<p>Background: During the last decades patient satisfaction has become an important measurement of quality in psychiatric care. However the patients are seldom asked to evaluate the treatments.</p><p>Objectives: The aim is to determine which factors the outpatients regard as beneficial in their psychiatric treatment. The purpose is explorative. During the study another purpose developed; to present research on the importance of the relationship between the caretaker and the caregiver for the outcome.</p><p>Method: 30 persons were interviewed about what they found helpful in psychiatric treatment. The interviews were open using Grounded Theory as methodological input.</p><p>Result: The most prominent topic was the quality of the relationship between the caregiver and the caretaker. The characteristics of a helping relationship seem to be when the patient:</p><p>- is being listened to and understood by a caregiver who is interested and concerned.</p><p>- is not only seen as a caretaker with problems but also as a complete person, someone more than an equation of symptoms, diagnoses and shortcomings</p><p>- is seen as a person worth listening to with unique knowledge which matters to the caregiver</p><p>- is seen as a unique person not possible to minimize to just another case</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:su-7358 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Denhov, Anne |
| Publisher | Stockholm University, Department of Social Work |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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