Exploring lived experiences in home-based psychiatric care: a qualitative study of service users, families, and professionals in Spain.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Psychiatric home care provides a wide range of multidisciplinary, user-centered, high-intensity psychiatric interventions to manage mental health crises. Previous studies have found high satisfaction with care, but only assessed user and nurse perspectives. This study aimed to understand the experience of a psychiatric home hospitalization program in Spain from the perspective of all involved (users, families and healthcare professionals).

Materials and methods

A qualitative study with a phenomenological approach was conducted to assess "Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment" (CRHT), a psychiatric home care program. Semi-structured individual and group interviews were held between 2021 and 2022. The final sample size was determined by saturation and data were ana

SUBMITTER: Besoain-Cornejo AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12500623 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature