Highlights
- •Mental healthcare workers are willing to involve inpatients in MTMs
- •Eight out of ten mental healthcare workers feel capable to involve inpatients in MTMs
- •Nurses, pedagogues and social workers feel less competent and are therefore less willing to involve inpatients in MTMs
- •Experienced and trained mental healthcare workers tend to give more autonomy to the patient when participating in MTMs
Abstract
Aim
To explore the perception of mental healthcare workers about participation of inpatients
during multidisciplinary team meetings (MTMs) and to determine which demographic and
contextual factors are associated with this perception.
Methods
A cross-sectional multicentre study in 17 psychiatric hospitals with 701 mental healthcare
workers was performed between 29 April and 19 May 2019. For measuring the perception
of the mental healthcare workers, the Patient Participation during Multidisciplinary
Team meetings Questionnaire was used.
Results
93 % of the mental healthcare workers indicate that they are willing to allow patients
to participate in a MTM. Most mental healthcare workers prefer an active role for
the patient when participating in a MTM (93 %) and a collaborative role for the patient
when making decisions in a MTM (75 %). Level of education, discipline, experience
with patient participation in MTMs, working in a team where patient participation
is applied, and recent training on patient participation, are associated with the
mental healthcare worker's perception on patient participation in MTMs.
Conclusion
Mental healthcare workers report a great willingness to involve inpatients in MTMs.
However, social workers, nurses, and pedagogues feel less competent and are less positive
about the effects of patient participation in MTMs. Mental healthcare workers with
recent training in patient participation and experience in patient participation in
MTMs feel more competent and believe more often that the patient should fulfil a more
autonomous role when participating in a MTM. These results can be used to understand
and improve patient participation in MTMs in mental healthcare.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: August 05, 2022
Accepted:
July 31,
2022
Received in revised form:
May 19,
2022
Received:
September 8,
2021
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