Task Force Health Promotion in Mental Health Settings - Report 2013 Barcelona: period 2013/2014

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Network activities:

cooperation with a new network of mental health settings in Norway

negotiations with Lutindi Mental Health Hospital in Tansania Started January 2013

finishing the consultation process for guidelines in psychosocial therapies for patients with severe mental disorders Published January 2013

Preconference: Doing it differently. Gothenburg Wednesday 22nd 2013

consultation of psychiatric hospitals and supporting the reform of mental health care services in Oblast Donezk/Ukraine Report about Part I January 2014

Publication: Mental Health Promotion. In Rössler W. (2014) Handbook of Prevention. Karger Freiburg

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Research activities

diet managment for patients with severe mental disorders: Intervention finished October 2012

the efficacy of psychoeducative family intervention for schizophrenic out-patients:finished 2013

the design and deployment of a balanced score card for health promotion of employees in mental health settings: finished June 2014

the implementation and evaluation of home-treatment and early crisis intervention for patients with severe mental disorders commissioned by an insurance company: finished April 2014

the evaluation of a self- assessment- tool for mental health promotion in psychiatric settings: finished 2014. Presentation at this conference

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the evaluation of a self- assessment- tool for mental health promotion in psychiatric settings

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Main aims: formulate guidelines for health promotion in mental health services improve the quality of health promotion activities in mental health facilities development of a manual and a self-assessment tool, that will enable health professionals to assess health promotion activities in mental health settings

Specific Aims: test the adequacy of the self-assessment tool test the standards and measurable elements qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate of relevance and applicability of standards and measurable elements

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Results: General assessment of the Tool

77.5% of participants found that the Self-Assessment Tool included all aspects that are significant for health promotion in mental health care.

82.5 % of participants gained new insights about the strengths and weaknesses of health promotion activities.

87.5% of participants would recommend a broad implementation of the Self-Assessment Tool in mental health services.

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Renata Gil Jana Nowinski

Vera Chaduneli

Walter Gassmann

Hartmut Berger

research team

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Results of the task force work (1998 -2014)

the task force developed and evaluated tools for mental health promotion:

1. multifamilyintervention for patients with severe mental diseases

2. diet managment for patients with SMI

3. home-treatment and early crisis intervention for patients with SMI

4. balanced score card for health promotion of employees in mental health settings

5. self- assessment- tool for mental health promotion in mental health settings

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Future Aims

manual of health promotion in mental health settings containing:

1. models of good practice collected in the workshops and by own experience through the described studies

2. instruments of managing health promotion in mental health settings such as the self assessment tool for health promoting strategies , the BSC for health promotion and the multifamilyintervention for patients with schizophrenic disorders

How to do

establishing a working group collecting models of good practice in mental health promotion and publishing it in a data base and a handbook

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