Patient experiences with care across various types of mental health care: Questionnaire development, measurement invariance, and patients' reports.

To describe the development, validation, and findings of a patient experience questionnaire across 7 types of residential and ambulatory mental health care services. Thirty-five items were hypothesized to cover information, participation, therapeutic relationship, personalized care, organization and collaboration, safety, patient rights, outcomes of care, and discharge preparation and after-care. Also included were 2 overall rating items (scoring and recommending the organization).

Barriers to evidence-based nursing: a focus group study.

Aim: This paper reports a study to explore the barriers to evidence-based nursing among Flemish (Belgian) nurses.

Background: Barriers obstructing the call for an increase in evidence-based nursing have been explored in many countries, mostly through quantitative study designs. Authors report on lack of time, resources, evidence, authority, support, motivation and resistance to change.