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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Testing a model of facilitated reflection on network feedback: a mixed method study on integration of rural mental health care services for older people |
Author: | Fuller, J. Oster, C. Muir-Cochrane, E. Dawson, S. Lawn, S. Henderson, J. O'Kane, D. Gerace, A. McPhail, R. Sparkes, D. Fuller, M. Reed, R.L. |
Citation: | BMJ Open, 2015; 5(11):e008593-1-e008593-11 |
Publisher: | BMJ Journals |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
ISSN: | 2044-6055 2044-6055 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jeffrey Fuller, Candice Oster, Eimear Muir Cochrane, Suzanne Dawson, Sharon Lawn, Julie Henderson, Deb O, Kane, Adam Gerace, Ruth McPhail, Deb Sparkes, Michelle Fuller, Richard L Reed |
Abstract: | Objective: To test a management model of facilitated reflection on network feedback as a means to engage services in problem solving the delivery of integrated primary mental healthcare to older people. Design: Participatory mixed methods case study evaluating the impact of a network management model using organisational network feedback (through social network analysis, key informant interviews and policy review). Intervention: A model of facilitated network reflection using network theory and methods. Setting: A rural community in South Australia. Participants: 32 staff from 24 services and 12 senior service managers from mental health, primary care and social care services. Results: Health and social care organisations identified that they operated in clustered self-managed networks within sectors, with no overarching purposive older people’s mental healthcare network. The model of facilitated reflection revealed service goal and role conflicts. These discussions helped local services to identify as a network, and begin the problem-solving communication and referral links. A Governance Group assisted this process. Barriers to integrated servicing through a network included service funding tied to performance of direct care tasks and the lack of a clear lead network administration organisation. Conclusions: A model of facilitated reflection helped organisations to identify as a network, but revealed sensitivity about organisational roles and goals, which demonstrated that conflict should be expected. Networked servicing needed a neutral network administration organisation with cross-sectoral credibility, a mandate and the resources to monitor the network, to deal with conflict, negotiate commitment among the service managers, and provide opportunities for different sectors to meet and problem solve. This requires consistency and sustained intersectoral policies that include strategies and funding to facilitate and maintain health and social care networks in rural communities. |
Keywords: | Humans Problem Solving Community Mental Health Services Models, Organizational Health Policy Community Networks Aged Rural Population Rural Health Services Referral and Consultation Primary Health Care Delivery of Health Care South Australia |
Rights: | This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work noncommercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
DOI: | 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008593 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008593 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Psychology publications |
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