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Principles and practice of measuring needs in the long-term mentally ill: the MRC Needs for Care Assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

C. R. Brewin ,
J. K. Wing ,
S. P. Mangen ,
T. S. Brugha  and
B. MacCarthy
C. R. Brewin*
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
J. K. Wing
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
S. P. Mangen
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
T. S. Brugha
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
B. MacCarthy
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr C R Brewin. MRC Social Psychiatry Unit. Institute of Psychiatry. Dc Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF.
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Synopsis

We report the development of a new procedure for assessing the needs for treatment and care of the long-term mentally ill. This procedure covers 21 areas of clinical and social functioning, and in each of these specifies appropriate interventions. Decision rules are described which permit problems in functioning to be primarily classified as a met need, an unmet need, or as involving no need, and which allow the identification of various secondary needs. We report preliminary data on the reliability and validity of this procedure and discuss its potential applications in the care of the long-term mentally ill.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , November 1987 , pp. 971 - 981
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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