Depression is a clinical psychological disorder which effects an individual both mentally and physically. According to the DSM V (American Psychiatric association, 2013) it states that out of nine symptoms, at least five of these are present every day. This includes depressed mood, decreased interest in previous enjoyable activities, fatigue and more.
A key study on patient satisfaction with psychiatric services was conducted by (Prabhakar C. et al, 2012) to measure satisfaction of psychiatric out-patients of a mental health institute named Cuttack in India. They assessed patients using a cross sectional study; the criteria being the age of 18-60 years of whom had received at least six months treatment. The sample was randomly selected, 60 …show more content…
27 quality indicators were studied about the treatment of depression using self-report data. The ‘Dialogue’ project was used to obtain this data from using three interconnected components.. However the main one found that just 52% of the sample actually received at least one minimally adequate treatment for depression. This shows that only 1 in 2 individuals are getting the correct care. Additionally it was found that interventions needed to be used for targeted populations such younger adults and elderly specifically when looking further into the individuals demographics. Furthermore access to treatment such as psychotherapy and family physicians should be considered to improve as it was found that 56.2% had any form of psychotherapy or counselling. This study suggests that a large proportion of the population are not in fact even receiving the adequate care they need based on evidence recommendations and this needs to …show more content…
The participants were recruited through the clinicians of primary care service for young people in Melbourne. 26 took part in the study each took part in semi structured interviews which were audio recorded. The data was collected by researchers who were not employees and then transcribed and analysed using the IPA approach in the data analysis, then using codes grouped upon themes. There was three overlapping themes when looking at participant satisfaction; the first being clinicians being youth friendly, the next clinicians adopting a broad based approach to care. Meaning psychosocial therapies and the use of antidepressant medication was favoured and finally the last theme was care facilitating recover which is the two above approaches enhances satisfaction and recovery. These results support that the quality of care within mental health illness being satisfactory. As it suggests that the care given helps in recovery of patients however this study was conducted within a different country therefore the health care is very different within each country. Consequently the quality of care may
A key study on patient satisfaction with psychiatric services was conducted by (Prabhakar C. et al, 2012) to measure satisfaction of psychiatric out-patients of a mental health institute named Cuttack in India. They assessed patients using a cross sectional study; the criteria being the age of 18-60 years of whom had received at least six months treatment. The sample was randomly selected, 60 …show more content…
27 quality indicators were studied about the treatment of depression using self-report data. The ‘Dialogue’ project was used to obtain this data from using three interconnected components.. However the main one found that just 52% of the sample actually received at least one minimally adequate treatment for depression. This shows that only 1 in 2 individuals are getting the correct care. Additionally it was found that interventions needed to be used for targeted populations such younger adults and elderly specifically when looking further into the individuals demographics. Furthermore access to treatment such as psychotherapy and family physicians should be considered to improve as it was found that 56.2% had any form of psychotherapy or counselling. This study suggests that a large proportion of the population are not in fact even receiving the adequate care they need based on evidence recommendations and this needs to …show more content…
The participants were recruited through the clinicians of primary care service for young people in Melbourne. 26 took part in the study each took part in semi structured interviews which were audio recorded. The data was collected by researchers who were not employees and then transcribed and analysed using the IPA approach in the data analysis, then using codes grouped upon themes. There was three overlapping themes when looking at participant satisfaction; the first being clinicians being youth friendly, the next clinicians adopting a broad based approach to care. Meaning psychosocial therapies and the use of antidepressant medication was favoured and finally the last theme was care facilitating recover which is the two above approaches enhances satisfaction and recovery. These results support that the quality of care within mental health illness being satisfactory. As it suggests that the care given helps in recovery of patients however this study was conducted within a different country therefore the health care is very different within each country. Consequently the quality of care may