Experience and meaning of user involvement: Some explorations from a community mental health project

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 136-143

  Truman, Carole ^a   Raine, Pamela ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mental health; Organisational context; Participatory research; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DECISION MAKING; FITNESS CENTERS; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0036559299     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2524.2002.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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