Consumers' goals in psychiatric rehabilitation and their concordance with existing services.
The objective of this study was to describe the rehabilitation goals of 165 consumers with serious mental illness who were living in the community and to assess the level of concordance between the consumers' perceived importance of their goals and the services they received to help them meet those goals. A structured interview was used to facilitate the expression of rehabilitation goals by consumers in the psychiatric rehabilitation program of a hospital in Montreal, Canada. The most frequently mentioned rehabilitation goals pertained to improving consumers' financial situation, physical health, cognitive capacities, and symptoms. Among these goals, the level of concordance was highest for services addressing symptoms and lowest for religious or spiritual goals.
Lecomte
Tania
T
University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. lecomte@interchange.ubc.ca
Wallace
Charles J
CJ
Perreault
Michel
M
Caron
Jean
J
D000328:Adult; D002170:Canada; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006304:Health Status; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D026443:Spiritual Therapies