A5035916250- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Occupational Therapy Practice and Research
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Lubricants and Their Additives
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
The University of Sydney
2017-2023
Abstract Hope is essential to mental health recovery, yet little known about how services can foster hope. This paper addresses the question: How influence sense of hope experienced by people who access their services? Sixty-one accessed a new service were interviewed experiences, including had influenced Interviews analysed using constant comparative analysis. The data revealed that increased when perceived positive changes in themselves and circumstances: developing understandings...
Recovery oriented service provisions means focusing on outcomes that are important to consumers themselves rather than clinicians or services. Partners in (PIR) is an Australia-wide initiative designed provide coordination and brokerage for individuals with severe persistent mental illness. One PIR engaged a consumer-led research team evaluate the from perspective of consumers. This study was established explore consumers' perceptions they achieved through their involvement PIR. Data were...
Learning from individuals with lived experience is considered an important element of developing recovery-oriented practice capabilities in mental health contexts. Additionally, service user involvement the education occupational therapy students a requirement accreditation standards. Despite this, many barriers to meaningful inclusion Lived Experience Educators have previously been identified.This study evaluated outcomes achieved by who were involved unit that incorporated four workshops...
Introduction Consumer-led and collaborative research is consistent with occupational therapy principles of inclusion client-centredness, increasingly valued in mental health. Our team three therapists consumers was funded to conduct a consumer-led health service evaluation. Because lack previous guide our practice, we engaged autoethnography gather information about the process research. We discovered that systematic reflective processes played critical part shaping very experiences being...
Background: Transitioning from psychiatric hospitalisation back to community presents a period of heightened suicide, homelessness, relapse, and rehospitalisation risk. The Australian state New South Wales established state-wide Peer Supported Transfer Care (Peer-STOC) initiative enhance recovery-focused supports available during this transition period. Aims: To understand the impacts outcomes Peer-STOC program on service users three stakeholder perspectives: themselves, peer worker...
To examine preferences for telehealth versus in-person services people who sought mental health support from an unfamiliar service during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify factors that influenced these preferences.Data are drawn semi-structured interviews with 45 participants (32 accessed services, 7 informal people, 6 themselves as well identifying supports). Data relating experiences of telehealth, comparisons were coded inductively analysed using qualitative content analysis.Just over...
Objective: The aim of this study was to identify aspects the consumer-provider relationship that consumers saw as important in a care coordination service model.Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted, between October 2015 and March 2016, with 20 people living severe persistent mental illness who used Sydney, Australia. Data analysed using constant comparative analysis.Results: Participants described five specific they deemed within their experience: rapport listening; an...
This paper presents a case study review of an Australian research partnership between independent mental health lived experience-led network and academic organisation established for the treatment disorders brain mind. The aim was to explore principles practical requirements needed successful that promotes inclusive practices power sharing provide framework improve operationalization future similar partnerships.
Abstract Background: The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a sudden increase in the need for mental health services and rapid escalation delivery of these via telehealth. Little is known about how people experience telehealth as part new service, where relationships with service providers have not yet been established. In this paper, we present data from qualitative evaluation relating to people’s experiences their preferences regarding future use. Methods: Data are drawn semi-structured...