Information on antidepressants for psychiatric inpatients: the divide between patient needs and professional practice.

Background: Medicine information is an integral part of patient care and a patient right. In particular, patients with a mental health diagnosis have a need for information on medicines.

Objective: This study aims to describe the current practice on information provision on antidepressants to inpatients in psychiatric hospitals.

Following up patients with depression after hospital discharge: a mixed methods approach.

Background: A medication information intervention was delivered to patients with a major depressive episode prior to psychiatric hospital discharge.

Methods: The objective of this study was to explore how patients evolved after hospital discharge and to identify factors influencing this evolution. Using a quasi-experimental longitudinal design, the quantitative analysis measured clinical (using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the somatic dimension of the Symptom Checklist 90 and recording the number of readmissions) and humanistic (using the Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire) outcomes of patients via telephone contacts up to one year following discharge.

Constraints and perspectives of pharmacists counseling patients with depression at hospital discharge.

Objective Of The Study: This study aims to explore experiences, barriers and enabling factors during an antidepressant counseling study as well as to explore future initiatives.

Setting: 11 Flemish psychiatric hospitals.

Method: Focus group discussions were organized.

Palliative inpatients in general hospitals: a one day observational study in Belgium.

Background: Hospital care plays a major role at the end-of-life. But little is known about the overall size and characteristics of the palliative inpatient population. The aim of our study was to analyse these aspects.

Pathway for inpatients with depressive episode in Flemish psychiatric hospitals: a qualitative study.

Background: Within the context of a biopsychosocial model of the treatment of depressive episodes, a multidisciplinary approach is needed. Clinical pathways have been developed and implemented in hospitals to support multidisciplinary teamwork. The aim of this study is to explore current practice for the treatment of depressive episodes in Flemish psychiatric hospitals.