Person-Centered Psychosis Care: An Educational Intervention

Schizophrenia is a major mental illness that presents in young adulthood and affects \~1% of the population. Impact on affected persons life is often major and life expectancy is reduced by \~20 years. Better and more effective care models are needed to increase health in these persons. Person-centered care have been suggested to be one way to increase efficiency in care delivery for patients with chronical and complex conditions. The impact of person-centered care on a inpatient psychosis care setting is now being tested. The purpose of this study is to test whether inpatient Person-centered psychosis care (PCPC) can 1. increase patient empowerment 2. improve patient satisfaction 3. reduce the frequency of involuntary treatments 4. reduce the duration of inpatient care and 5. reduce overall ward burden A further purpose is to qualitatively explore which components in this complex intervention are experienced as facilitators or barriers to the achievement of good care, from both patient, next-of-kin and staff perspectives. Quantitative data is collected through questionnaires from patients (measuring empowerment, care satisfaction and perceived health) before and after an educational intervention for staff, along with ward level measures such as care burden, number of involuntary treatments and length of stay on ward. Qualitative interview is used to study experiences of patients, next-of-kin and staff.