Mental well-being: an important outcome for mental health services?
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Whether mental well-being has prognostic significance or other utility in this context is discussed, as well as how to measure it.Abstract:
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 contextread more
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