ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2024
Shortcomings of services for persons with severe and persistent mental health challenges: a qualitative study of service users and family carers.
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- The qualitative accounts of black informal carers of people with psychosis and their experiences accessing mental health services: a systematic review.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Pooled it
- 'Knocking on the Door, Saying, "Can We Come in?"': Carers' Experiences of Engagement With Healthcare Workers in Inpatient Mental Health Services.Journal of clinical nursing · 2026Article
- An Exploratory Study of Research Needed for the Improvement of Care and Services for Persons with a Lived Experience of Mental Health Challenges.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- A nationally representative survey of the impact of discrimination towards people with mental health problems: SANE's 2025 National Stigma Report Card.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2026Article
- The development and evaluation of the Patient-Controlled Admission Fidelity Checklist.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Experiences of an unconditional cash transfer intervention among young adults with first-episode psychosis in South Africa: qualitative inquiry of patients and their caregivers.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- Evaluating youth mental health service integration in Australia using the Youth Integration Project framework.BMJ open quality · 2025Article
- The design and implementation of an innovative indicated suicide prevention service in Melbourne.Injury epidemiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: The opinions of service users and carers are crucial to identifying ways to innovate and implement system change. This study aims to explore the views and experiences of service users and carerson the services they have used for their mental health challenges and their suggestions for service reform. Methods: Twenty participants (15 carers and 5 service users) were interviewed for the study. Results: Eight categories emerged from the data. They were: Several gaps in the system, Barriers to accessing services, Services are not fit for purpose, Services operate in isolation, System is not person focused, Service users and carers are treated poorly, Services are overloaded and under resourced and Recommendations for service reform. Respondents reported that a persistent lack of funding and resources for mental health services was a main cause of these shortcomings. Respondents also noted that innovations were needed to re-orient services to enable continuity of care, and training of mental health professionals was needed for a better understanding of the needs of service users and their carers. Discussion: Additional research is needed with larger and more diverse samples to further explore these findings.
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