Stakeholders' Perspectives on Community-Based Participatory Research to Enhance Mental Health Services
Stakeholders' Perspectives on Community-Based Participatory Research to Enhance Mental Health Services
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DOI：
10.1007/s10464-014-9677-8
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发表时间：
2014-12-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Kaufman, Joy S.
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作者：
Case, Andrew D.;Byrd, Ronald;Kaufman, Joy S.
从历史上看，心理健康服务的消费者在与他们使用的服务相关的研究和变革努力中没有得到有意义的作用。这种情况正在迅速改变，因为学者和越来越多的资助机构现在呼吁消费者更多地参与心理健康服务的研究和改进。在这些呼声中，基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)已经成为一种独特的方法，它拥有利用消费者参与精神健康服务研究和变革的独特前景。然而，很少有人讨论这种方法在成人心理健康服务中，除了传统的询问和增强手段之外所增加的价值。本文件的目的是增加对与消费者参与的CBPR相关的潜在、多层次和多方面利益的理解。这是通过展示四个利益攸关方群体的第一人称描述来实现的，这些利益攸关方群体是消费者参与的CBPR项目的一部分，该项目旨在改善当地社区精神卫生中心的服务。我们提出这些描述，希望通过说明与CBPR相关的独特结果，将激起对CBPR的兴趣，将其作为消费者参与成人心理健康服务研究和增强的载体。
Historically, consumers of mental health services have not been given meaningful roles in research and change efforts related to the services they use. This is quickly changing as scholars and a growing number of funding bodies now call for greater consumer involvement in mental health services research and improvement. Amidst these calls, community-based participatory research (CBPR) has emerged as an approach which holds unique promise for capitalizing on consumer involvement in mental health services research and change. Yet, there have been few discussions of the value added by this approach above and beyond that of traditional means of inquiry and enhancement in adult mental health services. The purpose of this paper is to add to this discussion an understanding of potential multilevel and multifaceted benefits associated with consumer-involved CBPR. This is accomplished through presenting the first-person accounts of four stakeholder groups who were part of a consumer-involved CBPR project purposed to improve the services of a local community mental health center. We present these accounts with the hope that by illustrating the unique outcomes associated with CBPR, there will be invigorated interest in CBPR as a vehicle for consumer involvement in adult mental health services research and enhancement.