Initial Co-Design Development of a Questionnaire to Measure Patient Preferences in a Danish Mental Healthcare Setting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite decades of quality improvement efforts in mental healthcare, patient preferences remain insufficiently integrated into care planning and system design. Although person-centered care strives to align services with patients' most valued preferences, current tools for measuring those preferences often fall short. Embedding co-design approaches-where patients and other stakeholders collaborate as equal partners in tool development-is essential to ensure that measurement instruments are both relevant and resonant with lived experience. This study aimed to develop a questionnaire that captures patient preferences in mental healthcare through a co-design process that actively integrates lived experience, thereby enhancing face and content validity.

Methods

The de

SUBMITTER: Kristensen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12808807 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature