Browsing USN Open Archive by Author "Rugkåsa, Jorun"
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A cross-sectional study of experienced coercion in adolescent mental health inpatients
Nyttingnes, Olav; Ruud, Torleif; Norvoll, Reidun; Rugkåsa, Jorun; Hanssen-Bauer, Ketil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Involuntary care and coercive measures are frequently present in mental healthcare for adolescents. The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent adolescents perceive or experience coercion during ... -
Associations between compulsory community treatment and continuity of care in a three year follow-up of the Oxford Community Treatment Order Trial (OCTET) cohort
Puntis, Stephen Robert; Rugkåsa, Jorun; Burns, Tom (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: Most studies investigating the effectiveness of Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) use readmission to hospital as the primary outcome. Another aim of introducing CTOs was to improve continuity of care. Our study ... -
Between No Help and Coercion: Toward Referral to Involuntary Psychiatric Admission. A Qualitative Interview Study of Stakeholders' Perspectives
Wormdahl, Irene; Husum, Tonje Lossius; Kjus, Solveig Helene; Rugkåsa, Jorun; Hatling, Trond; Rise, Marit B. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Objective: Paths toward referral to involuntary psychiatric admission mainly unfold in the contexts where people live their everyday lives. Modern health services are organized such that primary health care services are ... -
Carer involvement in compulsory out-patient psychiatric care in England
Rugkåsa, Jorun; Canvin, Krysia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: There is an expectation in current heath care policy that family carers are involved in service delivery. This is also the case with compulsory outpatient mental health care, Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) ... -
Collaborative care for mental health: a qualitative study of the experiences of patients and health professionals
Rugkåsa, Jorun; Tveit, Ole Gunnar; Berteig, Julie; Hussain, Ajmal; Ruud, Torleif (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Health policy in many countries directs treatment to the lowest effective care level and encourages collaboration between primary and specialist mental health care. A number of models for collaborative care ... -
Compulsory treatment in patients' homes in the Netherlands: What do mental health professionals think of this?
De Waardt, Waardt; Van Der Heijden, Der; Rugkåsa, Jorun; Mulder, Cornelis L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Compulsory treatment in patients’ homes (CTH) will be introduced in the new Dutch mental health legislation. The aim of this study is to identify the opinions of mental health workers in the Netherlands on ... -
Cost and quality-of-life impacts of community treatment orders (CTOs) for patients with psychosis: economic evaluation of the OCTET trial
Simon, Judit; Mayer, Susanne; Łaszewska, Agata; Rugkåsa, Jorun; Yeeles, Ksenija; Burns, Tom; Gray, Alastair (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Purpose: Current RCT and meta-analyses have not found any effect of community treatment orders (CTOs) on hospital or social outcomes. Assumed positive impacts of CTOs on quality-of-life outcomes and reduced hospital costs ... -
Dementia and patient safety in the community: a qualitative study of family carers’ protective practices and implications for services
Häikiö, Kristin; Sagbakken, Mette; Rugkåsa, Jorun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background Dementia is a cause of disability and dependency associated with high demands for health services and expected to have a significant impact on resources. Care policies worldwide increasingly rely on family ... -
Family carers’ involvement strategies in response to sub-optimal health services to older adults living with dementia – a qualitative study
Häikiö, Kristin; Sagbakken, Mette; Rugkåsa, Jorun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: While dementia policy strategies emphasize the importance of partnerships between families and formal carers to provide tailored care and effectively allocate community resources, family carers often feel left ... -
Impact of introducing capacity-based mental health legislation on the use of community treatment orders in Norway: case registry study
Høyer, Georg; Nyttingnes, Olav; Rugkåsa, Jorun; Sharashova, Ekaterina; Simonsen, Tone Breines; Høye, Anne; Riley, Henriette (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: In 2017, a capacity-based criterion was added to the Norwegian Mental Health Act, stating that those with capacity to consent to treatment cannot be subjected to involuntary care unless there is risk to themselves ... -
Is health literacy of family carers associated with carer burden, quality of life, and time spent on informal care for older persons living with dementia?
