Mental well-being: an important outcome for mental health services?
Mental well-being is being used as an outcome measure in mental health services. The recent Chief Medical Officer's (CMO's) report raised questions about mental well-being in people with mental illness, including how to measure it. We discuss whether mental well-being has prognostic significance or other utility in this context.
Angharad de Cates, MRCPsych, Division of Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Warwick and Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry; Saverio Stranges, MD, PhD, FFPH, Division of Health Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, and Population Health Department, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg; Amy Blake, MRCPsych, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry; Scott Weich, MD, FRCPsych, Division of Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Warwick and Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry, UK A.de-Cates@warwick.ac.uk.
Angharad
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de Cates
Angharad de Cates, MRCPsych, Division of Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Warwick and Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry; Saverio Stranges, MD, PhD, FFPH, Division of Health Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, and Population Health Department, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg; Amy Blake, MRCPsych, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry; Scott Weich, MD, FRCPsych, Division of Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Warwick and Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry, UK.
Saverio
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Stranges
Angharad de Cates, MRCPsych, Division of Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Warwick and Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry; Saverio Stranges, MD, PhD, FFPH, Division of Health Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, and Population Health Department, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg; Amy Blake, MRCPsych, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry; Scott Weich, MD, FRCPsych, Division of Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Warwick and Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry, UK.
Amy
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Blake
Angharad de Cates, MRCPsych, Division of Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Warwick and Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry; Saverio Stranges, MD, PhD, FFPH, Division of Health Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, and Population Health Department, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg; Amy Blake, MRCPsych, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry; Scott Weich, MD, FRCPsych, Division of Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Warwick and Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry, UK.
Scott
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Weich
D000328:Adult; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D008603:Mental Health; D008605:Mental Health Services; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales