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A crisis resolution and home treatment team in Norway: a longitudinal survey study Part 2. Provision of professional services

BACKGROUND: Crisis resolution and home treatment (CRHT) is an emerging mode of delivering acute mental health care in the community. There is a paucity of knowledge regarding the workings of CRHT in the literature. This is the second paper in a series of three from the longitudinal survey of patient...

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Autores principales: Karlsson, Bengt, Borg, Marit, Biong, Stian, Ness, Ottar, Kim, Hesook Suzie
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3487748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22958549
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-6-14
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author Karlsson, Bengt
Borg, Marit
Biong, Stian
Ness, Ottar
Kim, Hesook Suzie
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Biong, Stian
Ness, Ottar
Kim, Hesook Suzie
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description BACKGROUND: Crisis resolution and home treatment (CRHT) is an emerging mode of delivering acute mental health care in the community. There is a paucity of knowledge regarding the workings of CRHT in the literature. This is the second paper in a series of three from the longitudinal survey of patients of a CRHT team in Norway, which was aimed at describing the characteristics of patients served, professional services provided, and clinical outcomes. This report focuses on the provision of professional services by the team. METHODS: The project was a descriptive, quantitative study based on the patient data from a longitudinal survey of one CRHT team in Norway. The participants of the survey, a total of 363 patients, constituted the complete registration of patients of this team in the period from February 2008 to July 2009. RESULTS: The average length of service by the team was about 15 days, and those with depression as the major symptom had the longest mean length of stay on the team. The team was engaged in providing a variety of services including individual treatments involving multiple professionals, group treatment meetings, and coordination activities involving external service sectors. While the type of professionals providing individual treatment was not associated with the severity level of clinical problems, those receiving various group treatment meetings had more serious level of clinical symptoms than those not receiving group treatment meetings. In addition coordination activities involving healthcare professionals and social services in the community were in line with the patients' clinical and social needs. The results of the study show that the team functioned effectively in addressing the general guidelines for the functioning of CRHT teams.
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spelling pubmed-34877482012-11-03 A crisis resolution and home treatment team in Norway: a longitudinal survey study Part 2. Provision of professional services Karlsson, Bengt Borg, Marit Biong, Stian Ness, Ottar Kim, Hesook Suzie Int J Ment Health Syst Research BACKGROUND: Crisis resolution and home treatment (CRHT) is an emerging mode of delivering acute mental health care in the community. There is a paucity of knowledge regarding the workings of CRHT in the literature. This is the second paper in a series of three from the longitudinal survey of patients of a CRHT team in Norway, which was aimed at describing the characteristics of patients served, professional services provided, and clinical outcomes. This report focuses on the provision of professional services by the team. METHODS: The project was a descriptive, quantitative study based on the patient data from a longitudinal survey of one CRHT team in Norway. The participants of the survey, a total of 363 patients, constituted the complete registration of patients of this team in the period from February 2008 to July 2009. RESULTS: The average length of service by the team was about 15 days, and those with depression as the major symptom had the longest mean length of stay on the team. The team was engaged in providing a variety of services including individual treatments involving multiple professionals, group treatment meetings, and coordination activities involving external service sectors. While the type of professionals providing individual treatment was not associated with the severity level of clinical problems, those receiving various group treatment meetings had more serious level of clinical symptoms than those not receiving group treatment meetings. In addition coordination activities involving healthcare professionals and social services in the community were in line with the patients' clinical and social needs. The results of the study show that the team functioned effectively in addressing the general guidelines for the functioning of CRHT teams. BioMed Central 2012-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3487748/ /pubmed/22958549 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-6-14 Text en Copyright ©2012 Karlsson et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ness, Ottar
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A crisis resolution and home treatment team in Norway: a longitudinal survey study Part 2. Provision of professional services
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title_short A crisis resolution and home treatment team in Norway: a longitudinal survey study Part 2. Provision of professional services
title_sort crisis resolution and home treatment team in norway: a longitudinal survey study part 2. provision of professional services
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3487748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22958549
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-6-14
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