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NCI Data Brief: Factors Influencing Access to Health Care
"This is the second in a series of data briefs highlighting interesting trends in the Consumer Survey data collected as part of the National Core Indicators (www.hsri.org/nci). These briefs showcase provocative and/or unexpected findings. We leave the conclusions regarding what these data suggest to policy makers and stakeholders and introduce these observations in order to stimulate discussion." … Read More
Date: 2/2005
Author(s): NCI
Schizophrenia and Suicide: A Public Health Problem
Recognizing that suicide is a multidimensional problem, SAMSHA, and other groups have funded interventions tailored to different populations. This article looks at the percentages of suicides that can be attributed to serious mental illness, using schizophrenia as an example. It also details a method that can be used to correlate state and mental health agency data, attributed to the Technical Evaluation Center, HSRI. … Read More
Date: 10/2005
Author(s): The Evaluation Center at HSRI
Measuring the Promise: A Compendium of Recovery Measures Volume II
Measuring the Promise: A Compendium of Recovery Measures, Volume II has three specific aims: 1. To provide the adult mental health field with research-and evaluation-based perspectives on the nature of recovery. 2. To provide a resource of current recovery and recovery-related instruments for adult mental health system stakeholders to use in research and evaluation particularly towards the end of identifying evidence-based practices. 3. To provide stakeholders with a detailed … Read More
Date: 09/2005
Author(s): Theodora Campbell-Orde, M.P.A., Judi Chamberlin, Jenneth Carpenter, M.S.W., H. Stephen Leff, Ph.D.
NC Analysis of Constraints to Implementing Consumer-Direction in DHHS
The NC Department of Health and Human Services contracted with HSRI to examine regulatory and statutory constraints to consumer direction across populations including people with developmental and physical disability, mental illness, and seniors. The final report includes specific recommendations for policy changes including legislation to reinforce the importance and value and consumer direction in all long term care programs in the state. … Read More
Date: 08/2005
Author(s): Valerie Bradley, HSRI; Elizabeth Pell, HSRI; Gary Smith, HSRI; Steve Day, Technical Assistance Collabortive, Inc; Kathryn Moss, University of North Carolina; Mary Fraser, University of North Carolina; Jean Tuller, Oregon Technical Assistance Corporation.
Consumer Research Activities in the States
This report provides an overview of consumer involvement in mental health research and evaluation, aiming to inform technical assistance centers, such as the Evaluation Center through its Consumer Evaluator Network, where to direct resources in regards to consumer research and evaluation activities. The report discusses 1) consumers’ involvement in evaluation and research, 2) the areas in which consumers’ desire technical assistance in these fields, and 3) consumers’ familiarity with a consumer grant program that funds … Read More
Date: 06/2005
Author(s): Dr. Paul Weaver, Kentucky Center for Mental Health Studies