TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Aged
KW - Attitude of Health Personnel
KW - Child
KW - Child, Preschool
KW - Continuity of Patient Care/organization & administration
KW - Cooperative Behavior
KW - Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
KW - Health Care Surveys
KW - Health Policy
KW - Humans
KW - Infant
KW - Infant, Newborn
KW - Interinstitutional Relations
KW - Mental Disorders/prevention & control
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Operations Research
KW - Patient-Centered Care/organization & administration
KW - Primary Prevention/organization & administration
KW - Principal Component Analysis
KW - Private Sector
KW - Professional Role
KW - Public Sector
KW - Qualitative Research
KW - Social Work, Psychiatric/organization & administration
KW - Sociology, Medical
KW - Victoria
KW - Young Adult
AU - P. Mitchell
A1 - 
AB - Changes in patterns of delivery of mental health care over several decades are putting pressure on primary health and social care services to increase their involvement. Mental health policy in countries like the UK, Australia and New Zealand recognises the need for these services to make a greater contribution and calls for increased intersectoral collaboration. In Australia, most investment to date has focused on the development and integration of specialist mental health services and primary medical care, and evaluation research suggests some progress. Substantial inadequacies remain, however, in the comprehensiveness and continuity of care received by people affected by mental health problems, particularly in relation to social and psychosocial interventions. Very little research has examined the nature of the roles that non-medical primary health and social care services actually or potentially play in mental health care. Lack of information about these roles could have inhibited development of service improvement initiatives targeting these services. The present paper reports the results of an exploratory study that examined the mental health care roles of 41 diverse non-medical primary health and social care services in the state of Victoria, Australia. Data were collected in 2004 using a purposive sampling strategy. A novel method of surveying providers was employed whereby respondents within each agency worked as a group to complete a structured survey that collected quantitative and qualitative data simultaneously. This paper reports results of quantitative analyses including a tentative principal components analysis that examined the structure of roles. Non-medical primary health and social care services are currently performing a wide variety of mental health care roles and they aspire to increase their involvement in this work. However, these providers do not favour approaches involving selective targeting of clients with mental disorders.
BT - Health & social care in the community
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 1
CY - England
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2008.00800.x
IS - 1
JF - Health & social care in the community
N2 - Changes in patterns of delivery of mental health care over several decades are putting pressure on primary health and social care services to increase their involvement. Mental health policy in countries like the UK, Australia and New Zealand recognises the need for these services to make a greater contribution and calls for increased intersectoral collaboration. In Australia, most investment to date has focused on the development and integration of specialist mental health services and primary medical care, and evaluation research suggests some progress. Substantial inadequacies remain, however, in the comprehensiveness and continuity of care received by people affected by mental health problems, particularly in relation to social and psychosocial interventions. Very little research has examined the nature of the roles that non-medical primary health and social care services actually or potentially play in mental health care. Lack of information about these roles could have inhibited development of service improvement initiatives targeting these services. The present paper reports the results of an exploratory study that examined the mental health care roles of 41 diverse non-medical primary health and social care services in the state of Victoria, Australia. Data were collected in 2004 using a purposive sampling strategy. A novel method of surveying providers was employed whereby respondents within each agency worked as a group to complete a structured survey that collected quantitative and qualitative data simultaneously. This paper reports results of quantitative analyses including a tentative principal components analysis that examined the structure of roles. Non-medical primary health and social care services are currently performing a wide variety of mental health care roles and they aspire to increase their involvement in this work. However, these providers do not favour approaches involving selective targeting of clients with mental disorders.
PP - England
PY - 2009
SN - 1365-2524; 0966-0410
SP - 71
EP - 82
EP - 
T1 - Mental health care roles of non-medical primary health and social care services
T2 - Health & social care in the community
TI - Mental health care roles of non-medical primary health and social care services
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 18700871
U3 - 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2008.00800.x
VL - 17
VO - 1365-2524; 0966-0410
Y1 - 2009
ER -