Family-driven collaboration is fundamental to developing a new model of health care
and eliminating fragmented services in mental health. The province of Québec (Canada)
recently undertook major transformations of its mental health care system. These transformations
represent an opportunity to improve collaboration between families and health care
practitioners and to understand which factors facilitate this collaboration. This
article describes how families and decision makers perceive collaboration in the context
of a major transformation of mental health services and identifies the factors that
facilitate and hinder family collaboration.
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The authors would like to thank the Canadian Institute of Health Research CIHR and Fonds de la Recherche en santé au Québec FRSQ for providing financial support for this study.
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