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Mental health crisis at home: service user perspectives on what helps and what hinders

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Abstract

This paper presents data which emerged during the process of a participatory research study to identify the perspectives of previous users of a home treatment service. Feedback was sought in order to establish the criteria for the development of a service evaluation questionnaire. Seven themes emerged from the data which were then used as a framework for the evaluation questionnaire. These themes have also been used within this paper to present what our participants told us was important to them when they received a service at home at a time of mental health crisis. Although what is described here is the experience of one group of service users in the North of England, we hope that the views of these participants will create a resonance with providers of other home treatment services and expand the knowledge about which aspects of care at home during mental health crisis are viewed as helpful and those aspects which are not.

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Author(s): Hopkins C, Niemiec S

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Year: 2007

Volume: 14

Issue: 3

Pages: 310-318

ISSN (print): 1351-0126

ISSN (electronic): 1365-2850

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2007.01083.x

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2007.01083.x

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