A Web-Based Patient Portal for Mental Health Care: Benefits Evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Treatment for mental illness has shifted from focusing purely on treatment of symptoms to focusing on personal recovery. Patient activation is an important component of the recovery journey. Patient portals have shown promise to increase activation in primary and acute care settings, but the benefits to tertiary level mental health care remain unknown.

Objective

To conduct a benefits evaluation of a Web-based portal for patients undergoing treatment for serious or persistent mental illness in order to examine the effects on (1) patient activation, (2) recovery, (3) productivity, and (4) administrative efficiencies.

Methods

All registered inpatients and outpatients at a tertiary level mental health care facility were offered the opportunity to enroll and uti

SUBMITTER: Kipping S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5131190 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature