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Does standardized needs assessment improve the outcome of psychiatric day hospital care for older people?
— a randomized controlled trial | | Author(s) | O A Ashaye, G Livingston, M W Orrell |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 7, no 3, May 2003 |
| Pages | pp 195-199 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Psychogeriatric patients ; Needs indicators ; Psychiatric treatment ; Day hospitals ; Clinical surveys. |
| Annotation | There is little evidence to indicate how far psychiatric day hospitals for older people can identify and resolve the needs of older people who attend. The current practice of Care Programme Approach (CPA) in which multidisciplinary team members, patients and their families meet, may provide a suitable forum for needs to be discussed, and interventions to be planned and implemented. Over a 1 year period, 112 new day hospital patients were randomly allocated to an experimental group in which the Camberwell Assessment of Need for the Elderly (CANE) assessment reports were fed back to day hospital staff; routine practice was maintained for the control group. Similar follow-up assessments were performed after 3 months in the day hospital or at the time of discharge. At follow-up, both groups had more than 60% of their initial unmet needs being met adequately. In both groups, the Health of the Nation Outcomes Scales 65+ scores and number of unmet needs were reducing, indicating an improvement for both groups. Day hospitals for older people with mental health problems appear effective in identifying and meeting needs. In terms of outcome, the feedback from CANE made no difference. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030806214 A |
| Classmark | LF:E: IK:3RI: LP: LDD: 3G |
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