Measuring Experience of Inpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)

Jacob Clark and Euan MacLennan
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Jacob Clark: Whittington NHS Trust, London N10 3HU, UK
Euan MacLennan: Whittington NHS Trust, London N10 3HU, UK

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 11, 1-10

Abstract: There has been an important drive towards embedding feedback and experience data to improve health services in the UK. The current paper examines the gap in evidence and the lack of adequate measures of inpatient CAMHS experience. It presents the context of inpatient CAMHS and what factors influence care experience, before exploring the current practices for measuring experience and the implications for young people and families. The paper explores the dialectic that—given the nature of the work balancing risk and restrictions in inpatient CAMHS—it is essential that patient voice is at the centre of quality measures, and achieving this comes with a great complexity. The health needs of adolescents are unique, as are the interventions of psychiatric inpatient care, but current measures in routine use are often not developmentally adapted and lack validity. This paper looks to interdisciplinary theory and practice to consider what the application of a valid and meaningful measure of inpatient CAMHS experience might incorporate. It makes the case that the development of a measure of relational and moral experience of inpatient CAMHS would have significant implications for the quality of care and safety of adolescents during a period of acute crisis.

Keywords: experience; feedback; CAMHS; inpatient; measure; quality; PREMS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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