Hospital brochures in mental healthcare. how patient-centered are they?

Context: From the results of the 2020 Flemish survey looking into psychiatric patients' views of the in-patient care they have received, it appeared that hospital communication is experienced as not sufficiently patient-centered. In communication research, the quality of written patient materials in physical healthcare has been scrutinized and suggestions for the enhancement of their patient-centeredness, comprehensibility, and actionability have been made. Yet, a similar research interest in the quality of health communication in mental healthcare has failed to materialize.

Can popular magazines educate people with depression? An investigation of articles' understandability, reliability, and actionability.

Objective: to evaluate articles on depression published in popular magazines with respect to understandability, reliability, and actionability. To determine whether these articles can educate patients. To investigate whether the Clear Communication Index (CCI), developed to assess the quality of patient education materials produced by the medical sector, can be used to evaluate articles published in popular magazines.

Do we all speak the same language? A critical systemic functional discourse analysis of psychiatric hospital brochures.

Background: Over the last decades, treatment of patients with mental health diseases has shifted from longer-term in-hospital diagnosis and treatment to brief crisis diagnostic and/or treatment stays in hospital wards combined with ambulatory care preventing relapse and promoting patient-centered recovery. To guarantee a shared understanding of the nature of the care provided, it is important that hospital brochures and ambulatory care information are aligned, both in the way in which they define and understand recovery and regarding how they approach the empowerment and activation of the patient.

Aim And Research Questions: The overall aim of the study was to shed light on whether (1) hospital brochures used in crisis intervention centres in Flanders reflect the tenets of recovery-oriented and empowering care, and (2) the encoded messages are reflective of patients and their needs.

Task complexity, student perceptions of vocabulary learning in EFL, and task performance.

Background: The study deepened our understanding of how students' self-efficacy beliefs contribute to the context of teaching English as a foreign language in the framework of cognitive mediational paradigm at a fine-tuned task-specific level.

Aim: The aim was to examine the relationship among task complexity, self-efficacy beliefs, domain-related prior knowledge, learning strategy use, and task performance as they were applied to English vocabulary learning from reading tasks.

Sample: Participants were 120 second-year university students (mean age 21) from a Chinese university.