scholarly journals Mental Health Care of Transsexual, Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People in Croatian Health System

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-26
Author(s):  
I. Zegura ◽  
◽  
G. Arbanas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Gender Transition ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Transgender Health ◽  
Objective Health ◽  
Transgender Persons

Objective: Health and legal care of transgender people in Croatia is still at its beginnings. Further effort from the professional side is being engaged in order to establish complete health care of transgender people in Croatia. Design and Method: The aim was to examine if there are any differences in the levels of transgender persons quality of life, experienced violence and their present stage of gender transition and perceived level of social support and perceived quality of health care. Transgender clients who are in the process of gender transition within Croatian mental health system were asked to fill in the online questionnaire. Results: 80% of our transgender participants consider psychologists as the most competent and affirmative professionals concerning transgender health care. 15.6% say the same for psychiatrists and 4.4% consider endocrinologists as the most competent professionals to deal with transgender health issues. 28.8% of our participants are mostly or completely satisfied with mental health care, in contrast to only 6.6 % of those who are satisfied with medical health care. Conclusions: According to the facts that we have presented above, the agenda of health, mental health and legal care of transgender people in Croatia must be to build on permanent education, scientific work, ethical principles, standards of care and accessible health care. Minding the human rights of each patient, high quality of practice must be governed by the principles of competence in the work with transgender clients through affirmation of gender as personal construct of each client.

Depressions Plural

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
K W M (Bill) Fulford ◽  
David Crepaz-Keay ◽  
Giovanni Stanghellini
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
The Political ◽  
Medical Law ◽  
Isaiah Berlin ◽  
Political Philosopher

This chapter examines how values influence the heterogeneity of depression. The plurality of values is increasingly significant for contemporary person-centred mental health care with its emphasis on quality of life and development of self-manvnagement skills. Values-based practice is a partner with medical law invn working with the plurality of personal values. The chapter explains what values are, shows how the plurality of values influences the heterogeneity of depression at several levels, and provides an overview of values-based practice. It looks at the resources available for combining values-based practice with medical law in contemporary person-centred care and indicates some of the challenges this raises. It concludes with a brief reflection on these challenges understood as an instance of what the political philosopher Isaiah Berlin called the challenge of pluralism.

scholarly journals The Quality Mental Health Care Network: A roadmap to improving quality mental healthcare in Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-106
Author(s):  
Emily J. Follwell ◽  
Siri Chunduri ◽  
Claire Samuelson-Kiraly ◽  
Nicholas Watters ◽  
Jonathan I. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Care Network ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Health Care Network

Although there are numerous quality of care frameworks, little attention has been given to the essential concepts that encompass quality mental healthcare. HealthCare CAN and the Mental Health Commission of Canada co-lead the Quality Mental Health Care Network (QMHCN), which has developed a quality mental healthcare framework, building on existing provincial, national, and international frameworks. HealthCare CAN conducted an environmental scan, key informant interviews, and focus groups with individuals with lived experiences to develop the framework. This article outlines the findings from this scan, interviews and focus groups.

scholarly journals Inpatient Volume and Quality of Mental Health Care Among Patients With Unipolar Depression

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (7) ◽  
pp. 797-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Line Ryberg Rasmussen ◽  
Jan Mainz ◽  
Mette Jørgensen ◽  
Poul Videbech ◽  
Søren Paaske Johnsen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Unipolar Depression

scholarly journals Improving the quality of mental health care

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 415-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Funk ◽  
C. Lund ◽  
M. Freeman ◽  
N. Drew
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care

Mental health care in Italy: Basaglia’s ashes in the wind of the crisis of the last decade

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro G Carta ◽  
Matthias C Angermeyer ◽  
Anita Holzinger
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Italian Experience ◽  
Italian Regions ◽  
Care Culture ◽  
Health Care Culture

Background and Aims: The purpose is to highlight the legal and ethical principles that inspired the reform of mental health care in Italy, the only country to have closed its psychiatric hospitals. The article will also try to verify some macro-indicators of the quality of care and discuss the crisis that the mental health care system in Italy is experiencing. Methods: Narrative review. Results: The principal changes in the legislation on mental health care in Italy assumed an important role in the evolution of morals and common sense of the civil society of that country. We describe three critical points: first, the differences in implementation in the different Italian regions; second, the progressive lack of resources that cannot be totally attributed to the economic crisis and which has compromised application of the law; and finally, the scarce attention given to measurement of change with scientific methods. Conclusion: Italy created a revolutionary approach to mental health care in a historical framework in which it produced impressive cultural expressions in many fields. At that time, people were accustomed to ‘believing and doing’ rather than questioning results and producing research, and this led to underestimating the importance of a scientific approach. With its economic and cultural crisis, Italy has lost creativity as well as interest in mental health, which has been guiltily neglected. Any future humanitarian approach to mental health must take the Italian experience into account, but must not forget that verification is the basis for any transformation in health care culture.

scholarly journals Realist Evaluation of the Use of Patient Experience Data to Improve the Quality of Inpatient Mental Health Care (EURIPIDES) in England: study protocol

BMJ Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. e021013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Weich ◽  
Sarah-Jane Hannah Fenton ◽  
Kamaldeep Bhui ◽  
Sophie Staniszewska ◽  
Jason Madan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Study Protocol ◽  
Realist Evaluation ◽  
Inpatient Mental Health

USING TELEHEALTH TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE ACCESS AND QUALITY OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE TO OLDER VETERANS

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. S20
Author(s):  
Lisa Boyle ◽  
Julie Filips ◽  
Susan Schultz ◽  
Audra Yadack ◽  
Muhammad Aslam
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Access And Quality ◽  
Improve Access

scholarly journals Challenges in Investigating the Effective Components of Feedback from Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) in Youth Mental Health Care

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maartje A. M. S. van Sonsbeek ◽  
Giel J. M. Hutschemaekers ◽  
Jan W. Veerman ◽  
Ad Vermulst ◽  
Marloes Kleinjan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Symptom Severity ◽  
Youth Mental Health ◽  
Routine Outcome Monitoring ◽  
Effective Components ◽  
Outcome Monitoring

Abstract BackGround Studies on feedback in youth mental health care are scarce and implementation of feedback into clinical practice is problematic. Objective To investigate potentially effective components of feedback from Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) in youth mental health care in the Netherlands through a three-arm, parallel-group, randomized controlled trial in which a literature-based, multi-faceted implementation strategy was used. Method Participants were randomly allocated to three conditions (basic feedback about symptoms and quality of life; basic feedback supplemented with clinical support tools; discussion of the feedback of the second condition with a colleague while following a standardized format for case consultation) using a block randomization procedure, stratified by location and participants’ age. The youth sample consisted of 225 participants (mean age = 15.08 years; 61.8% female) and the parent sample of 234 mothers and 54 fathers (mean age of children = 12.50 years; 47.2% female). Primary outcome was symptom severity. Secondary outcomes were quality of life and end-of-treatment variables. Additionally, we evaluated whether being Not On Track (NOT) moderated the association between condition and changes in symptom severity. Results No significant differences between conditions and no moderating effect of being NOT were found. This outcome can probably be attributed to limited power and implementation difficulties, such as infrequent ROM, unknown levels of viewing and sharing of feedback, and clinicians’ poor adherence to feedback conditions. Conclusions The study contributes to our limited knowledge about feedback from ROM and underscores the complexity of research on and implementation of ROM within youth mental health care. Trial registration Dutch Trial Register NTR4234 .

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