Eager, S; Killaspy, H; C, J; Mezey, G; McPherson, P; Downey, M; Thompson, G; Lloyd-Evans, B
(2024)
A Web-Based Tool to Assess Social Inclusion and Support Care Planning in Mental Health Supported Accommodation: Development and Preliminary Test Study.
Interact J Med Res, 13.
e45987.
ISSN 1929-073X
https://doi.org/10.2196/45987
SGUL Authors: Mezey, Gillian Clare
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Individuals with severe mental illness living in supported accommodation are often socially excluded. Social inclusion is an important aspect of recovery-based practice and quality of life. The Social Inclusion Questionnaire User Experience (SInQUE) is a measure of social inclusion that has been validated for use with people with mental health problems. Previous research has suggested that the SInQUE could also help support care planning focused on enabling social inclusion in routine mental health practice. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to develop a web-based version of the SInQUE for use in mental health supported accommodation services, examine its acceptability and perceived usefulness as a tool to support care planning with service users, determine the extent of uptake of the tool in supported accommodation settings, and develop a program theory and logic model for the online SInQUE. METHODS: This study involved a laboratory-testing stage to assess the acceptability of the SInQUE tool through "think-aloud" testing with 6 supported accommodation staff members and a field-testing stage to assess the acceptability, utility, and use of the SInQUE tool over a 5-month period. An implementation strategy was used in 1 London borough to encourage the use of the SInQUE. Qualitative interviews with 12 service users and 12 staff members who used the tool were conducted and analyzed using thematic analysis. The use of the SInQUE was compared with that in 2 other local authority areas, 1 urban and 1 rural, where the tool was made available for use but no implementation strategy was used. RESULTS: Overall, 17 staff members used the SInQUE with 28 different service users during the implementation period (approximately 10% of all service users living in supported accommodation in the study area). The staff and service users interviewed felt that the SInQUE was collaborative, comprehensive, user-friendly, and relevant. Although some staff were concerned that particular questions might be too personal, service users did not echo this view. Participants generally felt that the SInQUE could help identify individuals' priorities regarding different aspects of social inclusion by prompting in-depth conversations and tailoring specific support to address service users' inclusion goals. Some interviewees also suggested that the tool could highlight areas of unmet or unmeetable needs across the borough that could feed into service planning. The SInQUE was not used in the comparison areas that had no implementation strategy. CONCLUSIONS: The online SInQUE is an acceptable and potentially useful tool that can be recommended to assess and support care planning to enable social inclusion of people living in mental health supported accommodation services. Despite this, uptake rates were modest during the study period. A concerted implementation strategy is key to embedding its use in usual care, including proactive endorsement by senior leaders and service managers.
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Additional Information: | ©Sharon Eager, Helen Killaspy, Joanna C, Gillian Mezey, Peter McPherson, Megan Downey, Georgina Thompson, Brynmor Lloyd-Evans. Originally published in the Interactive Journal of Medical Research (https://www.i-jmr.org/), 13.03.2024. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Interactive Journal of Medical Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://www.i-jmr.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. | ||||||
Keywords: | care planning, digital health, mental health, social inclusion, supported accommodation, care planning, digital health, mental health, social inclusion, supported accommodation, 1103 Clinical Sciences | ||||||
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: | Academic Structure > Population Health Research Institute (INPH) | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Interact J Med Res | ||||||
ISSN: | 1929-073X | ||||||
Language: | eng | ||||||
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Publisher License: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
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PubMed ID: | 38477978 | ||||||
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URI: | https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/116322 | ||||||
Publisher's version: | https://doi.org/10.2196/45987 |
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