Aims And Objectives: In the medical field, we lack knowledge on how interprofessional collaboration across sectors is carried out. This paper explores how healthcare professionals and users perceive recovery-oriented cross-sectoral discharge network meetings between mental health hospital professionals and community mental health professionals and which discourses manifest themselves within the field of mental healthcare.
Method: Ten professionals from a mental health hospital and eight community mental health professionals participated.
Issues Ment Health Nurs
February 2022
Recovery-oriented cross-sectoral collaboration is a cornerstone of the debate concerning health professionals and users of mental health services and constitutes an objective n government health policy in Scandinavia and other Western countries. Users do not find that professionals communicate with each other across specific sectors regarding plans that have been prepared. They often experience that they have to start over again every time they switch between treatment locations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: This study aimed to explore how healthcare professionals and users could perceive user involvement in the handover between mental health hospitals and community mental healthcare, drawing on the discourse analysis framework from Fairclough.
Methods: A qualitative research design with purposive sampling was adopted. Five audio-recorded focus group interviews with nurses, users and other health professionals were explored using Fairclough's discourse analysis framework.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
November 2020
Unlabelled: This study aimed to explore how mental health professionals and users perceive recovery-oriented intersectoral care when comparing mental health hospitals and community mental healthcare. Methodological design: Five audio-recorded focus group interviews of nurses, other health professionals and users were explored using manifest and latent content analysis.
Ethical Issues And Approval: The study was designed in accordance with the ethical principles of the Helsinki Declaration and Danish law.
Background: Recovery-oriented intersectoral care is described as an aim in mental healthcare to create a holistic framework for planning that provides integration of treatment and rehabilitation. Existing studies show that nurses and other professionals do not take responsibility for the collaborative element of intersectoral care between mental health hospitals and community mental health services. The users of mental healthcare do not experience their patient journey as a cohesive process when they are discharged from a mental health hospital to community mental health services.
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