratives then helped clarify understanding of the individuals journey after a mental health issue.
Acute solutions and beyond: lessons on service users involvement
- Author:
- LEA Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health Workforce Development, 1(2), 2006, pp.34-37.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This article describes how service user involvement at all levels can offer a different route for the provision of good quality care for people experiencing mental distress. Taking examples of service users involvement in the acute solutions project, from the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, the paper demonstrates how effective involvement can bring about measurable change in service provision and patient satisfaction. Examining the benefits, barriers to, and practicalities of service users involvement, it is argued that placing involvement at the centre offers solutions to the persistent problems found in mental health services. Workers who value and facilitate effective service user involvement enable social inclusion, change service users' status and enrich their own lives and practice.
Using an action research approach to involving service users in the assessment of professional competence
- Author:
- BAILEY Di
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 8(2), June 2005, pp.165-179.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper reports on a piece of action research that has involved people who use mental health services in systematically providing feedback from a user perspective on participants' assessed work completed for one module of a masters' training programme in mental health. In an attempt to improve professional practice and include people who were accessing mental health services in so doing, it outlines how users were trained to provide feedback and the training methods employed. The findings summarise the kind of issues users raised in their feedback to participants about the evidence professionals provided to demonstrate their learning from the training programme. A focus group interview with professionals provides a contrasting insight into the participants' experience of having their work commented upon from a user perspective. The paper draws on the experience of a five-year external evaluation of an interdisciplinary programme in community mental health at Birmingham University in the UK which has highlighted the involvement of people who use mental health services as a particular innovation in the design, delivery and evaluation of the curriculum.