Carr, Sarah;
Hudson, Georgie;
Amson, Noa;
Hisham, Idura N;
Coldham, Tina;
Gould, Dorothy;
Hodges, Kathryn;
(2022)
Service users’ experiences of social and psychological avoidable harm in mental health social care in England: Findings of a scoping review.
The British Journal of Social Work
, 53
(3)
pp. 1303-1324.
10.1093/bjsw/bcac209.
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Abstract
Avoidable harm—that is, harm to service users caused by unsafe or improper interventions, practices or services and which could have been mitigated or prevented—is embedded in social care legislation and inspections. However, the concept of avoidable harm has largely been defined by policymakers, academics, practitioners, regulators and services, with little known about service users’ experiences of avoidable harm in practice. This survivor-controlled review maps and synthesises peer-reviewed literature on service users experience of social and psychological avoidable harm in mental health social care (MHSC) in England. The review was guided by an Advisory Group of practitioners and service users. Six databases were systematically searched between January 2008 and June 2020 to identify relevant literature. Following de-duplication, 3,529 records were screened using inclusion and exclusion criteria. This led to full-text screening of eighty-four records and a final corpus of twenty-two papers. Following data extraction, thematic analysis was used to synthesise data. Six key themes were identified relating to relationships and communication, information, involvement and decision-making, poor support, fragmented systems and power-over and discriminatory cultures. Impacts on MHSC service users included stress, distress, disempowerment and deterioration in mental health. We discuss our findings and indicate future research priorities.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Service users’ experiences of social and psychological avoidable harm in mental health social care in England: Findings of a scoping review |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/bjsw/bcac209 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac209 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Social Work, co-production, mental health, patient and public involvement, safeguarding, scoping review, service users, INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, PERSONAL BUDGETS, WORK, PERSPECTIVES, OUTCOMES |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10179974 |
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