Trial reportBMC health services research2014
How do patients with severe mental diagnosis cope in everyday life - a qualitative study comparing patients' experiences of self-referral inpatient treatment with treatment as usual?
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Patient Experiences of Patient-Initiated Brief Admission in Psychiatric Care: A Systematic Review.International journal of mental health nursing · 2025Pooled it
- Self-referral to inpatient treatment program in a community mental health Centre in Central Norway: investigating the implementation, professionals' experiences and costs.BMC health services research · 2021Trial
- Bridging the Gap: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Impact of the Involvement of Researchers With Lived Experience on a Multisite Randomised Control Trial in the National Probation Service in England and Wales.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Brief admission (BA) for patients with emotional instability and self-harm: nurses' perspectives - person-centred care in clinical practice.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2019Article
- 'Being normal' and self-identity: the experience of volunteering in individuals with severe mental disorders-a qualitative study.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Like a hotel, but boring: users' experience with short-time community-based residential aftercare.BMC health services research · 2017Article
- Self-admission to inpatient treatment in psychiatry: lessons on implementation.BMC psychiatry · 2017Article
- Re-establishing and preserving hope of recovery through user participation in patients with a severe mental disorder: the self-referral-to-inpatient-treatment project.Nursing open · 2016Article
- Short time effect of a self-referral to inpatient treatment for patients with severe mental disorders: a randomized controlled trial.BMC health services research · 2016Article
- More than just a bed: mental health service users' experiences of self-referral admission.International journal of mental health systems · 2016Article
- How Do Patients with Chronic Neck Pain Experience the Effects of Qigong and Exercise Therapy? A Qualitative Interview Study.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2016Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundSeveral hospitals in Norway provide short self-referral inpatient treatment to patients with severe mental diagnosis. No studies have compared the experiences of patients who have had the opportunity to self-refer to inpatient treatment with patients who have received treatment as usual. This qualitative study was nested within a randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of self-referral to inpatient treatment. The aim was to explore how patients with severe mental diagnosis coped four months after signing a contract for self-referral, as compared to patients receiving treatment as usual.
methodsData was collected using qualitative individual interviews with patients with severe mental diagnosis, conducted four months after being randomised either to a contract for self-referral (intervention group) or to treatment as usual (control group).
resultsTwenty-five patients participated in interviews - 11 from the intervention group and 14 from the control group. Results four months after randomisation showed that patients with a contract for self-referral appeared to have more confidence in strategies to cope with mental illness and to apply more active cognitive strategies. Patients with a contract also expressed less resignation, hopelessness and powerlessness than patients without a contract. In addition, patients with a contract seemed to be closer to the ideal of living a "normal" life and being a "normal" person.
conclusionThe results indicate that the patients who had a contract for self-referral had come further in the recovery process and should possibly be better off during treatment.
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