Staff perspectives on using the Recovery Star in mental health inpatient rehabilitation services

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Sanaa Kadir ◽  
Kelly Fenton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Inpatient Rehabilitation ◽  
Rehabilitation Services

The role of specialist inpatient rehabilitation services for people with intellectual disability, autism and mental health, behavioural or forensic needs

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 204-215
Author(s):  
Mahesh Odiyoor ◽  
Samuel Joseph Tromans ◽  
Regi T. Alexander ◽  
Srinaveen Akbari ◽  
Gill Bell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Inpatient Rehabilitation ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Uk

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a professional consensus position with regard to the provision of specialist inpatient rehabilitation services for people with intellectual disability (ID), autism and mental health, behavioural or forensic needs in the UK. Design/methodology/approach The concept of rehabilitation is discussed, as well as the functions and goals of specialist inpatient rehabilitation services with regard to the aforementioned contexts. Current use of rehabilitation beds is considered, both on a regional and national scale, as well as various outcome measures, including effectiveness, patient safety and patient experience. Findings There is a clear need for specialist inpatient rehabilitation services, though historically there have been instances of inappropriate admissions, as well as lengthy inpatient stays that could have been significantly reduced with the right type of community support package. Such services should be subjected to rigorous measurement of outcome measures, to determine that patients within such services are receiving a consistently high standard of care. Additionally, amendments to current legal frameworks should be considered, with a view to accommodating for individuals with capacity who require continuous community-based supervision. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first article detailing a professional consensus position for specialist inpatient rehabilitation services for people with ID, autism and mental health, behavioural or forensic needs.

Assessing the quality of mental health rehabilitation services

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 167-173
Author(s):  
H. Killaspy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Inpatient Rehabilitation ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Term Treatment ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Recovery Orientation ◽  
Health Rehabilitation ◽  
Mental Health Rehabilitation

Summary Background: Mental health rehabilitation services focus on people with severe and complex problems that impair their function and make them potentially vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. They require longer term treatment and support from a range of inpatient and community services that hold therapeutic optimism and adopt a recovery orientation. Aims: In recent years, specific tools and processes have been developed to facilitate assessment of the quality of care in services that provide rehabilitation. These include the built environments where people receive support, the therapeutic culture of these facilities, the treatments and interventions provided, the degree to which autonomy and community engagement are promoted, and the process for safeguarding human rights. Results: When local rehabilitation services are available, most people are able to be successfully discharged to the community, achieving greater independence incrementally. The quality of inpatient rehabilitation services has been shown to be positively associated with service users’ autonomy, the main aim of rehabilitation, with the most important aspect being the recovery orientation of the service.

Abstract P35: The Trend of Stroke Rehabilitation Utilization Between 2014- 2019 in a Community Based Study

Stroke ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (Suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Uhm ◽  
Esther Olasoji ◽  
Alexis N Simpkins ◽  
Carolyn Geis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Trend Analysis ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Inpatient Rehabilitation ◽  
Outpatient Rehabilitation ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Ischemic Attack ◽  
Over Time

Introduction: Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability in adults, resulting in significant impairments in motor, sensory, and/ or cognitive that often requires continued rehabilitation services, which vary from intensive acute inpatient rehabilitation to outpatient rehabilitation services. Efforts to reduce disability have advanced rapidly over the past several years. Our data analysis was undertaken to assess whether recent changes in clinical practice have impacted the proportion of stroke patients receiving inpatient versus outpatient rehabilitation over time between 2014-2019 at our institution, which serves a diverse mix of rural, suburban, and urban populations. Methods: Our Institutional Review Board approved retrospective stroke database, including adult patients discharged to receive rehabilitation services data from 2014-2019, was used for analysis. Cochran-Armitage trend analysis was used to assess for differences type of rehabilitation services used over time and regression analysis was used to identify clinical factors associated with discharge type over time. Results: A total of 3467 patients were included in the analysis, 50% woman, 1% Asian, 20% Black, 75% White, 4% undetermined race, 17% intracerebral hemorrhage, 65% ischemic stroke, 11% subarachnoid hemorrhage, 3% transient ischemic attack, 3% other cerebrovascular disease. In this community population, 65% were discharged to inpatient rehab. Trend analysis demonstrated a significant increase in the proportion of patients being discharged home with rehab services, p<.0001. In comparison to those discharged home, patients discharged to rehab were older (odds ratio (OR) 1.02, confidence interval (CI) 1.02-1.03), with a higher NIHSS (OR 1.16, CI 1.14-1.18), discharged in 2014 (OR 1.72, CI 1.23-2.39) or 2016 (OR 1.46, CI 1.05-2.05) versus 2019. There was no association with race, gender, or discharge in 2015, 2017, or 2018. Discussion: Our findings demonstrate the community impact of recent changes in clinical practice guidelines for stroke. The increasing trend of home discharges is encouraging, but the significant proportion of those still not discharged home suggests there is still more work to be done to reduce stroke associated disability in adults.

scholarly journals Mental health reforms in the Czech Republic

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ondrej Pec
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Health Reform ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Mental Health Reform ◽  
Mental Health Reforms ◽  
Community Based Services

This paper describes the history and current provision of mental healthcare in the Czech Republic. After the political changes in 1989, there was an expansion of out-patient care and several non-governmental organisations began to provide social rehabilitation services, but the main focus of care still rested on mental hospitals. In recent years, mental health reform has been in progress, which has involved expanding community-based services and psychiatric wards of general hospitals, simultaneously with educational and destigmatisation programmes.

