Service user- and carer-reported measures of involvement in mental health care planning: methodological quality and acceptability to users.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasing service user and carer involvement in mental health care planning is a key healthcare priority but one that is difficult to achieve in practice. To better understand and measure user and carer involvement, it is crucial to have measurement questionnaires that are both psychometrically robust and acceptable to the end user.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review using the terms "care plan$," "mental health," "user perspective$," and "user participation" and their linguistic variants as search terms. Databases were searched from inception to November 2012, with an update search at the end of September 2014. We included any articles that described the development, validation or use of a user and/or carer-reported outcome measures of involvement in mental

SUBMITTER: Gibbons CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4263079 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature