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Carers’ and Users’ Expectations of Services - User version (CUES-U): a new instrument to measure the experience of users of mental health services

Carers’ and Users’ Expectations of Services - User version (CUES-U): a new instrument to measure the experience of users of mental health services
Carers’ and Users’ Expectations of Services - User version (CUES-U): a new instrument to measure the experience of users of mental health services
Background: No existing instrument measures all or even most of the issues considered important by users of mental health services.
Aims: To develop and test a self-assessment instrument to enable users of mental health services to rate their experience across the range of domains that they consider to be important.
Method: Relevant domains were identified and a new instrument was drafted and field tested to examine its psychometric properties.
Results: The 17-item, self-rated Carers' and Users' Expectations of Services — User version (CUES—U) appears acceptable to most service users. Its items have reasonable test—retest reliability and a ‘total CUES—U score’ correlates significantly with a total score of the Health of the Nations Outcome Scales (Spearman's =0.42; P < 0.01).
Conclusions: The development and testing of CUES—U suggest that it might be feasible to apply a self-rated measure of the expectations and experience of users of mental health services.
carers' and users' expectations, services, CUES-U, measure experience, mental health users
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Lelliott, P., Beevor, A., Hogman, G., Hyslop, H., Lathlean, J. and Ward, M. (2001) Carers’ and Users’ Expectations of Services - User version (CUES-U): a new instrument to measure the experience of users of mental health services. British Journal of Psychiatry, 179 (1), 67-72. (doi:10.1192/bjp.179.1.67).

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Abstract

Background: No existing instrument measures all or even most of the issues considered important by users of mental health services.
Aims: To develop and test a self-assessment instrument to enable users of mental health services to rate their experience across the range of domains that they consider to be important.
Method: Relevant domains were identified and a new instrument was drafted and field tested to examine its psychometric properties.
Results: The 17-item, self-rated Carers' and Users' Expectations of Services — User version (CUES—U) appears acceptable to most service users. Its items have reasonable test—retest reliability and a ‘total CUES—U score’ correlates significantly with a total score of the Health of the Nations Outcome Scales (Spearman's =0.42; P < 0.01).
Conclusions: The development and testing of CUES—U suggest that it might be feasible to apply a self-rated measure of the expectations and experience of users of mental health services.

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Published date: July 2001
Keywords: carers' and users' expectations, services, CUES-U, measure experience, mental health users

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Local EPrints ID: 19236
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/19236
ISSN: 0007-1250
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Date deposited: 31 Jan 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 06:13

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Author: P. Lelliott
Author: A. Beevor
Author: G. Hogman
Author: H. Hyslop
Author: J. Lathlean
Author: M. Ward

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