Abstract WP165: Mexican Americans Receive Less Intensive Stroke Rehabilitation Than non Hispanic Whites

Stroke ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis B Morgenstern ◽  
Emma Sais ◽  
Michael Fuentes ◽  
Nneka Ifejika ◽  
Xiaqing Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Stroke Rehabilitation ◽  
Inpatient Rehabilitation ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Cognitive Outcomes ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Population Based Study ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Chi Squared

Background: Mexican Americans (MAs) have worse neurologic, functional and cognitive outcomes after stroke than non Hispanic whites (NHWs). Stroke rehabilitation is important for outcome. In a population-based study, we sought to determine if allocation of stroke rehabilitation services differed by ethnicity. Methods: Consecutive stroke patients were identified for a three month time period as part of the Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi (BASIC) project, Texas, USA. Cases were validated by physicians using source documentation. Patients were followed prospectively for three months following stroke to determine self-reported rehabilitation services. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the study population. Ethnic comparisons of rehabilitation services were made using chi-squared or Fisher’s exact tests. Results: Seventy-two subjects (50 MA, 22 NHW) were followed. Mean age, NHW-69 (sd-13), MA-66 (sd-11) years, sex (NHW 55% male, MA 50% male) and median presenting NIHSS (NHW-2.5, MA-3.0) did not differ significantly. There were no ethnic differences in the proportion of patients who were discharged home without rehabilitation services (p=0.9). Among those who received rehabilitation (n=48), the figure shows the distribution of the first place for services. NHWs were more likely to be discharged to inpatient rehabilitation (73%) compared with MAs (30%), p=0.016. MAs (51%) were much more likely to be receive home rehabilitation services compared with NHWs (0%) (p=0.0017). Conclusions: In this population-based study, MAs were more likely to receive home-based rehabilitation while NHWs more likely to get inpatient rehabilitation. This disparity may, in part, explain the worse stroke outcome in MAs.

Misconceptions about Veterans and Health

Pained ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 69-72
Author(s):  
Michael D. Stein ◽  
Sandro Galea
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Veterans Health ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Physical Health Problems ◽  
The Military

This chapter studies the health of veterans and the military. Since the first Gulf War in 1990, veterans have had worse mortality than the general population. Aside from mortality, mental health problems are a particular concern. More soldiers kill themselves than are killed on the battlefield. Beyond suicide, key mental health concerns among veterans include posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Itself disruptive, PTSD foreshadows increased risks of physical health problems, substance use/misuse, homelessness, and violence. Less studied, but equally important, are high rates of depression and anxiety among veterans. Rates of chronic pain and physical disability are also high. These challenges make the Veterans Health Administration’s unique expertise in mental health care provision and rehabilitation services all the more crucial. For these reasons, moves to privatize veterans’ health care and narrow access to these services do veterans a disservice, shortchanging a fundamental social contract. The health of soldiers is the public’s health.

Enhancing Successful Employment Outcomes for People with a Psychiatric Disability

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Maxie Ashton ◽  
Josephine Dowsett
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Psychiatric Disability ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
Successful Employment

Work, for most people with psychiatric disability, is their most important goal and yet they often have more difficulty getting work and maintaining work than other disability groups. Six focus groups were held with consumers of mental health services to explore the reason for this and identify what rehabilitation services should do about this problem. The groups recommended many strategies which have been divided by the authors into three rehabilitation phases. Three check lists have been developed to assist service providers address the range of needs with consumers during the rehabilitation process and to identify service gaps.

scholarly journals Social care: an essential aspect of mental health rehabilitation services

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. J. Craig
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Personal Recovery ◽  
Social Interventions ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThis study is aimed at the importance of social care in rehabilitation. A brief overview of the social care theme is used as the methodology. There is a tension in mental health care between biological and psychological treatments that focus on deficits at the individual level (symptoms, disabilities) and social interventions that try to address local inequalities and barriers in order to improve access for service users to ordinary housing, employment and leisure opportunities. The history of mental health care tells us that social care is often underfunded and too easily dismissed as not the business of health care. But too much emphasis on a health model of individual deficits is a slippery slope to institutionalisation by way of therapeutic nihilism. Rehabilitation services follow the biopsychosocial model but with a shift in emphasis, recognising the vital role played by social interventions in improving the functional outcomes that matter to service users including access to housing, occupation, leisure facilities and the support of family and friends. In conclusion, rehabilitation is framed within a model of personal recovery in which the target of intervention is to boost hope and help the individual find a meaning to life, living well regardless of enduring symptoms.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document