Professionals' perspectives on factors within primary mental health services that can affect pathways to involuntary psychiatric admissions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reducing involuntary psychiatric admissions has been on the international human rights and health policy agenda for years. Despite the last decades' shift towards more services for adults with severe mental illness being provided in the community, most research on how to reduce involuntary admissions has been conducted at secondary health care level. Research from the primary health care level is largely lacking. The aim of this study was to explore mental health professionals' experiences with factors within primary mental health services that might increase the risk of involuntary psychiatric admissions of adults, and their views on how such admissions might be avoided.

Methods

Qualitative semi-structured interviews with thirty-two mental health professionals fr

SUBMITTER: Wormdahl I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7678112 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature