Psychiatric Day Hospitals: the Patients and their Preferences in Treatment

Baker, G. H. B.; Gardiner, Bernard; Perez-Gil, J.; Wood, R. J.

doi:10.1177/002076408603200408

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“…These findings support other research which indicates that a high proportion of service users saw the social aspects of day hospitals as their most important feature (Baker et al 1986, Holloway 1988). The idea that socialization is important is true for most individuals.…”

Section: Meeting Peoplesupporting

confidence: 90%

Service users’ perceptions of a psychiatric day hospital

Firby

Boothroyd

2007

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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There has been increasing interest in the views of service users within the National Health Service (NHS). This exploratory study used tape recorded semi-structured interviews with users (31) attending one psychiatric day hospital. It sought to elicit information about the service users perceptions of their attendance.The service users indicated that they saw the day hospital as providing social contact with others, and that it taught them strategies of how to cope with their disorder. Many of them indicated that social isolation from the 'outside world' was their predominate problem. Some appeared to have become reliant on the day hospital for the social contacts that it provided.simply part of the process of being a psychiatric day patient. This paper argues that dependence on the day hospital can be seen as

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Section: Meeting Peoplesupporting

confidence: 90%

Service users’ perceptions of a psychiatric day hospital

Firby

Boothroyd

2007

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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“…Indeed, if this issue is ignored and a rehabilitation programme within the day hospital focuses entirely on interpersonal development, to the detriment of occupational and social activities, then increased stress is likely to be experienced. Vaughan and Prechner (1985) concurred that clients of a day hospital gained as much benefit from practical and social activities as from more traditional formal psychiatric treatments, such as group psychotherapy . Baker et al (1986) also report on the benefits of attendance as being 'getting out of the house'; 'mixing with others'; 'opportunities to discuss problems'; as well as 'taking part in activities'.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reasons for non‐attendance at a day hospital for people with enduring mental illness: the clients' perspective

Mcgonagle¹,

Gentle

1996

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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This paper describes a research project which aimed to discover the reasons clients give for failing to attend a mental health day hospital. There was concern that this service provision, for people with enduring mental illness, had a high level of non-attendance and therefore might not be meeting the needs of the people for whom it is targeted. Over a period of 6 months 36 people failed to attend, despite assessment and apparent agreement to attend. Of the 36, 14 agreed to talk about their reasons for not attending. An open interview format was used which enabled the clients to talk in depth about their experiences, which they felt led to the decision to stop attending. Content analysis of the interview data resulted in the identification of common themes. Main findings suggest a lack of partnership in decisions on choice of therapy, particularly the emphasis on groupwork, which 86% found unhelpful. Other main factors for non-attendance were a lack of an individual approach to care, not being listened to, and a lack of warmth from the staff. Recommendations for future practice are given, with particular attention to the need to develop a partnership with clients aimed at meeting individual needs.

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“…During the 1980s, several qualitative studies were conducted regarding users' perspectives of mental health day hospitals, focusing primarily on factors contributing to beneficial effects (Baker et al, 1986;Hoge et al, 1988;Holloway, 1989;Hsu et al, 1983). In the last decade, a few studies on users' perspectives about day hospitals corroborated findings from other studies regarding facilitating factors that contributed to the recovery process (Larivie `re et al, 2009(Larivie `re et al, , 2010Mo ¨rtl & Von Wietersheim, 2008).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%