ArticleWorld psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)2017
Implementing shared decision making in routine mental health care.
Article in World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04175366 (Shared Decision Making in Psychiatric Inpatient Care to Enhance Patient Participation), which is not on this map. Cited by 170 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Shared Decision Making in Psychiatric Inpatient Care to Enhance Patient Participation
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170 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of the Use of Blogs and Vlogs as Self-Expressors for People with Serious and Common Mental Illness.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Pooled it
- Supported Decision-Making Interventions in Mental Healthcare: A Systematic Review of Evidence on the Outcomes for People With Mental Ill Health.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Pooled it
- A meta-ethnography of shared decision-making in mental health care from the perspective of staff and service users.BMC health services research · 2024Pooled it
- Supported decision-making interventions in mental healthcare: A systematic review of current evidence and implementation barriers.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Pooled it
- Shifting Perspectives on the Challenges of Shared Decision Making in Mental Health Care.Community mental health journal · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review of shared decision making interventions in child and youth mental health: synthesising the use of theory, intervention functions, and behaviour change techniques.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Shared decision-making interventions for people with mental health conditions.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
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- Mental health professionals' perceived barriers and enablers to shared decision-making in risk assessment and risk management: a qualitative systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Achieving better outcomes for schizophrenia patients in Hong Kong: Strategies for improving treatment adherence.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2021Pooled it
- Case Study Analysis of a Decision Coaching Intervention for Young Adults with Early Psychosis.Community mental health journal · 2025Trial
- Information sharing across mental health service providers and criminal legal system stakeholders: Perspectives of people with serious mental illnesses and their family members.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Trial
- Barriers and facilitators of shared decision making in acutely ill inpatients with schizophrenia-Qualitative findings from the intervention group of a randomised-controlled trial.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021Trial
- Improving treatment decision-making in bipolar II disorder: a phase II randomised controlled trial of an online patient decision-aid.BMC psychiatry · 2020Trial
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- Experiential and Medical Knowledge of Shared Decision-Making: Exploring Clinician and Service User Perspectives in NHS Community Mental Health Services.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- Collaboration With Clinicians in Inpatient Mental Healthcare: A Qualitative Investigation of Consumer Perspectives.International journal of mental health nursing · 2026Article
- Empowering Collaboration With Patients: Healthcare Staff's Perspectives on Conditions for Shared Decision-Making in Swedish Psychiatric Care.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2026Article
- Postpandemic Use of Video-Based Psychotherapy Among German Outpatient Psychotherapists: Repeated Cross-Sectional and Partially Longitudinal Survey Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
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Abstract
Shared decision making (SDM) in mental health care involves clinicians and patients working together to make decisions. The key elements of SDM have been identified, decision support tools have been developed, and SDM has been recommended in mental health at policy level. Yet implementation remains limited. Two justifications are typically advanced in support of SDM. The clinical justification is that SDM leads to improved outcome, yet the available empirical evidence base is inconclusive. The ethical justification is that SDM is a right, but clinicians need to balance the biomedical ethical principles of autonomy and justice with beneficence and non-maleficence. It is argued that SDM is "polyvalent", a sociological concept which describes an idea commanding superficial but not deep agreement between disparate stakeholders. Implementing SDM in routine mental health services is as much a cultural as a technical problem. Three challenges are identified: creating widespread access to high-quality decision support tools; integrating SDM with other recovery-supporting interventions; and responding to cultural changes as patients develop the normal expectations of citizenship. Two approaches which may inform responses in the mental health system to these cultural changes - social marketing and the hospitality industry - are identified.
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