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Family assessment conversations as a tool to support families affected by parental mental illness: a retrospective review of electronic patient journals

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Mental Health Systems, April 2018
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Title
Family assessment conversations as a tool to support families affected by parental mental illness: a retrospective review of electronic patient journals
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International Journal of Mental Health Systems, April 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13033-018-0199-x
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Camilla Lauritzen, Anne Berit Kolmannskog, Anette Christine Iversen

Abstract

Previous research has shown a link between parental mental illness and adverse development in their offspring. In Norway, it is mandatory for health professionals to identify if patients in adult mental health services have children, and subsequently to provide support for the children. An important tool to detect if families are affected by parental mental illness and to assess if there is a need for further intervention is the Family Assessment Conversation. Family Assessment Conversations is potentially a powerful tool for communication with families affected by parental mental illness because it facilitates early identification of children at risk of various adversities due to the family situation. Additionally the tool may initiate processes that enable children and parents to cope with the situation when a parent becomes seriously ill. Little is however known about how the mental health practitioners use the family assessment form in conversations, and to what extent they record relevant information in the electronic patient journals. The main aim of the study was to provide information about the existing practice within mental health services for adults in terms of parental mental illness and family assessment conversations. The project is a retrospective journal review. The data base consists of relevant journal data from 734 patients aged 20-60 years admitted. In total, 159 recordings of family assessment conversations were discovered. The main result in this study was that many of the questions in the family assessment form lacked documented responses and assessments from the healthcare professionals. Only 17% of the participants had been assessed with the total family assessment form. Additionally, there was a lack of documentation about whether or not the children had been informed in a large proportion of the assessment forms (31%). A total of 55% say that the child has not been informed. This implies that there is still a long way to go in order to make sure that children of parents with a mental illness are given relevant information and support. The documentation and family assessment frequency is low and reflects the challenges healthcare professionals and patient experience when the child's situation becomes the topic of assessment. There is a need to further investigate the challenges of changing the mental health systems to incorporate the children and families of patients. More research should promote knowledge on what may facilitate family assessment dialogue.

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Unknown 54 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 13%
Student > Master 6 11%
Researcher 5 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 23 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 8 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 13%
Psychology 7 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 7%
Linguistics 1 2%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 25 46%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 April 2018.
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#2,830,682
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#147
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Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Mental Health Systems
#9
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