Increasing chronic disease preventive care in community mental health services: clinician-generated strategies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with a mental health condition experience a high prevalence of chronic disease risk behaviours e.g., tobacco smoking and physical inactivity. Recommended 'preventive care' to address these risks is infrequently provided by community mental health services. This study aimed to elucidate, among community mental health managers and clinicians, suggestions for strategies to support provision of preventive care.

Methods

Three qualitative focus groups (n = 14 clinicians) were undertaken in one regional community mental health service to gather perspectives of barriers to preventive care provision, deductively coded against the domains of the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF). Drawing on the learnings from the focus groups, individual interviews (n = 15 managers

SUBMITTER: Fehily C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10714530 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature