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Providing physical health care for people accessing mental health services: Clinicians' perceptions of their role.
- Source :
- International Journal of Mental Health Nursing; Feb2019, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p256-267, 12p, 5 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- The prevalence of health risk behaviours and associated poor physical health is high in people with severe mental illness. Mental health service guidelines and policies stipulate that mental health services should address physical health of people who access services. This study reports results from a large, interdisciplinary, crossâsectional study exploring mental health clinicians' (n = 385) views of role legitimacy in physical health service provision. All disciplines reported that mental health clinicians have a role to play in addressing the physical health of consumers. Among mental health clinicians, psychiatrists and mental health nurses received higher endorsement than allied health clinicians in relation to the provision of physical health care, with primary care providers including general practitioners also ranking highly. As community mental health services routinely appoint allied health staff to case management roles, a challenge for services and a challenge for clinicians are to ensure that physical health and the effects of medication are monitored appropriately and systematically. Online and telephone support services received relatively lower endorsement. As the availability of nonface to face services increases, there is a need to explore their utility in this population and where appropriate promote their uptake. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANALYSIS of variance
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
DRUGS
FACTOR analysis
HEALTH behavior
HEALTH services accessibility
HEALTH status indicators
SEXUAL health
INTERDISCIPLINARY research
MEDICAL care
MEDICAL personnel
HEALTH policy
MEDICAL referrals
MENTAL health services
PATIENT compliance
GENERAL practitioners
PSYCHIATRIC nursing
PSYCHIATRISTS
PSYCHOTHERAPY patients
RISK-taking behavior
SUBSTANCE abuse
SURVEYS
T-test (Statistics)
TELEPHONES
OCCUPATIONAL roles
EFFECT sizes (Statistics)
SOCIAL services case management
CROSS-sectional method
PHYSICAL activity
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14458330
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 134639889
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12529