Individual unmet needs for care: Are they sensitive as outcome criterion for the effectiveness of mental health services interventions?

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 317-324

  Wiersma, Durk ^a   van den Brink, Rob ^a   Wolters, Kerstin ^a   McCabe, Rosemarie ^b   Bullenkamp, Jens ^c   Hansson, Lars ^d   Lauber, Christoph ^e   Martinez Leal, Rafael ^g   Rössler, Wulf ^f   Salize, Hans ^c   Björkman, Tommy ^d   Torres Gonzales, Francisco ^g   Wright, Donna J ^b   Priebe, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UK   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Community mental health care; Need for care; Routine outcome assessment; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMBERWELL ASSESSMENT OF NEEDS SHORT APPRAISAL SCHEDULE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSIS; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 63949088411     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-008-0432-z     Document Type: Article

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