Häikiö, Kristin; Cloutier, Denise; Rugkåsa, Jorun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Introduction: Family carers are cornerstones in the care of older people living with dementia. Family carers report extensive carer burden, reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and extensive time spent on informal ... -
“It’s hard to say anything definitive about what severity really is”: lay conceptualisations of severity in a healthcare context
Stenmarck, Mille Sofie; Whitehurst, David GT; Lurås, Hilde; Rugkåsa, Jorun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background: Demand for healthcare outweighs available resources, making priority setting a critical issue. ‘Severity’ is a priority-setting criterion in many healthcare systems, including in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, ... -
Long term outcomes and causal modelling of compulsory inpatient and outpatient mental health care using Norwegian registry data: protocol for a controversies in psychiatry research project
Hofstad, Tore; Nyttingnes, Olav; Markussen, Simen; Johnsen, Erik; Killackey, Eoin; McDaid, David; Rinaldi, Miles; Dean, Kimberlie; Brinchmann, Beate; Douglas, Kevin Stewart; Gröning, Linda; Bjørkly, Stål Kapstø; Palmstierna, Tom Krisman Kule; Strømme, Maria Fagerbakke; Blindheim, Anne Alnes; Rugkåsa, Jorun; Hofmann, Bjørn Morten; Pedersen, Reidar; Widding-Havnerås, Tarjei; Rypdal, Knut; Mykletun, Arnstein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Objectives: Compulsory mental health care includes compulsory hospitalisation and outpatient commitment with medication treatment without consent. Uncertain evidence of the effects of compulsory care contributes to large ... -
Measuring the level of compulsory hospitalisation in mental health care: The performance of different measures across areas and over time
Hofstad, Tore; Rugkåsa, Jorun; Ose, Solveig Osborg; Nyttingnes, Olav; Husum, Tonje Lossius (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Objective: A variety of measures are used for reporting levels of compulsory psychiatric hospitalisation. This complicates comparisons between studies and makes it hard to establish the extent of geographic variation. We ... -
Out-patient commitment order use in Norway: incidence and prevalence rates, duration and use of mental health services from the Norwegian Outpatient Commitment Study
Riley, Henriette; Sharashova, Ekaterina; Rugkåsa, Jorun; Nyttingnes, Olav; Christensen, Tore Buer; Austegard, Ann-Torunn Andersen; Løvsletten, Anna Maria; Lau, Bjørn; Høyer, Georg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background Norway authorised out-patient commitment in 1961, but there is a lack of representative and complete data on the use of out-patient commitment orders. Aims To establish the incidence and prevalence rates on the ... -
Professionals’ perspectives on factors within primary mental health services that can affect pathways to involuntary psychiatric admissions
Wormdahl, Irene; Husum, Tonje Lossius; Rugkåsa, Jorun; Rise, Marit B. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Reducing involuntary psychiatric admissions has been on the international human rights and health policy agenda for years. Despite the last decades’ shift towards more services for adults with severe mental ... -
Psychometric validation of a multidimensional capability instrument for outcome measurement in mental health research (OxCAP-MH)
Vergunst, Francis; Jenkinson, Crispin; Burns, Tom; Anand, Paul; Gray, Alastair; Rugkåsa, Jorun; Simon, Judit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are widely used in mental healthcare research for quality of life assessment but most fail to capture the breadth of health and non-health domains that can be impacted. We report ... -
Quality of life and service satisfaction in outpatients with severe or non-severe mental illness diagnoses
Ådnanes, Marian; Kalseth, Jorid; Ose, Solveig Osborg; Ruud, Torleif; Rugkåsa, Jorun; Puntis, Stephen Robert (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Purpose Our study investigated quality of life (QoL) in patients with severe or non-severe mental illness diagnoses (SMI and non-SMI) and the association between QoL and service satisfaction measured as patients’ perception ... -
The relationship between area levels of involuntary psychiatric care and patient outcomes: a longitudinal national register study from Norway
Nyttingnes, Olav; Saltyte Benth, Jurate; Hofstad, Tore; Rugkåsa, Jorun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background: Mental health legislation permits involuntary care of patients with severe mental disorders who meet set legal criteria. The Norwegian Mental Health Act assumes this will improve health and reduce risk of ... -
Service Characteristics and Geographical Variation in Compulsory Hospitalisation: An Exploratory Random Effects Within–Between Analysis of Norwegian Municipalities, 2015–2018
Hofstad, Tore; Rugkåsa, Jorun; Ose, Solveig Osborg; Nyttingnes, Olav; Kjus, Solveig Helene Høymork; Husum, Tonje Lossius (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background: Compulsory hospitalisation in mental healthcare is contested. For ethical and legal reasons, it should only be used as a last resort. Geographical variation could indicate that some areas employ compulsory ...