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Safely cared for or empowered in mental health care? Yes, please

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  • Marit B Rise
  • Heidi Westerlund
  • Dagfinn Bjørgen
  • Aslak Steinsbekk

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Background: High-quality health services include both safe care as well as involving service users in treatment and decision-making. Material: The aim was to explore how mental health service users perceive the relationship between safe care on the one hand and increased influence and decision-making on the other. This was a qualitative study of 15 User Interviewing User evaluation reports, including 417 service users. Discussion: Safe and predictable care was essential in poor illness phases, while increased influence and independence were more important in better phases. Conclusions: High-quality services are flexible enough to adjust to users’ varying symptoms and needs.

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  • Marit B Rise & Heidi Westerlund & Dagfinn Bjørgen & Aslak Steinsbekk, 2014. "Safely cared for or empowered in mental health care? Yes, please," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 60(2), pages 134-138, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:60:y:2014:i:2:p:134-138
    DOI: 10.1177/0020764012471278
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    1. Marit Solbjør & Marit By Rise & Heidi Westerlund & Aslak Steinsbekk, 2013. "Patient participation in mental healthcare: When is it difficult? A qualitative study of users and providers in a mental health hospital in Norway," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 59(2), pages 107-113, March.
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