Self-stigma and empowerment in combined-CMHA and consumer-run services: two controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Self-help agencies (SHAs) are consumer-operated service organizations managed as participatory democracies involving members in all management tasks. Hierarchically organized board- and staff-run consumer-operated service programs (BSR-COSPs) are consumer managed, but they afford members less decision-making power. This study considered the relative effectiveness of SHAs and BSR-COSPs working jointly with community mental health agencies (CMHAs) and the role of organizational empowerment in reducing self-stigma.

Methods

Clients seeking CMHA services were assigned in separate randomized controlled trials to a trial of combined SHA and CMHA services versus regular CMHA services (N=505) or to a trial of combined BSR-COSP and CMHA services versus regular CMHA services

SUBMITTER: Segal SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7100964 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature