Mental Health Service Evaluation

by Edited by Helle Charlotte Knudsen , Graham Thornicroft , Foreword by Norman Sartorius

• ISBN13: 9780521460880
• ISBN10: 0521460883
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

With the emerging international consensus towards community care of the mentally ill, there comes a growing need for meaningful evaluation of services. Redressing the current lack of guidance this book describes how to do mental health service research. It comprehensively reviews the most recent developments in research design, method and measurement at the level of both whole service systems and individual programmes within mental health services. Each of the issues is adeptly illustrated with practical descriptions of comprehensive evaluation projects. The important advances already achieved in knowledge about effective services are highlighted along with descriptions of future work that will further develop our understanding of meeting patient requirements. This volume will appeal to all who are involved in mental health service research as well as those who make use of their results.

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction: 1. Deinstitutionalisation: promises, problems and prospects L. L. Bachrach

2. Background and goals of evaluative research in community psychiatry H. Hä

fner, and W.an der Heiden

3. Research designs for the evaluation of services J. K.Wing

4. Evaulation and public policy F. J. Sullivan

Part II. Comprehensive Service Evaluation Projects: 5. The Copenhagen community psychiatric project (CCPP) H. C. Knudsen, A. Krasnik, M. Nordentoft, B. Jessen-Petersen, and H. Sæ

lan

6. The Mannheim project H. Hä

fner, and W. an der Heiden

7. Psychiatric evaluation as a process of quality assurance C-G. Stefansson

Part III. Methods-Measurement, Strategies and New Approaches: 8. Strategies of measurement and analyses W. W. Eaton

9. Experimental and quasi-experimental design in evaluative research W. an der Heiden

10. An informal introduction to graphical modelling S. Kreiner

11. Meta-analysis C. Adams, N. Freemantle, and G. Lewis

Part IV. System Level Research: 12. Sectorized services outcome research L. Hansson

13. Dynamic analysis of patterns of care S. Sytema, and T. Oldehinkel

14. Social indicators of outcome at the system level P. Huxley

15. Psychiatric admission rates: the relationship with health and social factors and the effects of confounding variables B. Jarman

Part V. Programme Level Research: 16. Randomised controlled trials of programmes H. Kluiter, and D. Wiersma

17. Individual patient outcomes M. Rugeri, and M. Tansella

18. Caregiving in severe mental illness: conceptualization and measurement A. H. Schene, R. C. Tessler, and G. Gamache

19. Needs assessment G. Thornicroft, M. Phelan, and G.Strathdee

Part VI. Health Economics in Mental Health: 20. Programme-level and system-level health economics M. Knapp, and J. Beecham.