Physical Healthcare for People with a Severe Mental Illness in Belgium by Long-Term Community Mental Health Outreach Teams: A Qualitative Descriptive Study on Physicians', Community Mental Health Workers' and Patients' Perspectives.
Nicolaas MartensEline De HaeckEvelyn Van De VondelMarianne DestoopKirsten CatthoorGeert DomKris Van Den BroeckPublished in: International journal of environmental research and public health (2023)
As community-based mental health services in Belgium emerged in the past decade, addressing physical health in pSMI is still challenging. Our findings suggest that there is a need for improvement in the current healthcare provision. Multidisciplinary guidelines, shared patient records, enlarging nurses' tasks, providing financial incentives and a structural integration of primary and psychiatric care were perceived as major points of improvement to the current Belgian healthcare organization.
Keyphrases
- mental health
- healthcare
- mental illness
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- palliative care
- physical activity
- prognostic factors
- primary care
- quality improvement
- case report
- early onset
- peritoneal dialysis
- public health
- clinical practice
- smoking cessation
- hepatitis c virus
- chronic pain
- hiv testing
- patient reported outcomes