A Delphi study to explore clinician and lived experience perspectives on setting priorities in eating disorder services.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to scarce resources and high demand, priority setting in mental health services is necessary and inevitable. To date, no study has examined priority setting in eating disorder (ED) services specifically. Here, we evaluate the level of consensus and perceived relative importance of factors used to determine patient prioritisation in ED services, amongst clinicians and individuals with lived experience (LE) of an ED.

Methods

A three round Delphi study and a ranking task were used to determine the level of consensus and importance. Consensus was defined as > 80% agreement or disagreement. Items that reached consensus for agreement were ranked in order of importance from most to least important. Participants were 50 ED clinicians and 60 LE individuals. Participant

SUBMITTER: Richards KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9206284 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature