Assessing perceived need for mental health care in a community survey: development of the Perceived Need for Care Questionnaire (PNCQ)

Abstract

The PNCQ shows acceptable feasibility, reliability and validity, adding to the range of assessment tools available for epidemiological and health services research.

Perceived need for mental health care among non-western labour migrants

“…This might explain why we found high (unmet) need for 'social interventions', defined as interventions ''to help sort out housing or money problems'' [30]. Although this result was not ethnicity-specific, previous studies in the Netherlands found a need for more collaboration between social work and mental health care for ethnic minority patients which has been acknowledged and supported by health care professionals in the Netherlands [34].…”

“…The percentages for ethnic Dutch and Moroccans were comparable to what has been reported in other studies. For example, Meadows et al [30] reported approximately 14% of Australians to have a perceived need for care using the PNCQ. Furthermore, Katz et al [19] found a perceived need for care in the past 12 months among nineteen percent of respondents in the US and twelve percent in Ontario.…”

“…Perceived need for mental health care in the past six months was measured with the perceived need for care questionnaire (PNCQ) [30,31]. The PNCQ was developed to measure need for mental health care, as well as the extent to which needs are met, from the perspective of the patient.…”

The Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA): rationale, objectives and methods

“…This is surprising, as depression and anxiety are disorders with high levels of non-adaptive illness behaviour. NESDA included the Quote instrument (Sixma et al, 1998) to measure experience and evaluation of care for mental health and the Perceived Need of Care questionnaire (Meadows et al, 2000) to assess a person's care needs.…”

Phase II trial of a depression self-care intervention for adult cancer survivors

“…We used the Perceived Needs for Care Questionnaire (PNCQ) to assess perceived unmet needs for mental health care in five areas: information, counselling, skills development related to ability to work and to look after oneself, social intervention and medications for emotional or mood problems (Meadows, Harvey, Fossey, & Burgess, 2000).…”