Psychiatry

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I think its fair to say that you were full of shit then seotonin.

I said sometimes those who want to work in user involvement have an axe to grind and are not representative of those they are apparently speaking up for.

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Aims: To examine whether the views of active members of a local user group reflect those of "ordinary" patients in contact with mental health services and to compare their views with those of other local stakeholders. Results: The views of members of the mental health user group were similar to those of the randomly selected sample of patients. All four items rated as priorities by a random sample of patients were also rated priorities by members of the group and the two items rated as low priorities by patients were the two lowest priorities of user group members. User group members tended to rate all options as being of greater priority than the random sample of patients.

Yes I do work within psychiatry, and the picture you paint is quite different from the area I work in (and no I am not in denial). Some areas do have very poor practise but we strive to be as client centred as possible and have a lot of user involvement in everything from a patients care plan to service development and governance issues.

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Service providers stated that the main obstacle to UI was that users who took part were not representative of local patients.

 

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F*ing troll. It seems fairly obvious that psychiatry should change.