How do patients with severe mental diagnosis cope in everyday life - a qualitative study comparing patients' experiences of self-referral inpatient treatment with treatment as usual?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several hospitals in Norway provide short self-referral inpatient treatment to patients with severe mental diagnosis. No studies have compared the experiences of patients who have had the opportunity to self-refer to inpatient treatment with patients who have received treatment as usual. This qualitative study was nested within a randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of self-referral to inpatient treatment. The aim was to explore how patients with severe mental diagnosis coped four months after signing a contract for self-referral, as compared to patients receiving treatment as usual.

Methods

Data was collected using qualitative individual interviews with patients with severe mental diagnosis, conducted four months after being randomised either to a

SUBMITTER: Rise MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4138383 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature