Navigating Power Imbalances and Stigma in Mental Healthcare. Patient-Reported Barriers and Facilitators to Participation in Shared Decision-Making in Mental Health Care, a Qualitative Meta-Summary.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The use of shared decision-making (SDM) in mental healthcare has been viewed as at least as important as its use in non-mental healthcare settings, but it still does not routinely take place in this setting. To further explore SDM processes with people with lived experience, we provide a qualitative meta-summary on patient-reported barriers and facilitators to participation in SDM within the context of mental healthcare.

Methods

Within the set of selected studies for a larger qualitative meta-summary, using five databases, we selected the studies that had surveyed patients with mental illness for further analysis in this paper. Search terms were based on the concepts: 'decision making', 'patient participation', 'patient perceptions' and 'study design' of patient r

SUBMITTER: Mertens L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11974453 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature