A qualitative process evaluation of electronic session-by-session outcome measurement in child and adolescent mental health services.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Regular monitoring of patient progress is important to assess the clinical effectiveness of an intervention. Recently, initiatives within UK child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) have advocated the use of session-by-session monitoring to continually evaluate the patient's outcome throughout the course of the intervention. However, the feasibility and acceptability of such regular monitoring is unknown.

Method

Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with clinicians (n = 10), administrative staff (n = 8) and families (n = 15) who participated in a feasibility study of an electronic session-by-session outcome monitoring tool, (SxS), which is based on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). This study took place in three CAMHS c

SUBMITTER: Hall CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4021403 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature