Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development

Particular strengths of the MRC Needs for Care Assessment Schedule have been used to investigate the treatment status of patients with persistent psychiatric disability in ways that other needs assessment tools are unable to. One hundred and seventy-nine such patients from three settings; a private...

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Main Authors: Middleton, Hugh, Adeniran, Richard, Brewin, Chris R., Brady, Carol, Duggan, Conor, Hopkins, Nigel, Raleigh, Kay, Walton, Mark
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Published: Routledge 2002
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author Middleton, Hugh
Adeniran, Richard
Brewin, Chris R.
Brady, Carol
Duggan, Conor
Hopkins, Nigel
Raleigh, Kay
Walton, Mark
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Adeniran, Richard
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Brady, Carol
Duggan, Conor
Hopkins, Nigel
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Walton, Mark
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description Particular strengths of the MRC Needs for Care Assessment Schedule have been used to investigate the treatment status of patients with persistent psychiatric disability in ways that other needs assessment tools are unable to. One hundred and seventy-nine such patients from three settings; a private sector psychiatric hospital, two public sector day hospitals situated in the same town, and a high security hospital, were found to have a high level of need. Although there were differences between settings, overall these needs were well met in all three. The high level of persistent disability found amongst these patients could not be attributed to failure on the part of those treating them to use the best available methods, or to failures to comply or engage with treatment on the patient's part. In some two thirds of instances persistent disability was best explained by the fact that even the most suitable available treatments have to be considered only partially effective.
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spelling nottingham-7852020-05-04T20:32:24Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/785/ Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development Middleton, Hugh Adeniran, Richard Brewin, Chris R. Brady, Carol Duggan, Conor Hopkins, Nigel Raleigh, Kay Walton, Mark Particular strengths of the MRC Needs for Care Assessment Schedule have been used to investigate the treatment status of patients with persistent psychiatric disability in ways that other needs assessment tools are unable to. One hundred and seventy-nine such patients from three settings; a private sector psychiatric hospital, two public sector day hospitals situated in the same town, and a high security hospital, were found to have a high level of need. Although there were differences between settings, overall these needs were well met in all three. The high level of persistent disability found amongst these patients could not be attributed to failure on the part of those treating them to use the best available methods, or to failures to comply or engage with treatment on the patient's part. In some two thirds of instances persistent disability was best explained by the fact that even the most suitable available treatments have to be considered only partially effective. Routledge 2002 Article PeerReviewed Middleton, Hugh, Adeniran, Richard, Brewin, Chris R., Brady, Carol, Duggan, Conor, Hopkins, Nigel, Raleigh, Kay and Walton, Mark (2002) Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development. Journal of Mental Health, 11 . pp. 55-65. Needs Assessment Continuing Disability Patients Enduring Mental Illness Service Development http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09638237.asp
spellingShingle Needs Assessment
Continuing Disability
Patients
Enduring Mental Illness
Service Development
Middleton, Hugh
Adeniran, Richard
Brewin, Chris R.
Brady, Carol
Duggan, Conor
Hopkins, Nigel
Raleigh, Kay
Walton, Mark
Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development
title Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development
title_full Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development
title_fullStr Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development
title_full_unstemmed Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development
title_short Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development
title_sort using needs assessment to understand continuing disability in patients with enduring mental illness. implications for considerations of service development
topic Needs Assessment
Continuing Disability
Patients
Enduring Mental Illness
Service Development
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/785/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/785/