Do adults in contact with Australia's public sector mental health services get better?
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The results showed that people in contact with public sector mental health services generally do get better, although the magnitude of improvement depends on the setting and episode type.Abstract:
This paper describes the outcomes of episodes of care for adults in public sector mental health services across Australia, with a view to informing the debate on service quality. Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) change scores and effect sizes were calculated for 14,659 acute inpatient episodes and 23,692 community episodes. The results showed that people in contact with public sector mental health services generally do get better, although the magnitude of improvement depends on the setting and episode type. This confirmatory finding is particularly positive, given current community concerns about the quality and effectiveness of mental health services.read more
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Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS). Research and development.
TL;DR: The resulting 12-item HoNOS instrument is simple to use, covers clinical problems and social functioning with reasonable adequacy, has been generally acceptable to clinicians who have used it, is sensitive to change or the lack of it, and showed good reliability in independent trials.
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A review of the psychometric properties of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) family of measures
TL;DR: Collectively, the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales family of measures can assess outcomes for different groups on a range of mental health-related constructs, and can be regarded as appropriate for routinely monitoring outcomes.
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Routine outcome assessment in mental health services.
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